A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint
Tuesday 31 May 2016
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Charles Godefroy flies his biplane through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on August 7th, 1919.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.
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Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.
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British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.
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Back in 1956, a PanAm plane was needed to to transport a 5 MB hard drive.
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. Elephants know how to have fun. Just ask Queenie, the first one to water surf (circa 1950).
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The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!
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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
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The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.
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The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.
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A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941
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Known as Little Nap, the “Napoleon of the Chimpanzee World”, this chimp became a popular tourist attraction (1915).
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Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
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You won’t see this at the zoo anymore: The only known photo of a living Quagga at the London Zoo (1870).
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A Sikh soldier of the British Indian Army fits a gas mask to a mule (circa 1939 – 1945).
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The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, ca. 1927
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A priest praying over the victims of the Titanic (1912).
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Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan, ca. 1944
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Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964
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Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
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Several
battalions of Gurkhas stripped to the waist, as they arrive in
Singapore on Sep. 21, 1941 to join other British troops stationed there.
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Two Sikh soldiers from the Indian Army using a Bren light machine gun in the Italian campaign near Villa Grande, 15 January 1944
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1.7
million men and women of the British Indian Army died during the two
World Wars. There are 23,000 cemeteries, memorials and other locations
worldwide ..
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A Muslim member of the Indian Army Services Corps at Dunkirk, 1940
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The
2/5th Royal Gurkha Rifles marching through Kure soon after their
arrival in Japan in May 1946 as part of the Allied forces of occupation
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Sherman tank of the 9th Royal Deccan Horse, 255th Indian Tank Brigade, Burma 1945
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This
photograph was found among Japanese records, when British troops
re-entered Singapore. This picture shows the inhumane brutality
practiced by the ...
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5th Division soldier guards Japanese prisoners in Singapore September 1945
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Four wounded Indian soldiers convalescing in a hospital in Brighton, 1915.
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The 15th Sikh Regiment arrive in Marseille, France on their way to fight the Germans during the First World War.
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Troops of the Indian National Army who surrendered at Mount Popa. Circa April 1945.
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Indian soldiers entertain onlookers with traditional songs and music during their lunch hour in London on May 27, 1940
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circa 1940: The University Training Corps in Lahore, India, learning to shoot.
Sunday 29 May 2016
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12) Indian infantrymen training for receiving a gas attack, 1915.
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