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Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur meeting for the first time, 1945. Many Japanese were extremely offended by this picture because of how casual MacArthur is looking…
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Simo Hayha, The White Death in his winter camouflage, 1940 Simo Häyhä, also known as “The White Death,” was a Finnish sniper who is credited with…
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Children’s playground in 1912 If it seems like today’s kids have gotten “softer” compared to the kids decades ago, perhaps it’s because playgrounds have gotten softer…
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WW1 French trench raider, 1915 These soldiers would sneak out of their own trenches at night, often covering themselves in burn cork to darken their uniforms…
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In medieval Germany, husbands and wives could fight in a marital duel in order to legally settle their disputes. According to the manuscript, the husband was…
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Leaflet Dropped on Japanese Cities Right Before Atomic Bomb Was Dropped Through much of World War II, Allied bombers would sometimes drop leaflets warning of impending…
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Captain Lewis Nixon, a member of the “Band of Brothers” in the 101st Airborne Division’s Easy Company, is pictured here nursing a hangover after his company…
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The Baltic Way or Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom") was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined…
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Adelaide Springett in all her best clothes. Its said she was so ashamed at the state of her boots, she took them off for the photographs,…
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Union and Confederate veterans shake hands at Gettysburg in 1913 The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans for the…