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These are the most important photos of the 20th and 21st century. A beautiful collection compiled by Magnum Photos. It includes (in order): CERRO MURIANO, Spain—Federico Borrell Garcia, Spanish loyalist militiaman, collapses into death, 1936. FRANCE—D-Day, Omaha Beach, 1944. HIROSHIMA, Japan—The center of the atomic bomb blast. A Japanese soldier walks through a site where an army barracks once stood, 1945. POLAND—Teresa, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She has drawn a picture of "home" on the blackboard, 1948. KORDOFAN, Sudan—The Nubas, 1949. NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950. NEW YORK—James Dean alone in Times Square, 1955. SANTA CLARA, Cuba—Fidel Castro lifts a young admirer during the revolution, 1959. MOSCOW—Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon's kitchen debate, 1959. SHARPEVILLE, South Africa—Police open fire on a crowd, killing more than 70 and injuring hundreds of others during what came to be known as the Sharpeville massacre, 1960. CHICAGO—Malcolm X, 1961. ARLINGTON, Va.—Jacqueline Kennedy at John Fitzgerald Kennedy's funeral, Nov. 25, 1963. WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his "I Have A Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!", 1963. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A female protester being arrested and led away by police, 1963. SOUTH CAROLINA—A funeral of a soldier killed in Vietnam, 1966. ARLINGTON, Va.—Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march, 1967. SAIGON, Vietnam—The Saigon fire department, which has the job of collecting the dead from city streets, has just placed a girl, killed by U.S. helicopter fire, in the back of their truck, where her brother finds her, 1968. PARIS—Students hurl projectiles during the May 1968 student protest. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia—Warsaw Pact troops invade Prague near the radio headquarters, 1968. MATAGALPA, Nicaragua—Muchachos await counterattack by the Guard, 1978. MEXICO—Mexicans are arrested while trying to cross the U.S. border, 1979. PESHAWAR, Pakistan—An Afghan girl at Nasir Bagh refugee camp, 1984. NEW BRIGHTON, United Kingdom—1985. TEHRAN, Iran—Veiled women learn how to shoot in the outskirts of the city, 1986. CONEY ISLAND, N.Y.—A family walks along the crowded boardwalk, 1986. BERLIN—A young man bridges the wall between East and West Berlin, 1989. BEIJING, China—Tiananmen Square, 1989. SAN FRANCISCO—AIDS at the Ambassador Hotel. James has been living with AIDS since 1985. He moved into the hotel three years ago. It's the longest time he has lived anywhere, 1993. BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Young people watch a huge plume of smoke rise from lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001. GAZA STRIP—A Palestinian man prays in Khan Younis camp. He awaits permission to pass through an Israeli checkpoint at the entrance of Gush Oatif, 2003. IRAQ—An American soldier is killed during the battle for Baghdad, April 8, 2003.

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Uploaded: December 10, 2007 at 12:14 pm
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JuanZXK (Thursday 30th of October 2008 04:26:06 PM)
how come so many people are racist,i mean what happend to the world! we all came from the same place,but peaple who think they are better that others just cuz something they have make me sick!!!!!!!1 I mean what the hell?! I'm hispanic and I get discriminated almoust every day, and people call me all kinds of thinks like mexican or deug dealer, im only 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bracewar593 (Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 05:48:48 PM)
at :43 every one in my school talks about how unlucky the black people were but the white guy had to drink next to the black guy who prolly smelled.lol
JetLag61 (Saturday 25th of October 2008 07:04:11 AM)
Are you serious? Are you mean that for real? What have you done to be white? Did you had a choice before gettin born? How can you blame people for their colour when this is something you cannot influence?! Capturing africans to america and than complaining about , that you have to live with it?! Peolpe like you makes me so sad.
bracewar593 (Saturday 25th of October 2008 07:57:05 AM)
jeez dude chill out im only 13 and i was makin a joke.black people arent the most innocent people in the world.they talk bout how there living in poor conditions and they deserve more from the government but the dont even get jobs they just fuckin kill eachother.of course im not talkin bout al black people when i say this
WalkaboutSkinnyLove (Sunday 26th of October 2008 07:53:31 PM)
You are so ignorant, even for a 13 year old. Don't talk about stuff you don't understand, especially on a public forum!
apc467 (Thursday 30th of October 2008 08:48:43 PM)
holy fucking shit... Dude grow the fuck up. You ignorance is amazing.. You actually think that? You are a disgrace to humanity. "dont criticise what you can't understand"
skipp3rs (Sunday 16th of November 2008 10:23:25 PM)
i agree.
JetLag61 (Thursday 16th of October 2008 05:05:15 AM)
It's ignorance to generales other races, thats, what the nazis did... an what you did now! That is the same fascism! Where should this end, when you act the same way? Im german, but I have NOTHING to do with fascists, so don't put it all in one box!
desko8 (Thursday 16th of October 2008 04:18:28 AM)
great job incredible photos
hoops4so2 (Thursday 2nd of October 2008 06:52:44 PM)
lol ur dumb