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This 19 November 1969 file photo released by NASA shows Apollo 12 Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad standing by the US flag on the Moon. An Apollo / Saturn V space vehicle launched the Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr., commander, Richard F. Gordon, command module pilot, and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot from the Kennedy Space Center, on November 14, 1969, on the Apollo 12 United States second manned lunar landing mission. AFP PHOTO NASA / AFP PHOTO / NASA

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River ships moor in front the Russian White House in Moscow on August 21, 1991, to support Boris Yeltsin. Russia marks on August 19-22, 2011, the 20th anniversary of the abortive 1991 coup against then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Tanks rolled through Moscow towards the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic at the time, gathered his supporters after denouncing the coup from the roof of a tank, what resulted later a collapse of the Soviet empire. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV

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The Indian (L) and British flags are seen in front of the "Lunatic Express" as it crosses the Rift Valley (background) near Nakura 20 December 2001 during a commemoration trip from Mombasa to Kisumu to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the railway. On December 20, 1901, after more than a decade of planning and construction, the tracks of Uganda Railway, also known as the Lunatic Express, or the Iron Snake, which began at the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa finally reached Port Florence (now Kisumu), on shore of Lake Victoria. The human cost of this controversial 900 kilometer project undertaken despite vociferous opposition in Britain's parliament, was enormous. AFP PHOTO/Pedro UGARTE / AFP PHOTO / PEDRO UGARTE

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