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33 MUST-SEE HISTORICAL PHOTOS. #13 Is An Image That Changed The World. There's a reason why the study of history is so complex and nuanced: The past is a vast and open space, filled with millions of teachable moments. People build their entire careers off of studying and researching a mere decade or time period, and the info they can pull from never seems to run out. Below are 33 historical photos, all from different places and times, and all that capture a moment we could surely learn a lesson from today. Check out the photos below, and definitely have a Google search bar open: When you see some of these, you're going to want to educate yourself even further. #1. Repainting the face of Boston's Custom House for the 1976 bicentennial celebrations. #2. Bill Murray looking coy at Elvis' funeral in 1977. #3. A newsboy selling papers in Wilmington, Delaware in 1910. #4. A girl being carried away by police at the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in 1965. The emotion was just too much for her to handle. #5. At the American Painting Factory, artists were hired to create portraits of war heroes for LIFE Magazine. This was in 1942. #6. Audrey Hepburn taking a smoke break, sometime in the fifties. #7. The Ingenues, an all-girl band and vaudeville act, serenade the cows at the University of Wisconsin. The performance was part of a 1930 experiment to see whether music boosted the cows' milk production. #8. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during a press conference in Birmingham, Alabama. #9. Sparrowhawk hangs from the USS Macon, the Navy's last flying aircraft carrier. #10. Eleanor Roosevelt meeting the Democratic party mascot. #11. San Francisco during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. #12. Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and John Roosevelt, the president's sons, posing here with surfing pioneer Duke Kahanamoku. #13. Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient. Her handshake without gloves made her a gay icon, as victims were often treated like lepers at the time. #14. Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge, photographed in 1914. #15. Cast members of the original Star Trek. Recognize them? Left to right, it's Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, DeForest Kelley, and James Doohan. #16. Dr. Timothy Leary, a Harvard professor, lecturing from a futon in 1966. #17. President Ford with Democratic & Republican House leaders O’Neill & Rhodes in 1974. #18. Ronald Reagan “punching” Muhammad Ali during his visit to the White House in 1983. #19. U.S. paratroopers crossing a river in southern Vietnam in 1965. #20. Former President Richard Nixon giving a thumbs-up after he resigned. #21. Former United States President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. He's pictured here with his new wife Rosalynn, shortly after his graduation from Naval Academy in 1946. #22. The Beatles and policeman Bobby Palamaro pose with a six-foot sandwich at White House Sub Shop in Atlantic City in 1964. #23. Housewife Barbara Dunlap under the effects of LSD. Dunlap was part of a study examining the effects of the drug. #24. Hair and make-up test for Cary Grant for 1959's "North by Northwest." #25. Michael Rockefeller with the Dani tribe in New Guinea. Rockefeller disappeared there in 1961, and it's thought that he was killed and eaten by cannibals. #26. Relocating the face of one of the Abu Simbel temples, which were moved to higher ground to prepare for inevitable flooding from the Aswan High Dam project in Egypt. #27. Young girls playing in the slums of Manchester in 1965. #28. Swami Satchidananda Saraswati at the opening of Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. #29. The biology lab at Agricultural and Mechanical College in Greensboro in 1899. #30. Dustin Hoffman stands outside his home on West 11th street in New York City. The house next store was destroyed by an accidentally detonated bomb. Hoffman's living room wall was left with a hole in it. #31. Atlantic City tourists enjoy the beach in 1904. #32. The first Stanley cup winners, the Montreal Hockey Club. #33. John Rock, one of the people behind the creation of the birth control pill. Ironically, he's pictured here with his 17 grandchildren. Want to see more?