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  2. Qahtaniyah bombings - Wikipedia

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    The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), in northern Iraq. 796 people were killed and at least 1,500 others were wounded, [1] [2] [3] making it the Iraq War's deadliest car bomb

  3. The Boy Standing by the Crematory - Wikipedia

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    The boy standing by the crematory (1945). This is the original version of the photo, which was flipped horizontally in O'Donnell's reproduction. [1]The Boy Standing by the Crematory (alternatively The Standing Boy of Nagasaki) is a historic photograph taken in Nagasaki, Japan, in October of 1945, shortly after the atomic bombing of that city on August 9, 1945.

  4. The Hiroshima Panels - Wikipedia

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    Dying lovers embrace and mothers cradling their dead children. Each painting portrays the inhumanity, brutality, and hopelessness of war, and the cruelty of bombing civilians. [2] The people depicted in the paintings are not only Japanese citizens but also Korean residents and American POWs who suffered or died in the atomic bombings as well ...

  5. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    The dead body of Benito Mussolini next to his mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in, in Piazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians a year earlier after executing them in retaliation for resistance activity. [s 2] Raising a Flag over the Reichstag

  6. List of massacres in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Mitsubishi bombing: Tokyo East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front: 8 Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi. Eight killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities. 6 November 1975: 1975 Aki shooting: Aki, Kōchi Prefecture: Ikuya Hatakeyama 6

  7. List of major terrorist incidents - Wikipedia

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    February 2016 Sayyidah Zaynab bombings: Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and later launched two suicide bombings, about 400 meters from Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque, a Shi'ite shrine, believed to contain the grave of Islamic prophet Muhammad's granddaughter. 83 to 134 people were killed and 180 wounded, including children. Syrian media ...

  8. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.

  9. Hiroshima Maidens - Wikipedia

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    The atomic bombing of Hiroshima. On 6 August 1945, an American plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. [1] Survivors of the bombing called themselves hibakusha. Numerous people experienced deep flash burns from heat rays, as well as hair loss and purpura from the radiation. [2] Many of the flash burns developed into keloid scars. [3]