Downtown Reno under the arch

1950, this photo shows some of the many World Famous cowboys that haveriden under the "The Biggest Little City in the World" Reno Arch. Leading the way,on his famous white horse "Champion" is Hopalong Cassidy. To his left and also raising his hat is actor Erroll Flynn. The cowboy on the far left is future President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

Tourists on Tejita Beach help migrants

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The girl in the picture is Phan The Kim Phúc also known as Kim Phuc (born in 1963), a nine-year old running naked and severely burned on her back by a napalm atack.
Photographer Huynh Cong Ut, known by his colleagues as Nick, was working there as a photo journalist for Associated Press at the time and took a number of photographs of the villagers trying to escape the napalm. This one, epitomising the savagery and tragedy of the conflict, won him the coveted Pulitzer Prize and became one of the most published photos of the Vietnam war.
The boy is her older brother Tam who survived the attack but lost an eye. Ut (the photographer) poured water onto the young girl and took her and some of the other children to a hospital near Saigon where she spent fourteen months recovering from the horrific burns to her skin.

This what one of the world’s most famous ‘war images’ would have looked like, if censored.
It’s the picture of Vietnamese children running from a Napalm attack during the Vietnam war, but you can’t see the key figure in the photo which is a little girl running naked and bruised.
Here’s the original, which influenced public opinion worldwide and remains, to this day, a striking image of who suffers the most from wars; innocent children.

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Marines of Company E, 2d Battalion, 28th Marines, lower the first flag raised over Mount Suribachi, while other men raise a second flag which became the subject of Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's world-famous photograph. Department of Defense Photo (USMC) 112718

Marines of Company E, 2d Battalion, 28th Marines, lower the first flag raised over Mount Suribachi, while other men raise a second flag which became the subject of Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's world-famous photograph. Department of Defense Photo (USMC) 112718