We may read volumes upon volumes of history books and make our teachers proud. But there’s nothing more all-telling than real pictures that document wonders of the past. With Joseph Niepce’s camera obscura used in 1827, humans realized that capturing fleeting moments and preserving them was possible. And they never looked back.

This time, we are taking you on a heartfelt roller coaster that will take us back to the past. From the image of the nine kings of Europe photographed together for the first and only time to the snap of workers painting the Eiffel tower, these are one-of-a-kind moments.

In an unstaged manner, they reveal what genuinely made humans proud, moved them to tears, or left them heartbroken. Sometimes, the pics just show what kept them busy during the day. Fasten your seat belts, relax, and enjoy the time travel.

#1 Margaret Hamilton And The Handwritten Navigation Software She And Her Mit Team Produced For The Apollo Project, 1969

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#2 In 1969, When Black Americans Were Still Prevented From Swimming Alongside Whites, Mr. Rogers Decided To Invite Officer Clemmons To Join Him And Cool His Feet In A Pool, Breaking A Well-Known Color Barrier

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#3 Soldiers Returning Home From WWII, 1945

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#4 Statue Of David By Michelangelo, Encased In Bricks To Prevent Damage From Bombs, During World War 2

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#5 A German Soldier Returns Home Only To Find His Family No Longer There. Frankfurt, 1946

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#6 September 3, 1967: The Day Sweden Switched From Driving On The Left To The Right Side Of The Road

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#7 Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945

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#8 Young Queen Elizabeth As A Mechanic During WW2 (C. 1939)

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#9 May 20, 1910: The Nine Kings Of Europe Photographed Together For The First And Only Time

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#10 Workers Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1924

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#11 Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960)

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#12 “Human Fly” George Willig Scales The Exterior Of The World Trade Center’s South Tower In 1977. Completing The Climb In 3.5 Hours, He Was Arrested At The Top After Signing Several Autographs, And Was Fined $1.10 By The City – A Penny For Each Floor He Passed

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#13 A Man Arrested For Cross-Dressing Emerging From A Police Van, New York, 1939

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#14 Louis Armstrong Playing For His Wife, Egypt, 1961

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#15 Freddie Mercury With His Mother, 1947

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#16 A Hired Reader Reads To Cigar Makers Hard At Work In Cuban Cigar Factory (Ca. 1900-1910). Because Many Cigar Factory Employees Were Illiterate Lectors Were Hired To Read Novels, Poetry, Nonfiction Works, And Newspapers Determined By Consensus

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#17 An American Soldier Cradles A Wounded Japanese Boy And Shelters Him From The Rain In The Cockpit Of An Airplane During The Battle Of Saipan While Waiting To Transport The Youngster To A Field Hospital. July, 1944

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#18 Eniac: The First General-Purpose Digital Computer (C. 1947-1955)

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#19 Nuclear Explosion Less Than One Millisecond After Detonation (1952)

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#20 Into The Jaws Of Death, 6th Of June, 1944

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#21 Members Of Dutch Resistance Celebrate The News Of Adolf Hitler’s Death, April 1945

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#22 Inside Of An Airplane In 1930

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#23 Allied Soldiers Mock Hitler Atop His Balcony At The Reich Chancellery, 1945

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#24 The First Successful Flight By The Wright Brothers At Kitty Hawk, NC (1903)

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#25 Young Angela Merkel Having A Schnaps With Fishermen On The Island Of Rügen During Her First Mp Campain In Summer 1990

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#26 Charles Thompson Greets His New Classmates At Public School No. 27 In September 1954, Less Than Four Months After The Supreme Court Ruled That Racial Segregation Was Unconstitutional. Charles Was The Only African-American Child In The School. Photo By Richard Stacks For The Baltimore Sun

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#27 Albert Einstein, His Secretary Helen (Left), And Daughter Margaret (Right) Becoming U.S. Citizens To Avoid Returning To Nazi Germany, 1940

