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"The Soiling of Old Glory", Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of civil rights protestor Ted Landsmark being assaulted with US flag during anti school desegregation protests in Boston on April 5, 1976. The image was featured in the opening scene of the film "The Departed".

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After being evacuated from Dunkirk, British troops aboard a destroyer arrive at Dover, May 1940

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Corpses of Waffen-SS soldiers fallen at the Third Battle of Kharkov, 1943.

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A naked protestor taunts a police water cannon during riots outside the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001.

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U.S. Eighth Air Force B-17s on a bombing run over Donauwörth, Germany. April, 1945

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Actors Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo playing their Gameboys on a break from filming the Super Mario Bros. movie in North Carolina, c. 1992

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Pele and President Gerald Ford play with a soccer ball in the Rose Guard, White House, 1975

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Lieut. John F. Kennedy (age 26) with his crew aboard Patrol Torpedo Boat 109 near the Solomon Islands. Sunk by a Japanese destroyer on August 2, 1943, 2 crewmen died. JFK and his crew swam for 5 hours to a deserted island. They were rescued 3 days later, after swimming to a larger island.

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The Real Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, 1990.

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City of Detroit back in its prime, Circa 1940s. Once the wealthiest city in the world, its decline was cemented when automobile companies began their exodus in favor of foreign manufacturing, that promised cheaper labor

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The first image of the Earth from lunar orbit, as it was received by NASA and presented to the public, 1966.

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Shackleton’s ship Endurance, Antarctica, August 27, 1915. Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, as it lay locked in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, where it finally sank. Photo by Frank Hurley -

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