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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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My dad, center, flanked by his brothers on his wedding day (1947) and his 25th wedding anniversary (1972)

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Saddam Hussein and his half-brother at their trial, 2004-2005.

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They shall not grow old": two South Vietnamese child soldiers sharing a smoke as they wait for a coming North Vietnamese attack, Vietnam war, 1965-1975

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My grandma and grandpa, 1955

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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein praying to Meccah at dusk outside the city of Samarra, 1998. Saddam's regime became increasingly Islamic throughout the 1990's. (1578x1043)

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Portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin thrown in garbage cans, Berlin (Hellersdorf), 1991

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The body of Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of Teddy Roosevelt, lies next to his Nieuport 28. A pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron, Roosevelt was killed on July 14, 1918 when he was struck in the head by machine gun fire during a dogfight. The Germans buried him with full military honors.

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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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