Race organizers attempted to stop Kathrine Switzer from competing in the Boston Marathon in 1967. She became the first woman to finish the race. [1200×805]
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Hiroshima, Japan, 1945: This shadow that seems almost drawn on the white of five steps, tells the last moments of a person. All that remains is the shadow caused by the flash of the atomic bomb that August 6th. [1503×1434]
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Winston Churchill firing a Thompson submachine gun during a military demonstration in the United Kingdom (1940) [1024×1024]
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Bozo the Clown having a smoke with the mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne c 1980.
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US soldiers taking pictures with an 2800 years old statue in the Iraq national museum. Iraq ,Baghdad 2004 [581x390]
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The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945 [1411x818]
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28-year-old Jenny Joseph posing for the Columbia Pictures logo in 1992 [3000x2000]
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Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson at Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4th, 1865. A drunken Johnson had earlier delivered one of the worst speeches in history[1284X1080].
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Troops of US 101st Airborne Division watching C-47 Skytrain aircraft delivering supplies to their unit, Bastogne, Belgium, 26 Dec 1944
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Muamar Gaddafi and 2 of his elite Bodyguards from the all -female "Amazonian Guard" in the early 2000s. [2084x2528]
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President Andrew Johnson at center during a banquet on his disastrous 1866 speaking tour, the Swing Around the Circle. To his right sits Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. To his left is General of the United States Army Ulysses S. Grant, the next President [1284X997].
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Irena Bobowska (1920-1942) Polish poet and member of Polish resistance. Disabled since childhood, she was tortured and sentenced to death by Germans. Her last words were: "Today you judge me, but one day you will be judged by somebody higher". She was guillotined. Poznań, Poland, 1938. [784x1024]
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15 year old Mary Vincent in 1978, spirit unbroken after she was brutally tortured by a Serial Killer who cut off both her arms and threw her off a 30 ft. Cliff. She packed her stumps with mud, climbed the cliff back up and walked for miles naked towards the nearest hospital. [816x1056]
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Orphaned Child-Soldier Hans Georg Henke after being captured by the allies in 1945. [1080x1157]
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Ingrid Bergman (1946) by portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh
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