Left: East German border guards carry the body of eighteen-year-old Peter Fechter, whom they shot as he attempted to enter West Berlin by scaling the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie, August 1962.
Right: The Berlin Wall opens, N...
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Left: East German border guards carry the body of eighteen-year-old Peter Fechter, whom they shot as he attempted to enter West Berlin by scaling the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie, August 1962.
Right: The Berlin Wall opens, N...
Left: Air evacuation of wounded US soldiers from Sicily, 1943.
Right: Air evacuation of wounded US soldiers from Afghanistan, 2013.
Some things never change.
Girls.Los Angeles beauty pageant contestant, 1942.
Boys.Tubing in Wiscons...
Left: A damaged Galveston residential neighborhood after the hurricane on September 8, 1900.
Right: Houses have been raised up on jacks to the new street level shown by the man standing to the right.
Sand will be dumped underneath them.
To protect against future catastrophic flooding, the city ra...
Left: The Mercury-Atlas 6 rocket launches John Glenn’s Friendship 7 spacecraft into Earth orbit, February 20, 1962.
The rocket is 94 feet tall.
Right: The Space Launch System rocket which will send astronauts to the Moon.
The rocket is 332 feet ...
Left: The Alamo Chapel in 1849.
This is said to be the oldest photo taken in Texas.
The Battle of the Alamo, with Mexican troops led by Santa Anna, took place in 1836.
Right: More than 1.6 million people visit the Alamo in San Antonio each year....