History favors the bold.
1. This group of workers suspended from the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1914.
2. W.H. Murphy and his associate demonstrating their bulletproof vest in 1923.
3. Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger playing a game of tennis on the wings of a biplane above Los Angeles in 1925.
4. This group of officials posing for a portrait during the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1935.
5. Nineteen-year-old Russian sniper Roza Shanina after 54 confirmed Nazi kills during World War II.
6. A London milkman sticking to his schedule despite the German bombing raid in 1940.
7. This PoW defiantly confronting Heinrich Himmler during an inspection in 1940-1941.
8. August Landmesser refusing to perform the Nazi salute at a crowded rally.
9. U.S. military raising the American flag on Iwo Jima in February, 1945.
10. Red Army soldiers hoisting a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945.
11. Rosa Parks’s mugshot in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
12. The Little Rock Nine being followed and threatened by an angry white mob in 1957.
13. This doctor who was forced to perform surgery on himself as the only surgeon on staff.
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