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#28 The Apollo 14 Landing Capsule (1971)

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#29 A Serbian Soldier Sleeps With His Father Who Came To Visit Him On The Front Line Near Belgrade, 1914/1915

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#30 Mobsters Hide Their Faces At Al Capone’s Trial 1931

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#31 7’3” (221cm) Jakob Nacken, The Tallest Nazi Soldier Ever Chatting With 5’3” (160cm) Canadian Corporal Bob Roberts After Surrendering To Him Near Calais, France In September Of 1944

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#32 Portrait Of Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen And His Wife, Fashion Illustrator Dagmar Cohn, 1947

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#33 A US Marine Gives A Cigarette To A Japanese Soldier Buried In The Sand. Iwo Jima, 1945

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#34 A Game Of Human Chess St Petersburg Then Leningrad Russia Circa 1924

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#35 When Nazis Asked Lepa Radic Who Were Her ‘Accomplices’ Before They Hanged Her She Responded: ‘You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.’ Young Serbian Girl Was Hanged At The Age Of 17 Near Gradiska In 1943. During The Battle Of Kozara, She Lost Her Father, Brother (15) And Her Uncle

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#36 Nintendo’s First Headquarters In Kyoto, Japan (1889)

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#37 Union And Confederate Soldiers Shaking Hands At The 1913 Gettysburg Reunion

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#38 The Walled City Of Kowloon (1989)

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#39 The Waiting Room Of Chicago’s Union Station (1943)

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#40 Rasputin And His Followers, 1914

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#41 German SS Guards, Exhausted From Their Forced Labour Clearing The Bodies Of The Dead At Bergen-Belsen, Are Allowed A Brief Rest By British Soldiers But Are Forced To Take It By Lying Face Down In One Of The Empty Mass Graves, 1945

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#42 A Policeman In San Francisco Scolds A Man For Not Wearing A Mask During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, 1918

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#43 Only One Of Two Photographs In Existence Of The Us Supreme Court In Session. Cameras Are Forbidden In The Supreme Court, But This Photograph Was Taken By A Young Woman Who Concealed Her Small Camera In Her Handbag, Cutting A Hole Through Which The Lens Peeped, 1937

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#44 Princess Diana Shakes Hands With An Aids Patient Without Gloves, 1991

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#45 The Imprint Of A Mitsubishi Kamikaze Zero Along The Side Of H.M.S Sussex. 1945

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#46 A French Women Welcomes An American Soldier Two Days After Liberation. Strasbourg, France, 22 November 1944

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#47 Russian Inmate Points An Identifying And Accusing Finger At A Nazi Guard Who Was Especially Cruel Towards The Prisoners In Buchenwald Camp

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#48 “Eyes Of Hate”, A Photograph Of Goebbels After He Finds Out His Photographer Was Jewish, Geneva , September 1933

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#49 What Is Now The Fully Developed Las Vegas Strip, 1955

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#50 Crowd In Times Square, New York City Celebrating The Surrender Of Germany, May 7th, 1945

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#51 Wedding Bands That Were Removed From Holocaust Victims Before They Were Executed

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#52 Construction Of The Golden Gate Bridge, Circa 1934

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#53 18-Year-Old Keshia Thomas Protects A Fallen Man, Believed To Be Associated With The Ku Klux Klan From An Angry Mob Of Anti-Clan Protestors. Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. 1996 By Mark Brunner

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#54 The Lottery Used By The Selective Service To Determine Who Would Be Drafted For Vietnam First. In Each Capsule Is A Day Of The Year, Determining The Order Of Draftees By Their Birthday. Washington D.C. 1969

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#55 Babies Who Lost Their Parents During The Vietnam War Being Airlifted Back To The United States For Adoption, 1975

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#56 A Soldier From The Hampshire Regiment Engulfed In Smoke During A Chemical Weapon Training Exercise, 1941

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#57 The Uniform Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand From 1914, Whose Assassination Triggered The Outbreak Of World War I

