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Iconic war photograph of a U.S. soldier holding a dying infant in the Saipan mountains, 1944.

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Widespread unemployment in Mongolia has caused many social problems such as depression, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and crime. Otguntugs, 28, and his wife Ounsuren, 36, use what money they have from collecting bottles to purchase cheap Russian vodka which they drink in order to stave off the bitter cold that embraces Ulaanbaatar for large portions of the year.

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Even though their district of Hanoi, Vietnam, was flooded, people wanted to pose or wave at me, Nov. 4, 2008.

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Soldiers transporting a wounded soldier to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center from the Ramstein Air Base, in Landstuhl, Germany, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. Since the 2003 inception of the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, nearly 30,000 American military members have been wounded. Most of the soldiers who have suffered severe bodily harm are airlifted to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, the largest American military hospital outside of the U.S. It is the primary treatment center for coalition casualties.

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Esperance Nirakagori holds her granddaughter, Reponse; her daughter, Protegee, sits at right in their hut in the east Congo village of Kiseguru, some 20 kms from Kiwanja, after being reunited for the second time, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. UNICEF says hundreds of children have been separated from their families since fighting flared in eastern Congo in August, and that more than 1,600 children in the province were seeking their parents last week. On Nov. 6, Protegee was photographed carrying her niece, Response, and crying as she searched for her mother in eastern Congo.

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Justice Jongintaba's grandson holds up a portrait of Nelson Mandela wearing his first suit, taken during his college years.