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Fidel Castro laughing at a newspaper headline while visiting New York in 1959 [634×674]

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Construction of USS Shenandoah (ZR 1) at Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 29 May 1923.

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Actress Bea Arthur when she was in the US Marine Corps, 1943 [400×515]

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Front view of Nellie, experimental, 130 ton, British underground tank. Intended to advance on enemy positions at 0.5 mph at the bottom of a trench that it itself was digging. July 1941

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Silhouette of the Titanic at Queenstown on her maiden voyage, 1912. [900 x 695]

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Einstein drops the Wings of Pacifism and raise the Sword of preparedness against an increasingly hostile Germany, circa 1933.

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  • The opening ceremony at the first (modern) Olympic Games – Athens, Greece 1896 [640×427]

The opening ceremony at the first (modern) Olympic Games – Athens, Greece 1896 [640×427]

Posted On : January 15, 2020 Published By : AJ
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The Italian town of Recco before 1940 and in 1945. A small coastal town of 5,000 inhabitants in Liguria, east of Genoa, Recco was bombed 27 times owing to a strategically important railway viaduct (photo above). The viaduct was eventually destroyed, but so was 95 % of Recco. [798 x 1054]
“Save waste fats for explosives…” (United States Office of War Information, 1943)
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