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Eight week old tiger cubs find that their keeper is very useful as a climbing post – 1937
Aftermath of the 1969 USS Enterprise disaster: A rocket misfired from a F-4 Phantom killed 28; 15 aircraft destroyed
USS Essex (CV-9) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, October 1945.
USS Hornet (CV 8) was sunk during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Oct 1942.
Soviet snipers moving amongst ruined buildings in Stalingrad Russia 1 Dec 1942
12 snipers from the Soviet 3rd Shock Army with a total of 775 kills.
This is a brilliant and rare image of British Bluecoats from HMS Alacrity carrying Lee Enfield rifles China during the Boxer rebellion 1900
Boxer Gus Waldorf versus a bear! He lost the match but gained lifetime infamy (1949).
Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky on the Soviet Writers Congress 1934.
Woman with books, c. 1940s.
