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Pigeons fly near a flame from the Taj Hotel hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen have stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said.
Source : AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade

Pigeons fly as firemen fight a blaze at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.  Source : AP Photo/Gautam Singh

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This photograph of a Japanese mother and child in the wreckage of Hiroshima was taken four months after the atomic bomb landed on the city in August of 1945. The bomb, dubbed “Little Boy,” released an explosion equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT on Hiroshima. The tail gunner of the B-29 that dropped the bomb described the devastation as “like bubbling molasses down there … the mushroom is spreading out … it’s like a peep into hell.”

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Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Source : National geographic

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Vietnam. As the second phase of operation “Thayer,” the 1st Air Cavalry Division (airmobile) is having operation”Irving” in the area 25 miles north of Qui Nhon which lies 400 miles north-northeast of Saigon. The 1st Air Cavalry was given the mission of clearing a mountain range where an estimated two battalions of North Vietnam regulars were supposed to be massing an attack on Hammond Airstrip. Troops of “A” Company, checking house during patrol., 10/06/1966
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A Soldier carries a wounded Iraqi child into the Charlie Medical Centre at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, 20th of March. The child is one of several Iraqis who were attacked guerilla forces in Western Iraq.
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The memorial of the ‘Lion of Kerala’ - Veera Pazhassi Raja - who
organized the guerilla warfare against the British East India
Company, is situated at Mananthavady. He was the king of the
Kottayam royal family of Malabar in Kerala, India during the
last decades of the 18th century.

He achieved the title Veera (brave) when he fought a guerilla war
against British occupation with the able help of his loyal Kurichiyar tribe.

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