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Mary Smith made a living waking
workers by blowing peas against
their windows.
4. Traffic jam in Berlin, Germany, on
the first Saturday after the fall of
the Wall.
16. Playing golf high up on the Empire State Building in New York City during its 1932
construction.
18. New York City’s Grand Central Station in 1929. Currently, skyscrapers around the site prevent
this illuminating view.
22. Buddist monk immolation in Saigon, Vietnam, to protest religious persecution of the South
Vietnamese government. Since then, this protest is called "self-immolation".
25. Children suffering from polio are placed into iron lungs, which apply external air pressure
and vacuum to allow their own lungs to work, 1937.
29. Samuel Reshevsky, only 8 years old, simultaneously playing against multiple Chess Masters
in France, 1920.