I love these photo-essays from the Atlantic. This photo of the cow and the chandelier is amazing: I wish they had more information about it. I did some sleuthing and couldn't find much more info than they provided. Great post.
These pictures are fantastic. The biggest surprise was #10. Two medical students and a professor in Kabul. Guess what gender? Where's their burkas? #20 A missile launcher on the beach in Key West, where I am now, writing this.
#42 The people of the anti-war movement and anti-nuclear-weapons movement were speaking out. This is a powerful picture. Picture #3: Dr. John W. Mauchly, inventor of some of the original room-size electronic computers, poses in Washington, DC, on November 2, 1962 with one the size of a suitcase after addressing a meeting of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. He now is working on a pocket variety which, he says, may eliminate the housewife's weekly shopping list and the chore of filling it by hand. He predicted everyone will be walking around with his own personalized computer within a decade.
It took longer than a decade, but ultimately he was right.