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#58 A Man Rides A Bus In Durban, Meant For White Passengers Only, In Resistance To South Africa’s Apartheid Policies, 1986

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#59 “The Drunk Basket.” In The 1960s, Bars In Istanbul Would Hire Someone To Carry Drunk People Back To Their Homes

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#60 Abraham Lincoln’s Hearse As It Passes An Ornamental Arch At 12th Street In Chicago, Il (1865)

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#61 New Map Of Europe Displayed Outside Philadelphia’s Independence Hall After WWI (1918)

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#62 Robert H. Goddard And His Invention, The First Liquid Rocket (1926)

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#63 Ham The Chimpanzee Preparing For His Mercury-Redstone 2 Test Flight, Conducted On January 31, 1961

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#64 Colored Photo Of Russian Peasant Girls (1909)

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#65 At 4:31 Am, An Unauthorized Photo Taken Of Stalin Inside Of The Kremlin Shows The Very Moment He Was Informed That Germany Had Began Their Invasion Of The Soviet Union. It Was Taken By Komsomolskaya Pravda, Editor In Chief. He Was Ordered To Destroy It, But Instead Saved It. June 22, 1941

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#66 New Yorkers Stop To Watch The “Seinfeld” Finale, Times Square, 1998

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#67 Soviet Peasants Listen To The Radio For The First Time, 1928

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#68 A Coca Cola Advertisement Made By Spreading Grains For Pigeons In Saint Mark’s Square, Venice, 1960

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#69 Fire And Fury: B-25s Are Pictured Flying Past Mount Vesuvius In Italy As Lava And Ash Spews From The Top Of The Volcano. The Eruption Killed 57 As It Destroyed The Village Of San Sebastiano And San Giorg In March 1944 While Allied Forces Were Battling For Supremacy In The Skies

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#70 An Anti-Communist Revolutionary Holds A Molotov Cocktail Behind His Back During The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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#71 Lyndon B. Johnson Yelling At The Pilots Of A Nearby Plane To Cut Their Engines So That John F. Kennedy Could Speak As Kennedy Is Seen Trying To Calm Him Down. Taken During The 1960 Presidential Campaign In Amarillo, Texas

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#72 David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility

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#73 Nikola Tesla, The Last Photo Ever Of The Famous Scientist, 1st Jan 1943

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#74 Incredible Photograph Of A German Soldier Going Against Direct Orders To Help A Young Boy Cross The Newly Formed Berlin Wall After Being Separated From His Family, 1961

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#75 Indian Soldiers Arriving In France, World War I, 1914

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#76 A Member Of The Ku Klux Klan Stands Behind A Police Officer For Protection, After A Mob Surrounded His Klan Rally In Austin Texas, 1983

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#77 A Nurse With A Sick Child During Smallpox Epidemic, Wrocław, Poland, 1963

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#78 Teenage Dating In Diner, 1950s, The States

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#79 Washington D.C The Morning After The Assassination Of Martin Luther King, 5 April 1968

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#80 Unit Control Desk Of The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, April 18, 1983

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#81 Arnold Schwarzenegger Seeing NYC For The First Time (1968)

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#82 “The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You”. June 5th, 1944. One Day Before D-Day

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#83 WWI. A Canadian Soldier Tries To Comfort A Little Belgian Baby, Who Was Hurt And Whose Mother Was Killed By An Artillery Shell. November 1918

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#84 Three Young Russian Women And A Little Girl Recently Liberated From A Slave-Labor Camp By The U.S. Army Lay Flowers At The Feet Of Four Dead American Soldiers, April 18, 1945, Hilden, Germany

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#85 Motel Manager James Brock Pours Muriatic Acid In The Monson Motor Lodge Swimming Pool, To Get Black Swimmers Out Of The Pool. June 18, 1964

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#86 Rosa Parks’s Booking Photo Following Her February 1956 Arrest

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#87 Black Man Going Into The ‘Colored’ Entrance Of A Mississippi Theater (C. 1939)

