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Kay-bah-nung-we-way (aka John Smith) – Ojibwa. He lived to be 128 years of age, 1920
Houdini before his near fatal jump and escape from the icy water below the Queen Street bridge in Melbourne, Australia, 18 February 1910
Nasiruddin, Shah of Persia in regal attire, with his scimitar, 1880s
Roza Shanina in 1944, a Soviet sniper, credited with fifty-four confirmed hits, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his" — General George Patton
Captain Flora Sandes, the only British woman to serve as a front-line soldier in World War I
Alexandre Dumas père wrote The Three Musketeers in 1844. He is one of the most widely read French Authors and his works have been made into over 200 movies
Helmuth Hübener was one of the youngest opponents to the Third Reich. In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets
John Wilkes Booth was Abraham Lincoln's assassin and was an actor
The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Shah Pahlavi, poses with his son, Prince Reza, and wife, Farah, following his coronation in 1967
Former President Harry Truman with President John Kennedy at the White House, 21 January 1961
Saundra Brown Armstrong, first black woman on the Oakland police force gets instructions on how to shoot a shotgun, 1970
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in Florida for attempting to integrate restaurants, 11 June 1963
Gustav Schurmann Twelve-year-old who served in the Civil War as bugler and orderly to Generals Philip Kearny and Daniel Sickles
Elizabeth Taylor with hookah at tea house in Shiraz, Iran, 1976
President Reagan tearing down the Berlin wall, 1987
One of the most famous surgeons of the 20th century, Alfred Blalock was one of the pioneers in shock treatment
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. She reigned for nearly 58 years from 1890 to 1948, longer than any other Dutch monarch
Crimean Tatar pilot, ace of the World War II, the Twice Hero of the USSR Amet-Han Sultan who became the eyewitness of the Deportation (18 May 1944) of his own people from Crimea by the Stalin’s regime
Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin, Russian Sergeant Major, 494 Kills. Ilyin was a sniper in the 50th Guards Rifle Division and fought at Stalingrad