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Russia Rebuilds Her Power Plants: Though it is taking time Russia is steadily rebuilding her ruined power plants in the industrial Donets Basin which yields coal and iron. Photo shows the reconstruction of the Kurachkin Power Plant.

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Korea was under the sway of the Japanese for over 40 years. Two years ago Soviet Army troops fought their way into Northern Korea and liberated her people. Since then democratic…

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Photo shows: Korean girl students of the People's University. For the first time in the history of Korea her women have been given an opportunity to study at higher levels in…

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Photo shows: A Soviet hospital in Chinnampo. Korean people now enjoy skilled medical aid, well-equipped government hospitals function in towns. A medical department has been set up…

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Photo shows: School-girls dancing in a square of Phyongyang on the day of the elections to the Provisional People's Committee of Northern Korea.

Visit to the home of the rabbi of Chufut Kale. Favorite wife blushed agreeably at the entrance of the foreigners. Fascinated by the woman's elegant attire: Une robe de soie rayee dessinait une taille bien prise, que nul artifice etranger n'avait…

View of Russian soldiers resting at the side of the road. In peacetime, soldiers were tasked with public works projects. This group was building the road between Yalta and Alupka. Image date: 12 August 1837

Image from: A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken,…