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Bicycles

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  • 1964-2-22

Some of the several hundred bicycles abandoned at the Post and Telecommunication Stores due to the lack of spare parts.

Daily Mirror

Bodies in SLAF Hangar

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  • 1978-11-18

The bodies of 147 air crash victims wrapped in cloth and mats lying in a Sri Lanka Air Force hangar.

The Times of Ceylon Press

Body Sensors Attached to Astronaut Grissom

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  • 1961-7-26

Body Sensors attached to U.S. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom are examined by Project Mercury equipment specialist Joe W. Schmidt, at Cape Canaveral Florida. The electrodes adhesively attached to the pilot's body permit medical monitors to ascertain t...

Daily Mirror

Bombing of Dessye

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  • 1935-12-16

Actual pictures flown directly from Abyssinia. These photos of the bombing of the American Hospital at Dessye were brought by courier to Addis Ababa whence they were flown direct to Paris by Mr. Roland Falk, a London pilot. Mr. Falk flew part of ...

Planet News Ltd.

Boston Harbour Air Crash

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  • 1960-10-11

A water-logged tail-plane (at left) that tells the story of the Boston harbour air crash in the US. Sixty-two people were killed as the Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra hurtled to its doom. The 11 survivors were seriously injured. The crash was b...

The Times of Ceylon Press

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