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Striking photos show the Kurdish women fighting ISIS

Long before the U.S. announced its plans in 2015 to allow women in combat roles, women Kurdish were fighting against ISIS. The YPJ is the sister group to the mainstream Kurdish, all-male YPG militia and they have been part of a crucial mission to protect a key energy source.

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Born on this day in 1908, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson famously captured fleeting moments with a 35mm Leica camera, which he described as “the velvet hand… the hawk’s eye.”

“Cardinal Pacelli (Later Pope Pius XII) at Montmartre, Paris,” 1938, by Henri Cartier-Bresson (© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos)

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Evening, Amiens Cathedral, France

Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906)

Atkinson Art Gallery Collection

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George Hoyningen-Huene :: Virginia Kent and Peggy Leaf, Paris, 1934

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Henri Wolf-Vienna Ferris Wheel from Orson Welles “The Third Man”, 1957.

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Happy 170th Birthday, @smithsonian!

Happy Birthday to the Smithsonian! Our neighbors on the National Mall were founded on August 10, 1846, when Congress passed legislation creating the Smithsonian Institution as an establishment dedicated to the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

The first two photographs, from the Mathew Brady collection, were taken during the Civil War, when what is now the National Mall was still decades away and only “The Castle,” built in 1855, is standing. The aerial photo from 1929 shows a more familiar National Mall with what is now the National Museum of Natural History and the Arts and Industries Building.

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, 1921 - 1940. Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, 1921 - 1940. Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Aerial Photograph of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC Series: “Airscapes” of American and Foreign Areas, 1917 - 1964 Record Group 18: Records of the Army Air Forces, ca. 1902 - 1964 (This photograph was taken by the Army Air Corps stationed at Bolling Field. The photograph includes the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Arts and Industries Building, the U.S. National Museum, and Center Market.)