Edén Pastora, aka Commander Zero, rides a bus with fellow Sandinista guerrillas on their way to the plane that would take them out of the country, after assaulting the National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua, and taking the entire Congress hostage. August 24, 1978.[687×1024]

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Ellenton, SC in 1950 just before the town was razed in order to construct the Savannah River Plant. [1024×818]

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U.S. Army technician Alvin Harley of the 9th Armored Division receives a kiss from a liberated little French girl on Saint Valentine’s Day. Abancourt, Oise, Picardy, France. 14 February 1945 [419 x 600]

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This is widely believed to be the last ever photo taken of a Barbary Lion (a species now extinct). The picture was taken from on board a Casablanca-Dacar flight in 1925. Barbary Lions were among the largest lions ever, and were famously used for entertainment/fights in Gladiator Arenas. [850×514]

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50 years ago today, the Apollo Astronauts returned to Earth. Here they’re quarantined as part of the post-flight procedure with President Richard M. Nixon looking on. – July, 24 1969 [1280×960]

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The construction of the armored train of the Red Army at the plant of the January Uprising in Odessa, Ukraine, USSR. Soviet workers assemble sheets of armor steel on a steam locomotive. 1941. [1536 × 1053]

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