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“It Will Kill Us All”: Inside the 1950s’ Most Dangerous Road Race

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The Mona Lisa’s One and Only Visit to America

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When the Movies Got Smaller

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Seeking Warmth During an Iceland Deployment

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Cheer Amid Wartime: Santa Visits Guadalcanal

Children wearing Fidel Castro beards and hats, playing in the woods in 1959.

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A True Passing Fad: Castro Caps for Children, 1959

Quarterbacks of the NFL in 1961: (back, L-R) Milt Plum, Bobby Layne, Sam Etcheverry, Bill Wade, Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Norm Snead, Zeke Bratkowski; (front, L-R) Jim Ninowski, Fran Tarkenton, Don Meredith, John Brodie, Sonny Jurgensen, Y.A. Tittle.

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How to Take a Group Portrait of 14 NFL Quarterbacks on Their Day Off

The gantry retracts while Saturn V boosters lift the Apollo 11 astronauts toward the moon, July 16, 1969.

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Apollo 11: What Liftoff Looked Like

French performers in first organized show for American troops after D-Day, Normandy, July 1944.

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After D-Day: The First Show for U.S. Troops in Normandy

Albert Einstein's office - just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it - taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955.

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The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story

Apollo 1 astronauts Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, 1967.

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The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee

LIFE With the Astrochimps: Early Stars of the Space Race

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Astrochimps: Early Stars of the Space Race

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