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    V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger—a dental assistant—on...
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    grabbed and kissed by Navy sailor George Mendonsa (1923–2019) in the iconic V-J Day in Times Square photograph of 1945 by Life magazine photographer Alfred...
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    over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing...
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  • photographs was V-J Day in Times Square, taken during the V-J Day celebration in New York City, showing an American sailor kissing a nurse in a "dancelike...
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    Eisenstaedt, VJ day in Times Square. However, they were said by Johnson to be based on a similar, lesser-known, photograph by Victor Jorgensen that is in the...
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  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (category Fictional depictions of Abraham Lincoln in film)
    Earhart. They evade Kahmunrah's soldiers inside the photograph of V-J Day in Times Square, leading Kahmunrah to enlist Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon Bonaparte...
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    same V-J Day embrace of a woman in a white dress by a sailor. Eisenstaedt's better known photograph, V-J Day in Times Square, was published in Life....
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    Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York...
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    One Times Square (also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, the Allied Chemical Tower or simply as the Times Tower)...
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  • The Kiss (Rodin sculpture), an 1889 sculpture by Auguste Rodin V-J Day in Times Square, a 1945 photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt Le Baiser de l'hôtel de...
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  • the subjects, revealed in Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photograph, VJ day in Times Square, that are represented identically in the statue. A spokesperson...
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    The Times Square–42nd Street station is a major New York City Subway station complex located under Times Square, at the intersection of 42nd Street, Seventh...
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  • Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery (category Landmarks in Dallas)
    (1927–2014), US Navy sailor known for being the subject of the V-J Day in Times Square photograph Pat Summerall (1930–2013), American football player...
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  • 4 Times Square (also known as 151 West 42nd Street or One Five One; formerly the Condé Nast Building) is a 48-story skyscraper at Times Square in the...
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    Kannapolis, North Carolina (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Glenn McDuffie, retired World War II sailor, picture subject of V-J Day in Times Square James McDuffie, North Carolina Senator Eddie Mills, actor Melissa...
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    woman in Alfred Eisenstaedt's photo V-J Day in Times Square. Gibson's forensic analysis compared the Eisenstaedt photographs with current-day photographs...
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    On May 1, 2010, a terrorist attack was attempted in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, United States. Two street vendors alerted NYPD after they spotted...
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    Victory Day is a holiday observed in the United States state of Rhode Island with state offices closed on the second Monday of August. Furthermore, in 2017...
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  • Mad About the Toy (category Television episodes set in Texas)
    episode but was asked to be in this episode when Grampa visits New York. In flashbacks, Grampa recreates the V-J Day in Times Square kiss with a random woman...
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  • New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that the freedom of speech protections in the First...
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  • Dancing Man (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    photos found in his possession during the administration of his estate support his assertion. V-J Day in Times Square, an image of V-J Day in Manhattan "Who...
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  • Grounds For Sculpture (category Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in New Jersey)
    Surrender sculpture, resembling the V-J Day in Times Square photograph taken during the VJ day celebration in Times Square was also on display at the GFS...
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    August 1945 (category Months in the 1940s)
    rule in Vietnam. Alfred Eisenstaedt took the V-J Day in Times Square photograph of an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress during V-J Day celebrations...
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  • New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the First Amendment right...
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    Rain Russell Drysdale – The Drover's Wife Alfred Eisenstaedt – V-J Day in Times Square (photograph) Max Ernst – The Temptation of Saint Anthony Nora Heysen...
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  • 1928, an express subway train derailed immediately after leaving the Times Square station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. Sixteen people were...
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  • School of Medicine. It was returned there in 2011. He has also analyzed the famous photograph V-J Day in Times Square and has concluded that the sailor depicted...
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  • The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news,...
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    The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China,...
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    3 Times Square, also known as the Thomson Reuters Building, is a 30-story skyscraper at Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York...
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