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A drag queen applies lipstick in this 1959 photograph

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A photograph of President John Quincy Adams

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The Statue of Liberty in New York. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

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Outlander: the real history that inspired the time-slip drama

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

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A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)

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A flapper shows off her hidden bottles of alcohol

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Spy plane photos revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuba, prompting the crisis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A set of dentures belonging to George Washington. The first US president wore fake teeth for much of his life

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Engraved portrait of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America

George Washington: your guide to the war hero, founding father, first US president and slave owner

A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887

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Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US

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