Her truth is bigger than legend; plus, D-Day's anniversary
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| | Maybe it’s true: Anything you can do, Annie Oakley could do better.
The sharpshooter and star Wild West performer (pictured above), the subject of the 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, actually defeated Buffalo Bill Cody’s best marksman in a shoot-off (the play had her intentionally losing to protect his ego).
“Her tenacity and determination have become an inspiration for many,” Nat Geo’s Emily Martin writes, noting her continued representation in film, TV, and Broadway revivals. In 1997, the Annie song “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)” inspired a wildly popular Michael Jordan-Mia Hamm battle-of-the-sexes commercial.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH VIA BETTMANN/GETTY | | More than a performer: For years, Oakley (pictured above around 1918) spent two hours each morning teaching free shooting classes to women—and she repeatedly urged U.S. military authorities to create all-women fighting units.
At top is a portrait from the 1880s.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY GRANGER/ALBUM | | D-Day secrets revealed: Some planning details from the mammoth Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II had been secret for decades. Those plans for D-Day—78 years ago today—managed to catch Nazi Germany by surprise. Gen. Erwin Rommel knew an invasion was coming, but thought a storm would preclude it on June 6, Nat Geo wrote. “He had warned a fellow officer that their only chance was to stop the enemy in the water. Now nearly 160,000 Allied troops had landed.” (Pictured above, U.S Army troops wade ashore on Omaha Beach on D-Day.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY NICHOLE SOBECKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | I am who I am: A non-binary Ugandan refugee stands outside the safe house that was founded for often persecuted LGBTQ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya. This previously unpublished portrait from 2020 was recently featured in our Photo of the Day archival collection. Photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Nichole Sobecki made this image as part of her work on how COVID-19 was affecting Kenya.
Related: 12 LGBTQ+ figures who changed the world
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 | | Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time, and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming … for only practice will make you perfect. | | | | Annie Oakley | Sharpshooter, ‘Wild West’ star performer
From: The true story of Annie Oakley, legendary sharpshooter
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 | | IMAGE COURTESY OF ALAMY/ACI | | A revolutionary superstar: Sure, it was six centuries ago, but artist Albrecht Dürer was able to spread his work far and wide with prints of iconic work. The 1513 work pictured above, “Knight, Death, and the Devil,” made with a V-tipped gouging tool, was a breakthrough. “Dürer created astonishing varieties of texture in the knight’s armor and leather boot, the fur of the dog, and the horse’s lustrous coat. For many art historians, the technical skill he demonstrated in this work has never been equaled,” Nat Geo’s History magazine writes.
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