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January
A cartoon image of an alien drawn by an explorer from the early 1900s. |
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February
Gorillas are transported by car to the St. Louis Zoo in 1938. |
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March
A caravan of camels exits the Tatar City gates in Peking, China. Published in 1920. |
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April
A masked dancer from the Elema people of Papua balances a shark-effigy headdress made from bark cloth and cane. |
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May
Swimmers dive into the waters of Spirit Lake, below Mount St. Helens, in the 1940s. |
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June
London ladies picnic on a roof overlooking the Thames’ Tower Bridge in 1932. |
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July
A boulder wedged in a slot canyon in the Grand Canyon in 1905. |
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August
Fishermen grasp onto a 12-foot (3.6-meter) oarfish from Sydney Harbour in June 1954. |
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September
Lunar New Year observances at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Japan. |
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October
In the 1920s sensibilities were different, as seen in this photograph of a
visitor to Australia’s Mast Head Islet taking a ride on the back of a green turtle. |
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November
This doggy diner got biting criticism at a time when buildings shaped like owls, teakettles, and shoes were popping up along roadsides surrounding Los Angeles.
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December
A polar bear cub gets a bath on the trip from the Arctic to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
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