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In a thousand-year-old rite, the witches dance around bonfire within prehistoric Rollright stone circle that stands in Oxfordshire. history

The Wonderful World of Witches: Portraits of English Pagans, 1964

John Glenn, 1959 history

The Right Stuff: When America Met the Mercury Astronauts

Albert Einstein's office - just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it - taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955. history

The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story

Adolf Hitler receives a model of a Condor airplane as a gift on his 50th birthday, Berlin, April 20, 1939. history

Hitler at 50: Color Photos From a Despot’s Garish Birthday Bash

Apollo 9, March 1969. On the fourth day of the mission, astronaut David Scott stood in the open hatch of the command module and scanned the blue earth below. history

The Amazing Lunar Module: From Early Models to the Moon

Apollo 1 astronauts Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, 1967. history

The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee

Marine Capt. Francis "Ike" Fenton ponders his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company is nearly out of ammunition, Korea, 1950. history

David Douglas Duncan and the Korean War: A Defining Photo

Freedom riders, along with Martin Luther King Jr., relax at a safe house in Montgomery, Ala. history

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Riders: Rare and Classic Photos

Young America League Football, 1939 history

Little Tough Guys: Faces of the Young America Football League, 1939

The threatening storm rises above a farm near Hartman, Colo. Once range land, it lies almost ruined by wheat. Dust-choked corral and pump are land's tombstones. history

‘Plague Upon the Land’: Scenes From an American Dust Bowl, 1954

Striptease Superstar: Rare and Classic Photos of Gypsy Rose Lee history

Striptease Superstar: Rare and Classic Photos of Gypsy Rose Lee

Appalachia, eastern Kentucky, 1964. history

War on Poverty: Portraits From an Appalachian Battleground, 1964

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