45 Powerful Photographs From Around the World
Matt Arone
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05/17/2018
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A collection of poignant pictures that are worth way more than a thousand words.
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Crowds gather at the Berlin Wall, November 1989. -
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Apollo 11 crew members capture mankind's first physical brush with the moon, July 1969. -
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Family members embrace in the wake of a devastating Alabama tornado, March 2012. -
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The nail scratches of Auschwitz Concentration camp inmates. -
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Thích Quảng Đức lights himself on fire in protest of South Vietnam's Diem government, June 1963. -
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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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78-year-old Bill Iffrig lies on the ground following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. -
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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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The Bolivian government poses with the corpse of revolutionary Che Guevara, 1967. -
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Christians and Muslims hold hands in solidarity during the Cairo uprisings, January 2011. -
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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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Astronaut William Anders takes "Earthrise" during the Apollo 8 mission, 1968. -
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Timothy O'Sullivan's "Harvest of Death" features dead Union soldiers strewn about the Gettysburg battlefield, 1863. -
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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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Helen Keller meets president Eisenhower, 1955. -
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Retired police captain Ray Lewis is arrested at an Occupy Wall Street protest, November 2011. -
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The Hindenburg zeppelin catches fire on May 6, 1937 -
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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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A Chinese man stands defiantly before tanks in Tiananmen Square, June 1989. -
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Akan Ito cries among the rubble of Natori, Japan. A 2011 tsunami tore the town apart. -
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John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father at JFK's state funeral, November 1963. -
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"How Life Begins" is one of the first pictures taken with the endoscope, 1965. -
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14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio cries before recently deceased Jeffrey Miller moments after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings, 1970. -
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Robert Capa immortalizes the treatment of French women who were believed to have been Nazi collaborators during liberation "ugly carnivals" in France, 1944. -
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A missionary holds hands with a starving boy in Karamoja district, Uganda, 1980. -
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A Russian veteran weeps before a Soviet tank used during World War Two. -
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Robert Capa captures a soldier emerging from the waters on D-Day. -
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Obama, Clinton, Biden watch live footage of Navy Seals storming Osama Bin Laden's compound, May 2011. -
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Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated JFK, November 1963. -
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Pearl Harbor survivor embraces a fellow veteran (from the War in Iraq), July 2004. -
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Bobby Moore embraces Pele at the 1970 World Cup finals. -
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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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A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya, 1994. -
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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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NASA's Mars Rover presents the world with a vision of Mars at dusk, May 2005. -
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An Afghan man offers a US soldier tea near Kabul, Afghanistan, 2009. -
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Terri Gurrola reunites with her daughter after serving seven months in Iraq, 2007 -
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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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Influential Photographs: Robert Peraza weeps before the 9/11 memorial, 2011.
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