1Motorists pass people on a scenic road atop a cliff overlooking a bay near Trieste, Italy, 1956.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART

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Surfers overpopulate the waves off of Bondi Beach in Australia, 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT B. GOODMAN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

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Princess Grace Kelly in Monaco, 1962.PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT M. GROSVENOR

4People sunbathe beside a swimming pool in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS.

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Two women give food to a red and green macaw in a city garden in Brazil, 1944.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE,

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Two young women stand near a turning aircraft propeller, 1940.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN,

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The arrival of a supply boat draws a crowd to the beach on Mauke Island in New Zealand, 1967.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD,

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A group picnics on a field in Thessaloniki, Greece that was once a malaria-ridden swamp, 1940.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

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Found curator Janna Dotschkal shares some of her favorite images on the National Geographic Proof blog.PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANK HEGE, NASA, HANS HILDENBRAND AND JAMES P. BLAIR,

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Two women on a shopping trip walk across a street in Havana, Cuba, 1947.PHOTOGRAPH BY MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

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Elsie Bell Grosvenor stares straight at the camera in this portrait taken in 1901, possibly when she was pregnant with Melville B. Grosvenor. She is wearing a hat decorated with a huge ostrich feather.PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT H. GROSVENOR,

12Locals relax by the tulip fields along the canal in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1931.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILHELM TOBIEN

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Dozens of visitors frolic in the water as seen through a palm frond in Acapulco, Mexico, 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS NEBBIA

14An Alexander Graham Bell associate holds a multicelled kite, 1903.NO CREDIT GIVEN

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Boys dressed up in school uniforms pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART AND DAVID S. BOYER

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A couple watches a waiter prepare a flaming fruit dessert in New Zealand, 1962.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT B. GOODMAN

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Visitors of diverse nationalities crowd a casino roulette table in Swaziland, 1969.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL

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A young woman in a bathing suit enjoys frothy surf near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. From the July 1966 cover story “Parkscape U.S.APHOTOGRAPH BY EMORY KRISTOF,

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The first explorers to descend to the deepest part of the ocean were Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard in the bathyscaphe Trieste, January 23, 1960. 52 years later, James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGER journeyed to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below sea level.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY U.S NAVY

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Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats a few meters away from Space Shuttle Challenger during the historic first use of a nitrogen-propelled manned maneuvering unit in 1984.PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA

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Two men struggle to free their scooter from a barbed-wire barricade in Saigon, South Vietnam, 1965.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. E. GARRETT,

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Visitors play shuffleboard at a recreation center near Mirror Lake in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS,

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The Statue of Liberty hails dawn over New York Harbor in 1978.PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID ALAN HARVEY,

24New Mexico, 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART,

25A solitary fisherman’s home keeps watch on quiet Placentia Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, 1974.PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ABELL

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Men stand beside a volcano’s crater eighteen months after an eruption on Tristan da Cunha Island, 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR,

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A sled dog, tied to a whale rib, howls under the midnight sun in Alaska, 1969.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS J. ABERCROMBIE,

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A view of ships and canoes docked in the harbor for summer camp fun at the Lanakila Camp for Boys in Vermont, 1927.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS,

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The Edgar Allen Poe Shrine in Richmond, Virginia, 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN,

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Wealthy Muslims examine the wedding finery of a bride in Dacca, Bangladesh, 1972.PHOTOGRAPH BY DICK DURRANCE II.

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A woman gazes at lions in the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. in 1931. These lions were brought to the U.S. from Africa by Theodore Roosevelt.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN,

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Ndebele chief Mtonzima Gwebu wears traditional dress in his modern home in Zimbabwe, 1975.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS NEBBIA

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Women carry baskets on their heads while children play in Kotaka, Mali, 1991.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD

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Women dance to send off a friend on an airplane trip in Mopti, Mali, 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR,

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Personifying evil, a costumed mapico dancer in Mozambique hides from spectators, 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL,

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A Thai woman poses in a Panung, the national costume, 1907.PHOTOGRAPH BY ELIZA R. SCIDMORE

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Candles mark a procession leaving Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec, 1971.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD,

38A Tibetan spiritual figure holds a Mongolian blade after twisting it with his seemingly superhuman strength, 1935.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN

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Ballet dancers appear in a love scene from Phedre by Jean Cocteau in Paris, 1952.PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN LOCKE

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Young lovers embrace beside the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1960.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS NEBBIA,

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A girl sits by a lake with snow-capped mountains in the background, California, 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN.

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A rainbow arches over Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR WENTZEL

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A shadow of a man holding a bicycle is cast on a wall near the Zambezi River, 1996.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS JOHNS

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A child sits among the produce from a Florida citrus grove, 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS

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The huge Gate of Heavenly Peace, the main entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing, looms in the dusty early morning haze which partially obscures the sun. This view, taken from Tiananmen Square, shows the tiny figures of people walking along the main thoroughfare leading to the gate, 1978.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR

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Woman adorned like a Chinese goddess poses in a garden in California, 1915.PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANKLIN PRICE KNOTT,

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The first successful aerial color photograph—which depicted the Statue of Liberty—used the Finlay process, 1931.PHOTOGRAPH BY MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR

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A man burns prickly pear to feed cattle during a drought in Texas.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN,

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Women in bright dress walk by a fountain with the Taj Mahal in the background, 1959.PHOTOGRAPH BY MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR

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A passageway in Algeria.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS J. ABERCROMBIE

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Men blast granite to build tunnels for a hydroelectric project in Australia, 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT B. GOODMAN,

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With claws bared, a kitten attacks its own mirrored reflection, 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY WALTER CHANDOHA

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A white fallow stag stands in a forest in Switzerland, 1973.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

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Four entwined cobras, 1970.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR

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The Britannic, a massive British steamer and sister ship to the Titanic, launches from Belfast Harbor in 1914. The Britannic sunk two years later after encountering a German mine field in the Meditteranean sea.NO CREDIT GIVEN

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Coconut palms along the Mayagüez lagoons in Puerto Rico, 1924.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN,

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A twilight view of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in Zambia, 1996.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS JOHNS

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A balloon from Anchorage, Alaska, flies over Cook Inlet, 1986. PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS JOHNS

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The wind sculpts the dunes of the Sahara Desert in the Erg Bourarhet, Algeria, 1973.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS J. ABERCROMBIE

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Flamingos standing and feeding in a pool near salt beds, Netherlands Antilles.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL

September 1, 2015 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.CAll photos were taken from National Geographic

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