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King Gustav V on Sweden's National Commemoration Day
"Sweden's King Sees Commemoration Parade in Stockholm" Photo shows: King Gustav V,. 89-year-old Swedish-monarch photographed on Sweden's national Commemoration day in Stockholm. The King saluted a parade of athletes, students, scouts and other org...
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King Gustav of Sweden During the Traditional "Battle of Flowers" festival
"A King Has Fun" Nice, France: Now ninety-one years old, King Gustav of Sweden laughingly throws flowers during the traditional "Battle of Flowers" festival celebrated during the King's stay here. (27th March, 1949)
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King Gustav of Sweden Toasting a Fellow Guest at the Hotel d'Angleterre
"No Tennis This Year" Nice, France: For the first time in his 41 annual visits to the Riviera, King Gustav of Sweden discards his tennis racket in favour of a glass and toasts a fellow guest at the Hotel d'Angleterre. The King, now in his 91st yea...
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Pile of Driftwood Reminder of the Killing of More Than 4000 people.
this great pile of driftwood caught on a bridge in Longarone, Italy is a reminder of the disaster that occurred when a 300-ft high tidal wave gushed from the Vaiont Dam into the River Piaze Valley, wiping out half a dozen villages, including Laong...
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A test [...] and his assistant were killed when a twin-engined Varsity plane crashed on to a house in Gloucester recently. Three women in the house escaped, as did nearly 1,000 children in the nearby schools as the plane skimmed over the roof of t...
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The burnt-out tail section of the Czechoslovakian Ilyushin 18 airliner, which crashed near Casablanca after hitting a high-tension cable last week. The plane which was carrying 64 passengers and a crew of nine, had only one survivor, who was taken...
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Plane Gets Stuck in a Tree in France
When M. Bresse, a pilot from the Caen Aero Club in France went for a flip in the Piper-Club he did not imagine he would stay "up in the cloud" for so long as this. The unlucky pilot was stuck up the tree for some seven hours before the firemen of ...
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