Well-known iconic photographs

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July 20, 1969; Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong working at an equipment storage area on the lunar module. This is one of the few photos that show Armstrong during the moonwalk.

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Perhaps the most heartbreaking image ever taken, Kevin Carter’s picture of a starving girl in Sudan, taken in 1993, sparked much controversy.

Carter would commit suicide a year after taking the photo, at the age of 33.

It is unknown if the girl in the image survived.

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This picture is thought to be the oldest wedding photograph in Britain. Taken in 1856, it shows maid Hannah Pratley marrying farmer George Taylor at a traditional ceremony in Cheltenham

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Mt St Helen’s in May of 1980. My home town got covered with about 1" of ash.

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Taking refuge in the London underground during the Blitz of London during WW2 .

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My dad used to tell me about this . He had been in the cinema on the previous evening .

A photo of the Cinema Rex in Antwerp after it was destroyed by a V2 rocket on December 13, 1944, which killed more than 600 people (including 296 allied soldiers). The highest death toll caused by any V2 rocket

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After Tropical Storm Hannah ripped through Haiti in 2008, a young boy rescues a pushchair .

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I thought the photo on page 16 of a ‘normal baby; properly dressed’ was telling.
 
In June 1963, Thích Quảng Đức lights himself on fire in protest of the oppressive Diem government in South Vietnam.

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This rare color photo of stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps carrying a wounded German.
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This photo of infantrymen of the 1st Australian Division in a dugout at Ypres.

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Cuban missile crisis prompted fallout shelters, safety drills and talk of Armageddon …

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The real Armageddon

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Har Megiddo, now renamed Tel Megiddo—the scene of many
battles in antiquity, a fortified hilltop in northern Israel
 
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I agree there. I forgot to mention that both the photos I posed above were take in Nov. 1917. You may have guessed that as I mentioned Ypres.
 
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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