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January
Two models sport undergarments made with Controlastic, a rubberized elastic yarn pioneered by Firestone and unveiled at the 1939-1940 World's Fair.
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February
Historians continue to debate the authenticity of this 1907 Edward S. Curtis photo of a Hidatsa hunter clutching an eagle he may (or may not) have just captured. It's possible the bird was simply a prop.
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March
For centuries in the Fiji Islands, tribal officials would bring out their best utensils for special people—not to serve them, but to eat them.
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April
Early technology—in the form of an x-ray and an electric shaver—is sparingly demonstrated in this 1941 image.
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May
Taking a break from her daily routine, Anne Cary Maudslay, wife of English archaeologist Alfred Maudslay, admires an eighth-century Maya stela at Quiriguá, Guatemala, in 1894.
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June
As the former king of Syria, Faisal I already had experience when he came to Iraq’s throne in 1921, establishing a Hashemite monarchy that lasted until 1958.
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July
Shortly after this photograph was taken in 1910, political upheaval not only divided the Korean nation, but also the family of the country's former minister of war, Yun Ung-ryeol.
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August
Welcome to Hell! Hell’s Café, that is, a Right Bank hot spot where 19th-century Parisians had a devilishly good time.
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September
Watch out! This striped burrfish grinds its teeth to attract mates, as F. Barrows Colton found in his 1945 experiment to record fish noises.
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October
Buried for centuries after Dur Sharrukin, now Khorsabad, Iraq, was abandoned, this gypsum relief of a winged Assyrian god remained unharmed during the looting of Baghdad’s Iraq Museum last April.
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November
In 1953 the children of National Geographic author and photographer Ralph Gray got closer than the law allows, at least today, to one of Yellowstone’s bears.
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December
The hybrid ConvAirCar buzzed over San Diego on a trial flight in November 1947. But on its third test run, it crashed. The pilot survived. Production plans didn’t.
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