Victorious British Soldiers resting after the Battle of St Quentin Canal, Northern France 1918

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On this day, 111 years ago, during World War I, enemy soldiers laid down their weapons, shared food and songs, and reminded the world of our shared humanity - the Christmas Truce of 1914.

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Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944

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“Forest Brothers” – post-war anti-Soviet partisans in the Baltic states

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Discovery of the Statue of Antinous at Delphi in 1894

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The Last Jew In Vinnitsa, 1941

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First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez (US Marine Corps) leads his platoon over the seawall during the Inchon Landings, September 1950. An iconic captured moment of the Korean War, Lopez would die in action just minutes later.

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A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, Serbia, 1914. [1080x839]

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Survivors of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare await emergency medical treatment in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, (1945)

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Soviet soldiers in Berlin in 1945 with the youngest Red Army soldier

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A US soldier guards a group of German prisoners of war captured on Omaha Beach: teenagers and old men. June 6, 1944.

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Eastern African Slaves to Arabia

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World War I Soldiers Paying Tribute To The 8 Million Donkeys, Horses, And Mules That Passed Away In The War