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Gay activists carry a mile-long rainbow banner through New York City to mark the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. June 26, 1994.

How to kiss a girl (with her enthusiastic permission)

Political cartoon (by Tom Toles) of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, 2009

A day after his execution on this day in 1967, Che Guevara’s corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital, Bolivia.

For almost 70 years, the young girl in this post-war photograph was unidentified. Research traced her identity to Teresa Adwentowska, from Warsaw, who was severely affected by wartime trauma. In a residence for disturbed children, she drew a picture of ‘home’ on the blackboard. 1948.