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Helen Keller teaching a girl sign language. Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. In 1904 she became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree ( 1907)

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Members of the Japanese "Marxist Youth League" in a protest, 1970s.

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PHOTO-COLORED. Bellevue Hospital circa 1896 New York 2400x2031

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A messenger dog leaps over a German trench during World War One, 1915

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Al Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait, 1991. Photo by Steve McCurry.

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Vietnam founder and former leader, Hồ Chí Minh, meets North Korea's founder and former leader, Kim Il-Sung. February, 1957, Hanoi, North Vietnam.

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Chained indigenous "workers" of Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co., photographed by Roger Casement and published in his 1913 report.

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A group of hippies recovering bags of marijuana from the frozen Lower Merced Pass Lake in Yosemite National Park, which fell from a crashed smuggler's plane. January 1977.

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A wounded German prisoner of war (POW) is given a drink of water at a U.S. medical center in Altavilla, Italy. 20 September, 1943

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Madame Marzella and her trained parrots - performing on the Tivoli Circuit in Sydney, Australia, circa 1890.

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A rescue dog takes a needed break as FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue teams search for survivors amongst the wreckage of the World Trade Center. September 21, 2001

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