This photo was taken during the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the year of the famous "Dream Team." It shows Michael Jordan playing ping pong and Larry Bird lying on the ground, drunk, surrounded by beer bottles and children's toys.
A former concentration camp prisoner pulls a camp guard by the hair while American soldiers watch at the recently liberated Dora-Mittelbau camp, April 1945
Kalle Johansson, a lone Swedish police constable, brandishes his saber at a group of rioters attempting to storm a Nazi assembly. Linköping, September 5, 1943.
Viktor Yushchenko before and after he was poisoned by Russian agents in 2004. He and his family believe the assassination attempt was ordered by Moscow when he attempted to steer Ukraine to closer integration with Europe.
Ans van Dijk, a Jewish-Nazi collaborator, is on trial for treason. She lured other Jews out of hiding and had them imprisoned by the Gestapo during the war. Dijk sold out at least 145 persons, including her own brother, Amsterdam, 1947, and received payment for each Jew she captured.
Euzebe Virdine is photographed here moments before his execution on August 8 1924. He had been a serial killer in Louisiana and his last request was to have his photo taken on the gallows.