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Thailand

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Namibia

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Japan

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Bangladesh

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Norway

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Peru

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Brazil

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Ethiopia

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An anti-communist revolutionary holds a Molotov cocktail behind his back during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Hungary, Summer 1939

Hungary

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Armenian_village_guards_from_Nagorno_Karabakh_(1918-1921).

Armenia

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These family affairs provided a lot of great photos in the early 1900s. This photo from 1914 from the State Library of Queensland is a great example!

Australia

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Cambodia

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Canada

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Últimas palabras de Salvador Allende

Chile

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1900 Soldiers (in order) Britain - USA - Australia - India - Germany - France - Austria - Italy - Japan
Sun Yaoting, the last surviving Eunuch from the Qing Dynasty who died in 1996. They don’t need eunuchs anymore!” However, Sun didn’t see it that way. He was inspired by a eunuch in his village that became rich and he chose to be a eunuch himself.

China

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Congo

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Castro (far left) and Guevara (center) march arm-in-arm with Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, the president of Cuba from 1959 to 1976.
Cuban president Fulgencio Batista meeting with US president Dwight D. Eisenhower in Panama in 1956. The US at this time fully supported Batista despite his Fascist regime killing up to 200,000 Cubans and imprisoning many others during his time in power. Fidel Castro would oust Batista in 1959. Since Batista had amassed a huge fortune, he fled instead of continuing the fight after it turned against him (even the US pulled its support) and lived comfortably in Portugal for the rest of his life.

Cuba

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A large group of customers in California gathers in an electronics department to watch as President Kennedy delivers a televised address to the nation on the the Cuban missile crisis.

Cuban Missile Crisis

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"Can you see anything?" "Yes, wonderful things!" 1st people to discover King Tut's tomb. - Howard Carter expedition, 1922

Egypt

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Suez Crisis

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France

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Germany

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West Germans bring food and drink to East German border guards after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on 10 November 1989.

Berlin Wall

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Catholic Cathedral above Robinson Rd,Hong Kong in 1946.

Hong Kong

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India

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