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background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090220.html?th&emc=th"><B>Ansel Adams</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090220.html?th&emc=th"><FONT size="-1"> 2/20/1902 - 4/22/1984<BR /> American photographer </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090220.html?th&emc=th"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/3A2B010E-A2B3-440F-8269-F5A71CCC6608" alt="NYT Front Page" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090220.html?th&emc=th"><B>1792</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090220.html?th&emc=th"><B>1809</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090220.html?th&emc=th"><B>1839</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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