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Three sisters pose for photographs taken years apart.
A Russian war veteran visits the tank that he fought in which has been
preserved as a monument.
A child gives a gift to riot police in Bucharest.
Retired Police Chief Captain Ray Lewis is arrested at an Occupy Wall
Street protest.
A monk prays over the body of an elderly stranger who died suddenly while
waiting on a train in China.
A dog named Leao keeps watch by the the grave of his owner who was killed
in a landslide in Rio de Janeiro.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity
at the 1968 Olympic games. Both Americans were expelled from the games as
a result.
John F. Kennedy Junior salutes his father's casket.
Christians protect Muslims during the 2011 Cairo uprisings.
A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps,
following a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions
at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six
South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet
their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since
the 1950-53 war.
A dog is reunited with his master after the 2011 Japanese Tsunami.
A line of soldiers march in 1940 British Columbia on their way to a
waiting train as five-year-old Whitey Bernard tugs away from his mother's
hand to reach out for his father.
Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper
fire during a revolt in Venezuela.
Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after
she was knocked to the ground by a police officer's riot shield in
Vancouver, British Columbia.
A mother comforts her son following the 2011 tornado in Concord, Alabama.
Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as
he embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during the Dallas Veterans
Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall in 2005. Sgt Graunke, who was a
member of a Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg, and eye while
defusing a bomb in Iraq in July of 2004.
Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York,
embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the
Manhattan City Clerk's office in 2011.
A four month-old baby is found miraculously in the rubble four days
following the 2011 Japanese Tsunami.
A French civilian weeps as Nazi troops occupy Paris.
PoW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an
inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped
from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with
a local German girl he had fallen in love with.
A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday
bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.
Robert Peraza pauses at his son's name on the 9/11 Memorial during the
tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.
Jacqueline Kennedy wears her pink Chanel suit, still stained with the
blood of her husband, as Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office in Air
Force One. According to Lady Bird Johnson, who was also present: "Her hair
[was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed ... I looked at her.
Mrs. Kennedy's dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely
covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood –
her husband's blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights –
that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood."
Five year-old Tanisha Blevin holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina
victim, one hundred five year-old Nita LaGarde as they are evacuated from
the convention center in New Orleans.
A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a
window in Nihonmatsu, Japan.
Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea
and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in
California after a successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.
Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7
months.
Jane Rose Kasmir plants a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon
during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The
photograph would eventually become the symbol of the flower power
movement.
The iconic photo of Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a
column of Chinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989.
The unknown person known as The Falling Man, one of many that jumped from
the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an
earpiece in his left ear.
Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old
cousin, Private Douglas Halliday, as he and six other fallen soldiers are
brought through the town of Wootton Bassett in England.
US Troops come ashore during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy on June 6,
1944.
A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited
with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one
year old.
Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father,
Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service.
Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys in 1970 as a sign of
mutual respect during a World Cup that had been marred by racism.
A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve of
South Sudan's independence from Sudan.
Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in
Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012.
Earthrise from Apollo 8.
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