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A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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Prospectors pan for gold in Siberia during the 19th century.

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Prospecting towns like Dawson boomed during the gold rush.

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American jazz singer Helen Forrest performing with trumpeter Harry James (1916-1983), c1945. (Photo by Metronome/Getty Images)

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Violence erupted in New Orleans, and white southerners killed and injured more than 100 freed slaves during a riot against reconstruction plans. (Image by Alamy)

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Slaves of Confederate Brigadier-General Thomas F Drayton at his cotton plantation in South Carolina during the American Civil War

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What were the Salem Witch Trials?

Abraham Lincoln (Photo by Library of Congress)

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Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

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Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

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Wrecked buildings in Los Angeles' South Central district following 1992 riots

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British ships on convoy duty in the North Atlantic

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Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

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View of the Norse Buildings, L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland. (Photo by Alamy)

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Peter Mayhew, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill, on-set of the film Star Wars

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Flying the flag: A sailor signals a merchant ship in the Thames Estuary, 1939. Allied maritime capacity was paramount in the final victory. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

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Hollow victory: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, attends Paris VE Day celebrations. But many faced privation and uncertainty as the war drew to a close. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A Wall Street speculator tries to sell his car to passersby

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John Wilkes Booth leans forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln as he watches a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C, in 1865.

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Astronauts being lifted from the Apollo 13 spacecraft after splashdown in the South Pacific,1970. (Photo by Alamy)

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American soldiers in Vietnam

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The US assault on Okinawa

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