Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti 1917 – 1995), the Hollywood film star with Jerry Lewis at White City during the World Middleweight Championship of 1953, 9th June 1953. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Stanley Ross, 26, of Detroit 3 ft. 2 inches tall, left, Tommy Lowe 36, 5-ft. 5-inches of New York and Henry Hite, 21, of Atlanta, 7 ft. , 9-inches, stopped in Chicago en route to Wyoming on August 24, 1936. Here they are illustrating their version of “up”. (Photo by AP Photo)





Armed members of the Republican Muslim People's Party, which supports Ayatollah Shariatmadari, on guard at party headquarters in Tabriz, Iran, December 29, 1979, following clashes with Revolutionary Guards of Ayatollah Khomeini. (Photo by Jacques Langevin/AP Photo)





Two U.S. soldiers assigned to guard the White House carry rifle guns as they march down West Executive Avenue between the White House, in background, and the State Department in Washington, D.C. on December 9, 1941 during World War II. (Photo by AP Photo)





Six correspondents and photographers who landed under fire in the Casablanca area, Morocco on December 21, 1942, take time out from picture snapping, to pose for one themselves. From left to right are John Jarrell of International News Service, David Brown of Reuters, Irving Smith of Universal Newsreel, Sam Schulman of International News Photos, Harold Boyle of Associated Press, and Walter Logan of United Press. (Photo by AP Photo/International News Photo)





Women mourn at the funeral of Carlos, Gypsy King, who was murdered at Noyen, France, in a tribal feud. Grief-stricken Gypsies follow the cortege to the grave in France, February 24, 1933. (Photo by AP Photo)





The 21st Annual “Eating and Oratorical Contest”, staged by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, was held in the Hotel Commodore in New York on February 6, 1944. From left to right: Chip Royal, of AP; Fred Weatherly, of the Mirror; Arthur Patterson, of the Herald-Tribune; and John Drebinger, of The Times, do a skit “The Bumming of Berlin”. (Photo by AP Photo)





Wearing a captured Soviet army belt, a tough-looking Afghan guerrilla crouches against a wall pock-marked by bullets, February 16, 1989. Only 13 years old, he is part of a special elite guerrilla force that has penetrated 2 of 3 Afghan army security perimeters protected Ghazni City. After capturing Ghazni, the guerrillas plan to go to Kabul, 90 miles away, joining other insurgents massed around the capital, to overthrow the Communist regime. (Photo by Joe Gaal/AP Photo)





Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Fire Service, formed to assist the regular fire bridge in case of national emergency, paraded, February 23 at the London Fire Brigade headquarters, Albert Embankment. Two members of two women’s auxiliary fire service receiving an emergency call, and taking notes of instructions during their parade held at the London Fire Brigade headquarters, on February 23, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)





The English skating champion Graham Sharp practicing at St. Moritz, on the Palace Ice rink on January 12, 1938. His grace is well demonstrated in this picture. (Photo by AP Photo)





Attractive arch was built of salt crystals with electric lights concealed inside. It is part of the display in the salt mine, which is visited by thousands of sightseers every Sunday at Kochendorf, Germany, January 20, 1950. (Photo by Albert Riethausen/AP Photo)





Two American soldiers examine some of the features of an abandoned German minenwerfer, rocket gun, in northern France on January 31, 1945. Though the U.S. is a newcomer to rocket warfare, American scientists are making mighty strides in its development. (Photo by AP Photo)





A woman tries to pick three eggs from a box and transfer them to the three spoons held in her partner's mouth in a stunt arranged for the “Beat The Clock” television show in New York, March 8, 1952. (Photo by AP Photo)





Workers at a cricket ball factory in Teston, Kent, place the centres of the balls into a heated oven in order to tighten them, March 8, 1960. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)





Q-trucks of the desert is a not inapt a term for the trucks mounting anti-tank guns which are used as highly mobile, hard-hitting artillery units. They speed over the desert like lighting and attack the enemy from all sorts of unexpected quarters. One of the units, making contact with a German column, accounted for three enemy tanks and four armoured cars. A mobile anti-tank unit of the Eighth Army in action, somewhere in the desert, Libya, on July 26, 1942. (Photo by AP Photo)





Mexican market near Toluca, about sixty miles from Mexico City, June 22, 1940. (Photo by Frank Filan/AP Photo)





David Cameron, dentist with the Australian health survey party, takes a wax impression of a Trobriand islander's teeth in Papua New Guinea on March 1, 1948. The Australians spent seven months checking the health and diet of natives in five areas of Papua New Guinea. (Photo by AP Photo)





Jane Martin remains seated and “gets her filing done” using the “Corresfile” electric/hydraulic lift and circular file system at the Office and Management Association's 11th Annual Seminar and Business Show in Chicago, Ill., March 6, 1953. The electrically operated hydraulic lift raises a person from floor level to five feet alongside a circular file. The circular file has six shelves and each holds the equivalent of three file drawers. The Corresfile is an innovation of the Wassell Organization of Westport, Conn. (Photo by Edward Kitch/AP Photo)





A Cambodian girl stands with her rooster and two kittens next to her father's rifle at a marshaling point in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, October 10, 1974. In Cambodia, family members often follow breadwinners into the combat zone. (Photo by Tea Kim Heang/AP Photo)





Even upside down, a stereophonic turntable continues to play and hold the interest of Helen Sorowitz, a visitor to the New York High Fidelity Show in New York, September 9, 1960. (Photo by Ruben Goldberg/AP Photo)