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| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg... |
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| Description: | A camel stands on the desert sands near Biskra, Algeria, as two men pause to face Mecca and pray. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1978 International Scout SS II pickup. Features color photograph of a man driving down a sand dune. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Stone displaying ancient writing. The rock was on the grounds of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Grounds. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Man on a TD-24 crawler tractor looks down over International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Internation... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Eugene and Magda Herzberger (at left) with friends in the Negev region of Israel. They pose near a camel held on a tether by a man, possibly of Bedouin des... |
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| Description: | A view of members of the Yaqui tribe after the execution of six men in Guaymas Mexico. Caption reads: "Yaquis after the execution, Guaymas, Mexico." |
| Date: | 07 1941 |
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| Description: | This portrait of CBS reporter Cecil Brown, then based in Rome, was taken during his tour of North Africa. It was later used as the cover illustration for h... |
| Date: | 04 1997 |
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| Description: | Arrest of Nukewatch demonstrators at a Nevada test site. |
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| Description: | Guests at the Cambelback Inn ride horses along a mountain pass. The trail is surrounded by foliage and cacti. |
| Date: | 12 30 1937 |
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| Description: | An Arab man plowing sand with a plow harnessed to a camel. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front is standing with a donkey under a tree. Two rifles are leaning against the tree. He is wearing a cap an... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A group of Algerian National Liberation Front members in camouflage wearing their helmets and uniforms are posing with their guns. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A group of Algerian National Liberation Front members gather outdoors. They are wearing fatigues, caps, and are holding rifles. Behind them are large bould... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A group of Algerian National Liberation Front members sitting watching another member holding a can and what appears to be a fuse. The men are dressed in f... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front members firing off their weapons into the desert. One man is crouching in front of another, while another man is watchin... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | View from inside of cave of an Algerian member for the National Liberation Front in the Algerian desert. He is wearing a turban, and in front of him restin... |
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