Marilyn Monroe and playing sports, 1953.

Greta Garbo and Jackie (MGM movie studio mascot), 1926.

Policemen drag out an opponent of nuclear weapons development from a secret military site. Norfolk, 1958.

A photo of a bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Cairo, 1912.

Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary hunting, 1900.

European birthing chair, circa 1750.

A surviving passenger on the Titanic gives an autograph to a passerby. 1912.

A gift kit that includes a syringe, a set of needles, and ampoules of cocaine and heroin. Relatives sent such kits to British army soldiers who fought on the fronts of World War I.

U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson cries as he listens to an audio message from his son-in-law Captain Chuck Robb about the situation in Vietnam, 1968.

A U.S. Army master sergeant displays swords of King Frederick the Great of Prussia. May 1945.

This decoration is about 2,500 years old. The innoscription on the gem reads "Dexamenos epoie Chios," that is, "The work of Dexamen from Chios." Dexamenos is known as one of the most skilled carvers of ancient Greece. He worked in Athens in the second half of the fifth century B.C.

Elizabeth II addresses the people of India. New Delhi, 1961

Ferrari factory, 1984.

2.5 million spectators at Jean-Michel Jarre's concert on Bastille Day, Paris, 1991.

The silk vest of a nobleman. China, mid-19th century.

Drinking a bottle of Scotch in a pub. Scotland, 1913.

Carlos Ray Norris Jr. (the future Chuck Norris) as a child.

Children playing the guillotine. France, 1959.

X-ray of a young child. Chicago, 1942.

In the 1950s, tobacco companies advertised cigarettes as healthful products.

Children watching the play "Saint George and the Dragon" in a puppet theater. Paris, 1936.