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Union soldier Charles Merrill was saved from a musket ball by his Bible at the Battle of Chancellorsville. When he wrote to Lincoln about the incident, the President sent him a new Bible with his signature inside.

April 05, 2021

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Remembrance Day: Iconic photo of WWI veteran Joseph Ambrose, aka “Doughboy Joe”, at the Vietnam War Memorial dedication in 1982.

November 11, 2020

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Charlie Chaplin’s speech in “The Great Dictator” (1940), foreseeing many of the same issues 80 years later.

October 19, 2020

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British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss and 60 volunteers etched 9,000 silhouettes on a beach in Arromanches in 2013 to represent all those who died on D-Day.

October 03, 2020

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60 pairs of iron shoes line the Danube River in Budapest in memorial to the Jews who were forced to line up to be murdered by the Nazis during WWII

September 12, 2020

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Salvador Dali taking a stroll in Paris with his pet anteater

September 01, 2020

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Photograph of the only time Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met.

August 24, 2020

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The skull of a medieval soldier still in his chain mail, having died during the Battle of Visby in 1361.

August 19, 2020

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The Afghan girl at 12 and at 30.

June 21, 2020

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Ghosts of the Forgotten War: Statues belonging to the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.

June 17, 2020

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In her 90s, Czech woman Anežka Kašpárková passes time by painting on buildings in the village of Louka

June 12, 2020

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Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. At 19, he was just 4’8” (142cm). Because of a pituitary tumor, by age 33 he reached a height of 7’2” (218cm), and upon his death at 51 he grew to be 7’8” (234cm).

June 08, 2020

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A woman of the Hopi Native American tribe with a squash blossom whorl hairstyle, the traditional style for unmarried women of the tribe and later the inspiration for Princess Leia’s signature hairstyle.

June 06, 2020

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Manute Bol (7’6”) and Muggsy Bogues (5’3”). The tallest and shortest players in the NBA at the time.

June 06, 2020

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Nikola Tesla casually reading by the light of his Tesla Coil.

June 03, 2020

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A Ghost Ship created during the Amsterdam Light Festival.

June 03, 2020

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A direct hit from a kamikaze plane, unable to penetrate the hull of an American ship, off the coast of Okinawa, 1945.

June 03, 2020

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Ella Harper was born with a rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backwards. Because she preferred to walk on all fours, she was known as “Camel Girl” and appeared in traveling circus shows.

May 26, 2020

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