#Polish runner Ewa Kłobukowska was the first #Olympian to have her achievements stripped for failing a gender test in 1967, although the test conducted in the #USSR stirred controversy. Photo December 1964

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The 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, #Alabama.

Soldiers removing the body of one of the students killed during the Ma'alot school massacre #Israel

A cable worker during the construction of the Empire State Building in New York City. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1930.

Two #Israeli M113 entering Beirut #Lebanon, 1982

The men of 2 7 Commando Squadron enjoying a beer, near Wewak, New #Guinea, early 1945

About 1930. North #Hollywood Foursquare church. Now Noho subway parking lot, Cumpston St near Lankershim Blvd.

Group of young women standing in front of the entrence to Station Mission. The sign above the door says: "Station Mission. Looking after traveling young women". Warsaw Main Railway Station, #Poland, December 1925.

Crew from a B-24 Liberator, of the 1586th Special Purpose Squadron - of the #Polish Air Force, within RAF Bomber Command - they returned from a supply drop to the Polish Home Army which was fighting in #German occupied-#Warsaw, c. August 1944

A dummy anti-aircraft battery complete with a dummy crew WW2

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." Napoleon Bonaparte Have a Nice Weekend

Allied war correspondents examining the couch in Adolf Hitler's bunker on which he is thought to have shot himself with his wife, Eva Braun, on April 30, 1945. The blood staining the arm of the couch is likely Hitler's.

Admiring each other's tractor. US M88A1 passing #German farmer, Operation REFORGER 1982

#Russian soldiers in a boxcar during the withdrawal following the end of the First Chechen War, 1996

#USSR pavilion, Expo #Montreal, 1967

#German-#American tavern owner John Schrank smiles with police. Sometime earlier, he attempted to assassinate former President Theodore Roosevelt. circa October 1912

A #German soldier lies dead as #Soviet troops rush forwards, 1945

Soldiers from the #Bulgarian Army in a trench with the #Ottoman city of Adrianople (Edirne) in the distance - waiting to commence an assault, during the Siege of Adrianople, c. November 3rd, 1912 - March 26th, 1913.

#Chinese authorities deploying tear gas against marchers protesting the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, June 4th, 1989