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Nadia Comaneci of Romania is awarded a perfect ten after her routine on the uneven bars during the Women's artistic team all-around event on 18 July 1976 during the XXI Olympic Summer Games at the Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada. (Photo by Don Morley/Getty Images)
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A model of the Viking 1 Mars lander.
NASA
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Two black and white mugshot-style photographs of a man, one showing his profile and the other a frontal view. The man has a serious expression on his face and the background appears to be a plain wall or surface.
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