The First Google Team in 1999

The First Google Team in 1999.

The Beatles walking back the other way on Abbey Road, 1969

The Beatles walking back the other way on Abbey Road, 1969. Photo: Iain Macmillan/Bloomsbury Auctions.

R.I.P Nelson Mandela (1918-2013): A Life in Photographs

Nelson Mandela died on Thursday, at the age of ninety-five. Here is a look back at his life, from his early days as an activist in apartheid-era South Africa to his historic Presidency and emergence as a world leader.

A 1962 portrait of Nelson Mandela wearing the traditional outfit of the Thembu tribe which he came from.

Mandela, then acting as a defense lawyer, outside the Drill Hall during the Treason Trial, the first major trial for treason in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1961. Photograph by Ian Berry/Magnum.

Mandela and his second wife, Winnie Madikizela, on their wedding day, in Pondoland, South Africa, June, 1958. Photograph: API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty.

Mandela, second from right, a leader of the African National Congress, and other activists who were charged with treason by the South African government walk to their trial, in 1956. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty.

Mandela’s former cell, in Section B in the political prisoners’ area on Robben Island, off Cape Town. Photograph by Matt Shonfeld/Redux.

Tsar Nicholas II goofing around with his friend in 1899

Tsar Nicholas II goofing around with his friend in 1899.

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Queen Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle, 1993

Queen Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle. Surrey, England, 1993.

Opening the Mona Lisa at the end of WWII, 1945

On the eve of World War II, curators at the Louvre swathed the museum’s most priceless painting – the “Mona Lisa” – in layers of waterproof paper, boxed it up, and spirited it to the French countryside for safekeeping. Leonardo da Vinci’s smiling maiden moved another five times during the war before she was brought, safe and sound, back to the Louvre.

A visitor looked at a photo of the ”Mona Lisa” being unpacked at the end of World War II. (Remy De La Mauviniere/ Associated Press)

Return of the Mona Lisa at the end of World War Two. — On the eve of war, curators at the Louvre swathed the museum’s most priceless painting in layers of waterproof paper, boxed it up and spirited it to the French countryside for safekeeping. The painting was moved another five times during the war before she was safely returned to the Louvre after the Liberation.

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