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The gold-medal winning U.S. rowing team — coxswain at lower left — at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Danny Moloschok/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
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Winner of masquerade contest at a Halloween party in 1939 in Missouri. Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress hide caption
Evelyn FitzGerald, 2 months old, is in a Princess Leia — of Star Wars renown — costume made from recycled clothes by her mother Shenandoah Brettell of El Segundo, Calif. "I made the wig out of yarn and the belt out of felt," says Shenandoah, who listens to NPR member station KPCC. Shenandoah Brettell hide caption
Girl Scouts model contemporary uniforms. From Girl Scouts of the USA website hide caption
A yarmulke produced from a 3-D printer. Craig Kaplan hide caption
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Necessary steps: A mourner dressed in period clothes for the Corcoran's mock funeral. Photo by Caroline Lacey hide caption
Sonoma Retreat by Aidlin Darling Marion Brenner/Courtesy of ASLA hide caption
Supporters of Hillary Clinton wait as pro-Clinton volunteers hand out posters and bumper stickers at George Washington University in Washington on June 13. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Darlene Wagner, Kelley Winters and Monica Helms. Courtesy of Monica Helms hide caption
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Michael J. Fox and his vest in the 1985 movie Back to the Future. Amblin/Universal/The Kobal Collection hide caption
The hummingbird moth — Hemaris thysbe. Courtesy of Elena Tartaglia hide caption
