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Comic Sam Kinison

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Women wearing unrationed shoe soles during the war

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A still from a 1960 film about the Alamo, showing the chapel being covered by troops

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Remember the Alamo! What happened in the 1836 siege and battle?

Picture of children being put to bed

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A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

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Britain at war over Vietnam. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Grand National Union Banner depicting president Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Andrew Johnson

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A Kamikaze pilot scores a direct hit on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean, c1942. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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A painting in the cave of Altamira, Spain

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Photo of the American flag

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Q&AWhy do we say 'saved by the bell'?

A still from the set of 'Westward the Women', directed by William A Wellman. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Georgian

Q&AWas Thomas Jefferson an atheist?

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

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Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

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Portrait of Ian Morris

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An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia

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The Men Who United the States

The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

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British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

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A photo of Jackie, Caroline and Jack Kennedy

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Unseen photos of John F Kennedy and family

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President John F Kennedy speaking at a press conference, c1963. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)

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Q&A: If President Kennedy hadn’t been wearing a back brace when he was assassinated, would he have lived?

George G Meade, best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E Lee at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. (Photo by Matthew Brady/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

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18th-century slave uprising

Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The 16th president of the United States "understood the value of hard work, had deep beliefs and pursued them," says Alastair Campbell. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)  

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