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Iconic Photos

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(© Bettmann/Corbis)

(© Photo Inc/Courtesy Library of Congress)

(© Joe Rosenthal/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

(© Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

(© Harry Harris/AP)

Image: C.H. Long (© Leonard Mccombe/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

(© Matty Zimmerman/AP)

Image: Y. A. Tittle - New York Giants - File Photos (© Morris Berman/Getty Images)

(© John Rooney/AP)

(© AP)

Image: Apollo 8 (© Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL/Getty Images)

Image: US astronaut Buzz Aldrin (© Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Image: Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins (© Ray Lussier/Boston Record American/Courtesy Boston Herald)

(© Nick Ut/AP)

Image: Richard Nixon (© Bill Pierce/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Image: Mount St. Helens explosion (© Grant M. Haller/Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Image: Space Shuttle Challenger (© NASA/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

(© Eric Gay/AP)

Image: Michael Jordan (© Walter Iooss Jr. /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)

(© Jack Smith/AP)

(© Jeff Widener/AP Photo)

(© Kevin Carter/Sygma/Corbis)

(© Charles Porter IV/ZUMA Press/Corbis)

Image: Brandi Chastain (© Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

(© Alan Diaz/AP)

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