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An aerial photo of Tokyo after the one-night firebombing attack in WWII that killed an estimated 100,000 The firebombing of Tokyo, also known as the Tokyo…

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Eduard Bloch, an Austrian physician from Linz, occupies a peculiar niche in history. A Jew by heritage, Bloch treated a young Adolf Hitler and his family…

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Pu Yi, the last emperor of Qing Dynasty and the former head of Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II Puyi was only two…

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Children belonging to families of Stark and Schwartz, beet workers near Sterling, Colo. Family, including children, work from 5 A.M. to 6 P.M, with only half…

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Family with Their Covered Wagon During the Great Western Migration, in Loup Valley, Nebraska – 1886 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20,…

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Their story has been romanticized in Hollywood, immortalized in ballads, and dissected by historians. Bonnie and Clyde, two names forever intertwined with bank robberies, shootouts, and…

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Bamse, a Saint Bernard, was inducted as an official crew member of a Norwegian fighting ship during World War 2. The canine was known for breaking…

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In the late 1960s, the military demands of the Vietnam War meant that over 200,000 American men had to be drafted every year.  In 1969, the…

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A Monk Lived For 82 Years Without Seeing A Single Woman In His Entire Life. This article was published in an Athens newspaper on October 29th,…

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A British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914–18 The trenches of World War I, a grim but iconic aspect…