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#88 Nicholas II Of Russia With The Family (Left To Right): Olga, Maria, Nicholas II, Alexandra Fyodorovna, Anastasia, Alexei, And Tatiana. Livadiya, Crimea, 1913

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#89 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin Shows Off His Cathode Ray Television (1934)

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#90 The Fenelon Place Elevator, One Of The Shortest And Steepest Railroads In The World

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#91 The Old And New Alignments Of Pennsylvania Route 61 Following The Centralia Mine Fire

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#92 Ruth Lee, A Hostess At A Chinese Restaurant, Flies A Chinese Flag So She Isn’t Mistaken For Japanese When She Sunbathes On Her Days Off In Miami. Dec. 15, 1941

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#93 President George Hw Bush Gazes At The Capitol In Helicopter After Leaving Clinton Inauguration. 1992

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#94 John Lennon And Yoko Ono Bought A Large Billboard In Times Square In 1969 Declaring That ‘War Is Over If You Want It’

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#95 Pelé Takes A Break During The Filming Of Escape To Victory – In The Stadium Of A Jewish Team Filled With Nazi Flags In A Communist Country In 1981

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#96 JFK’s Funeral At The Capitol. November 1963

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#97 View Of Boston, The Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph Ever Taken. October 13th, 1860

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#98 Ruby Bridges, The First African-American To Attend A White Elementary School In The Deep South, 1960

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#99 Here Is How An Ukrainian Immigrant Celebrated Stalin’s Death, 1953

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#100 The Mcdonald Brothers In Front Of The Not Yet Opened First McDonald’s, November 1948, San Bernadino, CA

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#101 105mm Shells From An Allied Bombardment All Fired In A Single Day On German Lines, 1916

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#102 Earliest Known Photo Of Chernobyl Disaster, Taken By Powerplant’s Photographer, Dawn Of April 26th, 1986

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#103 Boy Standing In Front Of Fallen Statue Of Lenin, Ethiopia, 1991

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#104 18 Year-Old Muhammad Ali Stands Alone At The 1960 Rome Olympics

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#105 Hiroshima Before And After The Atomic Bombing On August 6th, 1945

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#106 Hitler Reacts To A Kiss From An Excited American Women At The 1936 Olympic Games

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#107 French Troops With War-Torn Flag, 1917

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#108 Soviet Citizens Look At The “Wall Of Sorrow”, Honoring The Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Killed By Stalinism. In 1988, The Soviet Government Allowed Information Regarding The Victims Of Stalin’s Great Purge To Become Public

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#109 A Woman Mourns After The Us Navy Downs An Iranian Passenger Jet On 3 July 1988, Carrying 290 Civilians Including 66 Children

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#110 Richard Nixon Waves Goodbye As He Boards A Helicopter After Resigning The Presidency Earlier That Day (Aug. 9, 1974)

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#111 The Cologne Cathedral Stands Amidst The Ruins Of The City After Allied Bombings (1944). The Cathedral Suffered Fourteen Direct Hits By Aerial Bombs During The War But Did Not Collapse

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#112 Fidel Castro Laughing At A Newspaper Headline While Visiting New York In 1959

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#113 Two Homeless Men Squat In The Shadow Of The Recently Completed World Trade Center In 1975…

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#114 The Guinness Brewery, Dublin, 1910

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#115 The First Public Demonstration Of A Computer Mouse, Graphical User Interface, Windowed Computing, Hypertext And Word Processing, 1968

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#116 Street Scene In Antwerp, Belgium, Showing Citizens Turning Out For Celebration A Few Hours After The Germans Surrendered And An End Of World War I. 11th November 1918

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#117 ‘big Nims’ Of The United States 3rd Battalion, 366th Infantry, Laughing At The Sight Of His Comrades With Gas Masks On, 1918

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#118 Soviet Soldiers, On Their Backs, Launch A Volley Of Bullets At Enemy Aircraft In June Of 1943

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