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Fat Bear Week is a celebration of nature's biggest bears, like the chunky specimen pictured above.

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Jim Morrison and his The Doors band mates—Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger—pose for their first album cover in 1967.

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Laika, the first dog to go to space.

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Keith Morrison discusses Dateline NBC in New York City.

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Roomba's new vacuum might be poop-proof.

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The face that launched a thousand angry letters.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet at the Oscars in 2016.

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Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin star in Midnight Run (1988).

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Jim Henson attends the 1985 BAFTA Awards at London's Grosvenor Hotel.

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