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A young man uses a makeshift raft to cross the flooded street in front of Hankou City Hall in Hankou, China, in 1931. This was during the devastating Yangtze River floods that lasted for 5 months in 1931. The flooding was so bad, it is generally considered the worst natural disaster in history, as anywhere from 145,000 to 4 million people died as a result. Most experts agree more than 1 million died, but exact numbers were never counted.

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Children play as if totally oblivious to their surroundings in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1982. This area had already been damaged in the fighting in the Lebanon War, and would be center of more fighting ahead as Beirut became the focal point of most of the 3 year war.

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A policeman training police dogs in Warsaw, Poland in 1929.

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The Statue of Liberty being constructed in Paris, France in 1878. Most people don't know this but the French offered, financed, and paid to build the statue and then gifted it to the US, who only paid for the base on which it stands. Another interesting note, Gustave Eiffel, who built the world famous Eiffel Tower, also assisted in The Statue of Liberty's construction.

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Children dressed up for Easter Sunday in Chicago, US in 1941.

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Dar al-hannan schools girls taking a break in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1980. The religious restrictions on women worked itself into government and eventually into law in the decade to come, changing Saudi Arabian women to the heavily covered look most of us recognize today.

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2 Women caught in a bad dust cloud that swept into Mexico City, Mexico in 1957.

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A stadium hosts 20,000 supporters during a Nazi rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1938.

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A police woman plays duck duck goose with children in Harlem, NYC, New York, US in 1978.

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Mary "Bonnie" Baker goes to catch a ball that was just a bit inside during an All-American Girls Baseball League game in 1943. The batter is unnamed, but clearly has some impressive dodging skills.

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A family of acrobats perform on a street in Berlin, Germany in 1920.

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American chorus girl and an artists' model Evelyn Nesbit posing in one of her early shoots at age 16 in 1901. She also did a little acting, but was well known for he likeness being used in newspapers, advertisements, on posters, fine china, and much more. In fact, she seemed to have her face everywhere at the turn of the century.

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Teddy Boys and Girls in London, England in 1952. The name derived from wearing clothes that were partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period (early 1900s). Colors and patterns could also signify a gang or group the youths would be affiliated with.

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Men and women alike stand in line at a polling booth in Auckland, New Zealand in 1899. New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote in 1893.

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Happy Cuban refugees applaud after receiving an announcement saying they are staying in the US while in a camp in Miami in 1980.

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Military members starting to use attack dogs on a crowd in order to disperse them during the Riots in Cape Town, South Africa in 1976.

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A boy cries near the bodies of his family who were murdered during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.