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Rick Steves: "Here I am, heading off to Europe the day after high school graduation in 1973 — with a budget of $3 a day, a ten-week Eurail pass in my pocket, and the biggest backpack I could find, jam-packed. I came home with no money, a malnourished body, and an enduring love of Europe."
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German refugees cross a destroyed bridge. Elbe River, Germany, May 1, 1945.
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Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq March 31, 2003
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Little girl stares towards the hands of a woman preparing the polio vaccine, 1955.
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Field marshal Bernard Montgomery walking with decorated Soviet Marshals in front of the Brandenburg Gate, shortly after the Battle of Berlin. (1945)
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"Out of the Ruins" September 11 and the Rise of Mass Surveillance, 2006
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In 1920 in England, Mary Ann Bevan entered the “ Ugliest Woman in the World ” contest after developing acromegaly and losing her husband, doing it simply to put food on the table for her kids
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie minutes before their assasination that would ingnite WW1, June 28,1914
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7-year-old Drew Barrymore casually removes her fake teeth on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson while promoting E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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A US soldier rests in what used to be Saddam’s chair under a painting of Uday playing with a tiger, watched by his parents Saddam and Sajeda, April 2003.
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Civil war veteran poses with his grandchildren, circa 1880. Cabinet card
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