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A dirt road in the Alabama Hills of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The road leads to Mount Whitney and Lone Pine Peak. (Photo by Mimi Ditchie Photography/Getty Images)

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My favourite place: California, USA

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Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

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Sheet music.

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Maya Angelou was “the ultimate boundary-breaker”, says Naga Munchetty. (Photo by Craig Herndon/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

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A 1954 advertisement for Cooper's Y-Front. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Empire State building

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President Ronald Reagan at Durenberger Republican convention rally, 1982. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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An illustration of Victoria Woodhull addressing a congressional committee on the benefits of women's suffrage, 1871. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Aquatic Centre Ferry Dock, Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Mario Lanza c1950. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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John F Kennedy pictured in 1957

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Photo of female cyclist in 1885

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Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

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