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Gemini 12 space capsule orbiting above Earth, November 13, 1966, Buzz Aldrin

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German police arrest protester

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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

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Buddhist monks in a doorway of the ruins of the Bayon at Angkor, Cambodia, W.E. Garrett

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Built as a bathing house by Earl Grey at Howick, England

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Vivian Meier

CHICAGO (AP) ? Yawning gaps in the life story of enigmatic Chicago nanny Vivian Maier, whose gritty street photography became a sensation and the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary only after she died, led to early depictions of her as a camera-wielding Mary Poppins who may not have fully grasped nor cultivated her raw talent.

But new research reveals the French-speaking Maier as obsessive about honing her craft starting in 1950. Within years, the self-taught Maier had so mastered photography she often took just one shot to capture streetscape images heralded by critics more than five decades later.

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https://apnews.com/9a309946bf4d4d79a677dc416a15d67e/AP-Exclusive:-Chicago-nanny-no-accidental-photographer

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V. M.

I think the ironic, Mona Lisa smile which often painted her face in many of her nearly countless self-portraits was because of the joke she got that no one around her understood; she knew she was that damn good. And the joke was that eventually somebody else would develop some of those rolls and discover her little secret.