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82 year old tightrope walker Ivy Baldwin at Boulder Dam, Colorado, 1948.

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Old Man and the Wire: When an 82-Year-Old Walked The Tightrope

American Pvt. Joe Demler, photographed on the day that the notorious prison camp, Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, was liberated by Allied troops, spring 1945.

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The POW Who Lived: Joe Demler, WWII’s ‘Human Skeleton’

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