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Born Robert Zimmermann, Bob Dylan borrowed his name from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas — an apt homage, given Dylan’s status as the bard of the ’60s protest movement. Both politically and artistically courageous, Dylan first took on the establishment with folk-inflected — yet razor-sharp — songs like “Blowing in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” but throughout a career marked by regular reinvention, he has steadfastly refused to subjugate his own muse to anyone else’s cause or expectations.
(read more — Heroes of the 1960s)
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What’s not to love about this photo? Just strollin’ with some penguins in 1937…
(see more — Penguins Round the World)
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50 extraordinary photographs that quite literally brought war — every war — home to millions of Americans.
In this Eddie Adams’ now-legendary picture of South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the casual brutality of the act shocked viewers around the world — and called into question America’s alliance with a military force for which summary execution seemed a matter of little consequence.
(see more — 50 Photos That Brought War Home)
