Behind the scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
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LIFE Magazine's take on the "Soldier of the Future", 1959
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7-foot Bolaji Badejo
A Nigerian design student wearing his costume
from the sci-fi thriller Alien, 1978
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Assembling the Sears Roebuck Catalog, 1942
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Family photo left on the moon by Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke, 1972
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High School principal R. Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the KKK after he left a board meeting where
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he proposed the school district honor MLK, Jr. A student took this photo of Brownlee when he returned to the school for help.April 3, 71
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Last day women were able to walk streets of Tehran with heads uncovered.
Iranian women rebel against 1979 hijab law
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A prototype of a space suit designed at UCLA, 1961
Los Angeles, CA
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The Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City, Colorado, 1925
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Inmates playing chess from their prison cells, by Cornell Capa, 1972
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Headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (sic)
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That is, weirdly, even creepier than your average creepy Klan pic. I guess it's the "HAPPY Klansmen" presentation.
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I had to look at this image several times. The startling incongruity is an oxymoron made manifest. It shocks. You try to suppress a smile.
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