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One of the bullets that struck Pope John Paul II on this day in 1981 was later encased in the crown of the image of Our Lady of Fatima in the Sanctuary of Fátima

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A lone man refusing to do the Nazi salute, 1936

August Landmesser, the man who folded his arms.
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Believing that having the right connections would help land him a job , Landmesser joined the Nazi Party in 1931.

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In 1934, Landmesser met Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman, and the two fell deeply in love.

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The first and only photo of the family, June 1938. Although it was forbidden for them to meet, they appeared together in public and put themselves at exceptional risk

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In June 1963 Thich Quang Duc a Buddhist monk burned himself to death in Saigon in protest against South Vietnam’s Government

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Stockholm 3 September 1967, during the night Sweden had changed from left-side traffic to right-side traffic

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There is also another family who claim that the man in the picture is the family member Gustav Wegert, who was also a worker there at the time and habitually refused to do the salute on religious grounds. When other said Heil Hitler, he would respond with Guten Tag. He also did not think it was Christian to be at a political rally on Sunday. Looking at the photos of Wegert, it could definitely be him as well.
 
Unfinished landmarks

Christ the Redeemer being built on a mountaintop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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The London Tower Bridge without a middle in 1892

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The Eiffel Tower

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The Empire State Building in 1931

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Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in front of the Czechoslovak Radio building, in central Prague, during the first day of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, on August 21, 1968.

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I’ve seen this same picture in a book I have on the subject… where’d you get it from?
 
The Public library of Cincinnati’s first bookmobile, circa 1927.

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A bookmobile in Accra, Ghana, 1950s.

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An impatient queue for a Dutch bookmobile.

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One of the earliest mobile libraries, the Warrington Mechanics’ Institution Perambulating Library, from The Illustrated London News, 1860.

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We used to have roadside library kiosks along all the main thoroughfares where you could sit down on a bench, pick a book from the pile on the sidewalk, and read. Then the booksellers abandoned the idea because people were stealing the books.
 
East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961.

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A chest X-ray in progress at Dr. Maxime Menard’s radiology department at the Cochin hospital in Paris, c 1914. Mendard would later lose his finger to side effects from operating the X-ray machine.

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A doctor wears protective clothing during an outbreak of plague in Manchuria c 1912

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Queen Elizabeth , then Princess Elizabeth , during World War 2 joined the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service and trained as a mechanic and driver .

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Edna Egbert fights with police as they try to prevent her from jumping off the second-story ledge of her home at 497 Dean Street in Brooklyn in 1942

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Men at the entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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Wow, that looks like another scene from a movie. I wonder what was happening in her life.
 
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