Collection The History Thread

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A U.S. soldier is demonstrating DDT-hand spraying equipment while applying the insecticide

 

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An East German soldier helps a young boy cross the barbed wire which was a marker for where the Berlin wall would soon be built. The guard was caught and immediately punished on August 15, 1961

 

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During the Vietnam War an AP photographer captures a napalm strike near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam in 1966

 

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A late nineteenth century photo of the partially excavated Great Sphinx of Giza, with the Pyramid of Khafre (left) and the Great Pyramid of Giza (right) behind it

 

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Soviet tank ramming into hotel Radnice in Liberec, during Warsaw pact invasion into Czechoslovakia 21. August 1968

 

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A Japanese torpedo bomber goes down in flames after a direct hit by 5-inch shells from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, on October 25, 1944

 

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British soldier protecting himself from the rain under turned over tank, Italy, 1944

 

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Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other revolutionaries, marching through the streets, 1960

 

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A lone man refusing to do the "Sieg Heil" salute at the launching of the Horst Wessell in Nazi Germany, 1936

 

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London's Arsenal Stadium in 1951

 

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A car drives through the Dust Bowl, Texas, 1936

 

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Police Officer Charlie Walker holds the corpse of a cobra, one of about a dozen killed or captured during the "Cobra Scare" of 1953 in Springfield, MO

 

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German soldiers fulfilling their need for speed sometime during WW2

 

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Workman, perched on the end of a beam, bolting together the framework of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1930

 

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Queen Mary with Princess Mary, the Princess Royal being driven across rough ground in a tracked car. Circa 1920

 

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Ted Kennedy undergoing physical therapy after being involved in a plane crash in which one of his aides and the pilot were killed. Massachusetts. 1964

 

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People climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza, c. 1885

 

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Aerial photograph of Utah beach during the Normandy Invasion. June 6, 1944

 

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The aftermath of World War II. A shop window in London. 1946

 

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Kid watching I Have A Dream Speech. Aug. 28, 1963