The Real Lawrence of Arabia - T.E. Lawrence poses for Lowell Thomas in England.

President Abraham Lincoln With Son Tad, 1865

 Tad Lincoln was a handful, a rambunctious youth who ran wild in the White House and was known to interrupt his father's meetings. His father spotted this restless quality at birth, giving him the nickname "Tad" because the baby was "as wiggly as a tadpole." Though Tad outlived his father, his life was not long, as he died suddenly in 1871 at the age of 18.

The raucous October Revolution led by Vladimir Lenin, 1917

 1917 was a year vast change for the Russian people. Revolution took hold of the country and brought an end to centuries of imperial rule, leading to what we now know as the Soviet Union. The country was primed for social upheaval, mass unrest was prepared to boil over and Vladimir Lenin was ready to light the fire.

October of that year saw the Bolshevik Party enact a bloodless coup against Russia’s provisional government. Rather than lead members of the working class into battle Lenin whipped them into a fury before taking over government buildings and occupying strategic places in Petrograd.

It wasn’t long before the world’s first communist government was formed with Lenin at its head.

John F. Kennedy , winner of the Democratic Nomination for Congress in the 11th Massachusetts District, relaxes with his dog on June 22, 1946

 The American people have long held a fascination with John F. Kennedy. Not only because of the sad way his life ended, but because the way that he so well embodied the beliefs of the United States. He was an iconoclast who believed in tradition while leaning into being an individual.

In a speech on July 4, 1946 he said that we shouldn’t forget that as Americans we’re lucky to be born with so many individual rights:

To us, who have been reared in the American tradition, these rights have become part of our very being. They have become so much a part of our being that most of us are prone to feel that they are rights universally recognized and universally exercised. But the sad fact is that this is not true. They were dearly won for us only a few short centuries ago and they were dearly preserved for us in the days just past. And there are large sections of the world today where these rights are denied as a matter of philosophy and as a matter of government.

 

Kennedy American White Tie Of 1958.

JOHN F. KENNEDY JR.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as JFK Jr. or John John, was an American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher. He was the only surviving son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and younger brother of Caroline Kennedy. His father was assassinated three days before his third birthday.

Nelson Mandela