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Samuel Reshevsky, a chess prodigy from Poland. He was only 8 years old when this photo was taken at a chess exhibition in France in 1920.

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The Wilson cloud, result of Test Baker at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The authorities promised the residents of Bikini Atoll that they would be able to come back home after these tests, but that wasn’t true.

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