41 Powerfully Poignant Photographs From All Around the World
Humanity's journey on Earth is rich with history. From remarkable discoveries to groundbreaking inventions and new technologies, as well as the tragic and somber events we've faced, history is brimming with captivating stories that shape our collective narrative.
If you're eager to explore the past, take a look at this collection of fascinating photos and intriguing moments—rare glimpses that often go unrecognized but deserve appreciation, after all some pictures that are worth way more than a thousand words.
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President Bush receives word of the September 11th attacks while visiting a Florida classroom.
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Bronze medal winner John Carlos raises a black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
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Family members pass Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at an Albania camp, March 1999.
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Dorothy Counts encounters adversity in 1956 as she makes her way to a recently integrated school in Charlotte, North Carolina. After days of harassment, she was forced to withdraw from the school.
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An Alabama man reunites with his pet following a devastating series of tornadoes, March 2012.
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8-year-old Christian Golczynski weeps at the funeral of his father, who died during the War in Iraq, March 2007.
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Retired police captain Ray Lewis is arrested at an Occupy Wall Street protest, November 2011.
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A South Korean man sheds a tear when parting ways with his North Korean relative, October 2010.
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Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear fitted bathing suits in 1907. She was later arrested for indecency.
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Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated JFK, November 1963.
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The 19th century graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband deny this Dutch cemetery the power of separating them.
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Connie Kopelov and Phyllis Siegel embrace after becoming the first gay couple married in Manhattan, 2011.
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A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier during a rehearsal for the Independence Day ceremony, July 2011.
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Terezka, a girl who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a picture of her Poland "home", December 1948.
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A four-month-old Japanese baby brings light to the March 2011 tsunami, which claimed thousands of lives.
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Horace Greasely confronts Heinrich Himmler in a 1940s German prisoner of war camp. In love with a German woman, Greasely escaped from the camp 200 times.
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