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This is an undated photo of athlete Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle back of the Carlisle Indian School in 1907-1908 and 1911-1912. He was also the unanimous...

This is an undated photo of the crew of the Army B-29 Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atom bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, posing in the Mariana Is...

Julia Ward Howe, composer and publisher of

LCdr. John S. McCain, USN, is shown in this undated photo lying injured in North Vietnam wearing an arm cast. He was a held prisoner during the Vietn...

Colonel William F. Cody,

These are stock portraits of five of the Israelis held hostage by Arab terrorists at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 5, 1972. In the...

This is an undated photo of U.S. Lt. General Joseph W. Stilwell, left, commander of American Forces in China, Burma, and India, decorating China's Gen...

This is an undated photo of American inventor Thomas A. Edison. (AP Photo)

Pro-Nazi members of various singing and gymnastic societies salute a procession of flags at White Plains Hall in N.Y. in April in the 1930s. They are...

This is an undated photo of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes. (AP Photo)

This undated photograph shows the camp site for the Chinese crew and construction train when building of the first trancontinetal railroad was being s...

Golfer Lionel Hebert is shown in Dayton, Ohio in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Ted Smits)

Nick Stewart, left, is shown in this undated photo with Susan Hayward and John Carroll in a scene from the 1943 film,

This is an undated photo of Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, 31, who assumed power in Nigeria following the upheaval that deposed Gen. Ironsi during the Biafran...

This is an undated photo of the seventeenth President of the United States Andrew Johnson. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of

A portrait by Alonzo Chappel of Chief Justice John Marshall, who headed the U.S. Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835. (AP Photo)

This is an undated portrait of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus attributed to Rodolfo Ghirlandaia. The original is in the Naval Museum of Pegli i...

This is a night view of the RCA building at Rockefeller Center in New York City in the late 1930s. The photograph is taken from Fifth Ave., looking to...

This is an undated photograph of actor Walter Matthau. The location is not known. (AP Photo)

This is a photo of five of eight women whose murders are linked to the Boston Strangler. Left to right are Sophie Clark, 21; Jane Sullivan, 67; Helen...

This is an undated photo of Grover Cleveland with his dog. Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th U.S. President,1885-9 and 1893-7. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of Don Larsen, 19, with his mother, Charlotte Larsen, at their home in San Diego, Calif. Larsen, who is wearing his Point Lom...

An undated photo of Anna Slesers, a victim of the Boston strangler. (AP photo)

Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington is photographed playing the piano in this undated photo. (AP Photo)

Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., is photographed on July 12, 1960. Ford succeeded his grandfather, Henrry Ford, manufacturer and founde...

This is an undated sketch of American inventor Eli Whitney. Whitney invented the cotton-gin, which separated the cotton fibre from the seeds. It was p...

This is an undated photo of a sketch of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Grant led the Union Army to victory during the American Civil War, and accepted the Co...

This is an undated photo of the sacred city of Lhassa in Tibet, China. This monastery is the living place of the Dalai Lama. (AP Photo)

Gen. Paul D. Harkins is shown in this undated photo. Gen. Harkins guides U.S. military policy in Viet Nam. He was appointed to his post by Presiden...

An undated portrait of Henry Clay of Kentucky. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photograph of trombonist and bandleader Glenn Miller performing with his band. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photograph of folk singer Woody Guthrie, singing a song and playing his guitar. Guthrie has written hundreds of songs, celebrating...

Dr. George Washington Carver works in his laboratory at the Tuskegee Institute, Ala., in this undated photograph. Carver revolutionized agricultural d...

This is an undated photograph of Levi Strauss, who originated the denim blue jeans that bear his first name. Strauss emigrated from Bavaria with his f...

This is an undated photograph of folk singer Woody Guthrie playing his guitar. (AP Photo)

According to the U.S. Army, U.S. prisoners of war emplace a mountain gun under Japanese guard on the south shore of Corregidor, Philippines. This unda...

This is an undated photograph of Frank Winfield Woolworth. The American merchant founded the F.W. Woolworth Co., the five-and-dime chain empire, in e...

This is an undated photograph of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of publisher Conde Nast. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of rock and roll guitarist Jimi Hendrix at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of Marshall E. Reed sitting at the controls of a Number 14 Wright Plane which he piloted in Camden, N.J. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of the rock and roll group Beach Boys at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photograph of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain. He is the author of

This is an undated photo of the home of actress Mary Pickford and actor Douglas Fairbanks in Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of Chinese President Sun Yat Sen posing with his wife Lu Mu-Zhen. (AP Photo)

Wounded soldiers are given aid and loaded into a Red Cross ambulance on the British front lines in France during World War I. Smoke from battle can be...

The Russian warship Csarevitch is docked at Tsingtao, or Quingdao, wharf in China in this undated photograph during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05....

This is an undated photograph of American author Dashiell Hammett. Hammett, a crime writer whose style of writing came to be known as hard-boiled fict...

This is an undated photograph of Sun Yat-Sen. He was also called Sun Wen, and was known as the