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Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St. Louis finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of World War II. Gerry Cranham/Getty Images hide caption

This detailed view shows inscriptions on a sandstone rock that's believed to be the world's oldest runestone, inscribed almost 2,000 years ago, making it several centuries older than the earliest known ones. Javad Parsa/NTB/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Poet Charles Simic is photographed at the City University of New York, May 13, 2003. Richard Drew/AP hide caption

Bagels are displayed for sale at a Manhattan grocery store on Aug. 6, 2010, in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption

Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, Columbus Drive and Michigan Avenue double-leaf trunnion bascule bridges, top to bottom, are seen over the Chicago River on April 3, 2006. Tim Boyle/Getty Images hide caption

LONDON, ENGLAND - Ai-Da Robot, an ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, paints during a press call at The British Library on April 4, 2022 in London, England. Hollie Adams/Getty Images hide caption

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin gestures as he thanks reporters for coming to a photo opportunity in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sept. 19, 1997. Jiang died on Nov. 30 at age 96. Will Burgess/Reuters hide caption

Bouquets of flowers are left near Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At least five people were killed and 18 wounded in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in the US city of Colorado Springs, police said on November 20, 2022. JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

President George W. Bush prepares for his State of the Union Speech with Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President, and Michael Gerson, Director of Presidential Speech Writing, outside the Oval Office January 29, 2002 in Washington DC. The White House/Getty Images hide caption

State Rep. Barbara Cooper, D-Memphis, watches the vote board as her bill to limit license restoration fees passes during House session on April 12, 2006 in Nashville, Tenn. Cooper, who served in the General Assembly, died on Oct. 25, 2022. She was 93. John Russell/AP hide caption

An artistic illustration of what the child could have looked like when alive and sleeping Tom Björklund hide caption