Sculptures representing charred chimneys rising from the smoldering rubble of burned-out buildings make up the centennial memorial of the 1908 race riot, entitled Acts of Intolerance by Preston Jackson, on March 22, 2023, in Springfield, Ill. John O'Connor/AP hide caption
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The prehistoric monument Stonehenge, near Amesbury in southern England, has long fascinated researchers and visitors. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Students crowded around General Logan Monument during the 1968 National Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 1968. Peter Bullock/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images hide caption
John Kerry (center) stands with other military personnel in an unspecified location circa the 1960s. The details of Kerry's service during the Vietnam War, and his subsequent anti-war activism, became the focus of a veterans' group's smear campaign against him during his 2004 presidential campaign. Kerry Campaign/Getty Images hide caption
TV image of President Richard Nixon announcing his decision to resign. Tom Middlemiss/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images hide caption
Acts range from family-friendly slapstick to edgy stand-up at the four-day comedy festival put on by The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y. — that's the birthplace of I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball, who was born Aug. 6, 1911. Brendan Halbohm/National Comedy Center hide caption
Photographs of the front and right profile of the head of the "Screaming Woman" mummy were taken in 1939 at the Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine in Cairo. Saleem and El-Merghani hide caption
The handheld video game console Game Boy manufactured by Nintendo in 1989. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Edith Bouvier Beale at her home "Grey Gardens" in January 1972 in New York. A 1975 documentary by that name explores the reclusive lives of Beale and her mother, living in their dilapidated house with over 50 cats. Tom Wargacki/WireImage hide caption
Six-year-old Leona Tate is escorted by U.S. Marshals from McDonogh 19 Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 15, 1960. AP hide caption
Desegregation pioneer Leona Tate preserves civil rights history in New Orleans
James Baldwin's face is painted on a decorative bookcase inside the Baldwin & Co. bookstore in New Orleans. Neda Ulaby/NPR hide caption
A bookstore named for James Baldwin is counting down to his 100th birthday
Workmen searched through the debris of what was the carpenter shop on the pier at Port in Chicago, Calif. on July 18, 1944, after the building was leveled by the explosion of two munition ships the evening of July 17. Other buildings on the waterfront and in the town itself were shattered by the terrific blast, which was felt 50 miles from the scene. EKB/AP hide caption
B.A. Parker at Somerset Place plantation as a child. Courtesy of B.A. Parker hide caption
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption