Ham the chimp via
“Ham the chimp in his capsule during his space flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida in early 1961. Ham was the first chimpanzee launched into outer space in the American space program. Ham’s capsule splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, after a flight of 16 minutes and 39 seconds.”
Joan Trumpauer via
“A Jackson Police Department file booking photograph of Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer provided by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, taken on June 8, 1961. 19-year-old Duke University student and part-time secretary in the Washington office of Senator Clair Engle of California, Trumpauer arrived in Jackson, Mississippi to take part in the June 4, 1961 Mississippi Freedom Ride. She and eight others were promptly arrested and refused bail. Trumpauer served three months in jail, later enrolling in traditionally black Tougaloo college, which had just started accepting white students.”
L.L. Bean via
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Petr Josek via
“A house along the Sedivackuv Long dogsled race in the village of Destne, in the Orlicke mountains of the Czech Republic.”
Ilya Naymushin via
“A member of a winter bathing club waded into the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.”
