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1913. Baby Lady Bird Johnson with her Nurse Alice Tittle. It was Tittle who declared Claudia Alta Taylor "Purty as a Lady Bird" and the name stuck.

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Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller on their wedding day, 1956

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Two female New Orleans based airport employees hopped a cargo flight to Nicaragua in mid-1985 and inadvertently ended up in a CIA-supported Contra base camp.

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Widely considered the photo that changed the face of AIDS: A father comforts his son, David Kirby, on his deathbed in Ohio. Published in LIFE magazine, November 1990. Photo by Therese Frare.

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"My Ulster blood is my most priceless heritage..." Mural of U.S President James Buchanan, who was of Ulster-Scots heritage. Belfast, Northern Ireland (2005).

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My grandmother and grandfather with their new son (my dad) - England, 1945

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Officials in England examine fingerprints to check whether they match a bottle found next to the cot of a three-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered. Over 40,000 fingerprints, those of every single male in the town over the age of 15, were examined, in nearly three months, 1948 .

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A poor rural family standing at attention for RFK's funeral train, June 8, 1968

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A group of Teddy Boys hanging around Elephant and Castle, London, July 1955.

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7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From Alien, 1978.

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The Cross Was Not Heavy Enough by John Heartfield, 1933

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Croatian Ustaše soldiers pose with the severed head of a Serbian villager in Banja Luka, February 1942 (1418x2037)

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