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Annie Edson Taylor poses with her cat and the barrel she rode over the fall, 1901.
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President John F. Kennedy and former president Dwight Eisenhower at Camp David discussing the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, April 22, 1961. The photo, taken at the moment photographers were told "no more photos", was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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Victims of the Zoot Suit Riots, where groups of U.S. servicemen scoured the streets in Los Angeles looking for, attacking and stripping Mexican-American teenagers wearing zoot suits. June, 1943
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Photo taken the instant bullets from a French firing squad hit a Frenchman who collaborated with the Germans. Rennes, France. November 21, 1944.
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Canadian soldiers in a Landing Craft Assault (LCA) going ashore from HMCS Prince Henry off the Normandy beachhead. France, June 6, 1944.
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Jonathan (tortoise on the left) eating on a grass field in Plantation House, St. Helena (c. 1882 - 1886). Jonathan is still alive to this day.
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Nelson Mandela sparring with professional boxer Jerry Moloi, Soweto, 1957.
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Soldiers of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment storm Juno Beach during the Allied landing. Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France, June 6, 1944.
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Polish woman and her grandchildren shown in an American Red Cross evacuation camp as they await evacuation to new homes, Teheran, Iran 1943
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