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Frederick Douglass in his early-twenties, c. 1847 by Samuel J. Miller.
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Bessie Wallis Warfield's (future Duchess of Windsor) first wedding, 1916. She doesn't look especially happy.
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Mary McLeod Bethune with girls from the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, Florida, ca. 1905.
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Clara Zetkin (left) and Rosa Luxemburg (right) in a 1910 picture.
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John T. Ford, manager of Ford’s Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was shot, and a good friend of the actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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Selma Lagerlöf, first female to win the nobel price
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Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.On October 21, 1942, he was flying from Hawaii to the South Pacific when his plane ditched into the ocean. In the rush to evacuate, the 8 on board neglected to secure food supplies—leaving them in 3 life rafts with some chocolate, four oranges, and some fishing hooks and line. Rickenbacker took charge, lashing the three rafts together. He and his seven men broiled on the open seas, their parched skin cracked and bleeding. They were eventually rescued after 24 days.
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Sam Pryor Fascinating guy and one of America's top aces in WWI. Here's a squib from Wikipedia: American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation, particularly as the longtime head of Eastern Air Lines.
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night…the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” --Chief Crowfoot of the Blackfoot Confederation, 1890. Quoted from “In Search of Darkness” by Holly Haworth in the new Spring 2012 issue: “Burning World.” From parabola-magazine.
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joseph campbell "the hero with a thousand faces"
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Malcom and Muhammad Ali and their little ones...
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Washington, D.C., 1916. "Convention of former slaves. Annie Parram, age 104; Anna Angales, age 105; Elizabeth Berkeley, 125; Sadie Thompson, 110." Remarkable women to whom life should have been kinder.
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Patti Parker wow!!!
1902. "Detroit Photographic Co. Special (William Henry Jackson seated at table in Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad car)."
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Grand Duchess of Russia Maria and her brother Tzarevitch Alexei
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Titanic Survivors Louis & Lola (last name unknown) April, 1912
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‘Wild Joe’ O’Carroll, Head of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or the Wobblies, 1919, photo by Margrethe Mather
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Walter Breuning died in 2011, last American born before 1900. Sept. 21, 1896 - April 14, 2011
Nine year old future Queen Mum, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, posing with fan during a dancing lesson at the ancestral Glamis Castle. Forfarshire, Scotland, 1909.
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Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) Aviatrix, journalist and screenwriter Circa 1911
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Repin, Ilya (1844-1930) - 1896 Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II (Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle, 1780 - 1866
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Alice Pleasance Liddell ; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, whose protagonist Alice was named after her.
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Adam Clark Vroman Ah-del-stohne (Straight Shooter), Navajo) 1903
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Diane Rombough An expression of knowing?