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August Agbola O'Browne was the only known black person to fight in the Warsaw Uprising. He was born in Nigeria and was a traveling jazz musician until he settled in Poland. He worked with the resistance and survived the 1944 uprising against the Germans.

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He later moved to Britain and spent the rest of his life anonymously. His story wasn't discovered until 2010, and in 2019 a monument to his memory was erected in downtown Warsaw.

Syrian archaeologist Khaled Al Asaad who devoted his life to the excavation and restoration of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He was beheaded by ISIS after refusing to disclose the location of ancient artifacts, despite a month of torture. He died a hero of heritage protection.

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Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so.

Olympian legend Jim Thorpe had his running shoes stolen the morning of the 1912 Olympics. He found two mismatched shoes in a garbage bin and wore them, winning one silver and two gold medals.

A World War I soldier wearing a steel armor cap (worn under the regular ordinance cap), splinter goggles to protect the eyes from shrapnel, and a steel dagger gauntlet, ca. 1917

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Rose Valland was a French art historian and member of the French resistance who during World War II secretly catalogued the Nazis pillaging of French artwork from professional and private (often Jewish) collectors, this information was instrumental in the recovery of over 60,000 pieces of art.

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Rose was not a woman who came from a privileged upbringing and her station within the art world was limited prior to World War II due to the fact that she didn’t have a network to rely on to become a curator of art at the major Parisian museums. Despite this she worked tirelessly and was placed in a paid position at the Jeu De Paume museum in Paris during the nazi occupation. The museum was used as the central hub for information and storage of artwork pillaged from both public and private collections. In secret she began to record the coming and goings of over 20,000 pieces of artwork, often speaking with truck drivers and train conductors to map out where the pieces of art were going and documented everything. She did this at great personal risk because if she was ever discovered by her Nazi bosses she would at minimum be arrested and in all likelihood be executed for attempting to aid the enemies of the Nazi party. She was also an informant to French underground resistance. This information was eventually presented to Captain James Rorimer of the US Army Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives program and led to the discovery of several massive repositories of fine arts such as at the salt mine of Altausse and Neuschwanstein Castle. She served as a witness against Hermann Goering during his post-war trials at Nuremberg. It was estimated that the information she retrieved and provided led to the discovery of 60,000 works of art, 45,000 of which were returned to their rightful owners prior to 1950. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Valland