Schoolgirls pedaling home to change their clothes because tight-fitting slacks, pedal-pushers, and shorts had been banned from their West Berlin school, 1953.

The Greensboro sit-ins. A series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.

Training to diffuse mines at night, 1940.

Dog cart in Volendam, Netherlands, 1890.

Anne Frank’s father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis, 1960.

British soldier hiding from the rain under the German tank “Tiger” during World War II, 1944.

A look at the Twin Towers in NYC on the since-demolished West Side Highway in the late 1970s.

4.5 megabytes of data in 62,500 punched cards, USA, 1955.

A British Army bomb disposal specialist approaches a car bomb during the troubles, 1970s.

Captured german Kar98k rifles at Stavanger, Norway, 1945.

British children taking shelter in a slit trench during a German bombing raid, 1940.

Policeman uses baton on football supporter after a game, 1971.

Roza Georgiyevna Shanina was one of the best Soviet snipers, credited with 59 confirmed kills, 1943.

Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the eastern side, 1961.