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Russian linguist and decipher of the Mayan script Yuri Knorozov holding his cat Asya. He always listed Asya as his co-author, but the editors always removed her. He also always used this photo taken around 1980 as the author photo, and was annoyed when the editors cropped her out.
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Medical assistance to crew members of FedEx Flight 705 after a failed attempt to hijack and crash their plane. Auburn Calloway, armed with a hammer and a crossbow, tried to take over and crash the plane in such a way that compensation would be paid to his family. 7 April 1994
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Vapor trails from the dogfighting over St Paul's Cathedral in London during the Blitz, 1940.
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The effigy of the female cyclist hung by students protesting against granting female students full degrees in Cambridge. Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. May 21, 1897.
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Young woman kissing a departing paratrooper, Penn Station, NYC, 1943. (LIFE Magazine photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt)
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A German officer and an NCO wearing portable sound locating apparatus’s to detect enemy aircraft (this was a type of early radar). Western Front, 1917.
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Overhead view of the destruction in an Oklahoma City neighborhood after the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado. 4 May 1999
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The crew of an M4 Sherman "Killer" with their unusual war trophy, a Japanese Type 94 Tankette on Kwajalein Atoll, February 2nd 1944
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Shocked spectators in Jersey City watch as Tower 2 crumbles on September 11, 2001.
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Children in a Chinese orphanage tied to chairs with holes. The photo was taken during the secret production of a documentary about the fatal neglect of girls and disabled children during the One Child Policy. 1995
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Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division with a knocked out Tiger II of the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion. This Tiger was knocked out by a 90mm M36 Tank Destroyer of the 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion on the 8th January 1945 in the Ardennes in Belgium
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