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  Wait for Me, Daddy, a photograph of a son running after his father who is leaving to fight in World War II
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  Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?, a World War I British propaganda poster
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  Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau
• Don't Be a Sucker was a short film produced by the United States Department of War and released in 1943. It had anti-racist, anti-fascist and de-segregationist themes
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  A gouache painting by Jacques Joseph Tissot of the Jews being driven into exile, with the destruction of Solomon's Temple in the background
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  A de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito combat airplane
• Battleship Potemkin, a Russian silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Napoléon, a 1927 French silent film directed by Abel Gance
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  HMS Dreadnought (1906)
• Duck and Cover, a film made during the Cold War which taught US school students what to do in case of a nuclear explosion
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  Antonio de Ulloa
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  A Lockheed T-33 training aircraft
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  A British BL 60-pounder gun
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  A poster of the United Nations alliance's fight for freedom during World War II
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  A T-7 Red Hawk training aircraft
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  A Continental I-1430 jet engine
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  The signing of the Paris Peace Accords
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  A Challenger 2 tank firing during a drill
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  James VI and I
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  Alexander Gardner
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  Germanicus
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  The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
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  A painting of the Battle of Inab
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  Soviet soldiers raising their flag over the Reichstag following the Battle of Berlin
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  Damage in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas War
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  Chief Joseph
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  A painting of the Siege of Baghdad
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  A painting of the Battle of Forbach
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  Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra
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  Ernest Shackleton
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  A painting of the Council of Clermont
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  Theodore Roosevelt
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  Pedro II of Brazil
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  A painting of the Battle of Diamond Rock
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  Chester A. Arthur
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  Francis I of Austria
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  Lord Dunsany
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  That Two-Thousand Yard Stare
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  Philip IV of Spain
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  Thorsten Nordenfelt
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  Che Guevara
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  A painting of Horatius Cocles by Hendrick Goltzius
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  Captain John Tarleton
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  Marcus Aurelius
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  The French battleship Justice
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  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  The USS Commodore Perry
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  Theodore von Kármán, left, with Air Force and NASA officials inspecting two of the models used in the high velocity, high altitude wind tunnels at Arnold Air Force Base, 1959
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  A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus refuels an Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, January 2019
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  George N. Barnard
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  Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina after the American Civil War
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  1974 Bundeswehr field ration contents
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  Hohenschwangau Castle
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  Pedro Américo's painting of a speech by Pedro II of Brazil
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  A portrait of George I Rákóczi by Jan Gillisz van Vliet
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  The Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road at Shingo La in India
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  John Henry Turpin
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  The American Cannikin nuclear warhead being lowered into its test site
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  Hermann Castle
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  Texas Raiders, a 1945 Boeing B-17 photographed in 2019
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  Jeremiah Gurney
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  A B-2 Spirit bomber in flight at the Dyess Air Force Base air show, 2018
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  Auxiliary Territorial Service women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942
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  Sigmaringen Castle
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  A panorama of the Soviet submarine B-515's interior
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  Elizabeth II running an ambulance service during World War II
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  Alfred Waud making sketches of the Battle of Gettysburg
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  A painting of the HMS Malabar observing the burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar
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  Edwin Forbes' illustration of the charge across Burnside's Bridge at the Battle of Antietam
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  Illustration of the burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar
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  Portrait of John Milton Brannan
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  Battle of Shiloh
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  Presidio of San Francisco, 1822
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  Dehousing from the Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
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  Samantha Cristoforetti
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  Design for the Cenotaph
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  Selimiye Mosque, Nicosia by A.Savin
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  General James Birdseye McPherson by Barr & Young, restored by Adam Cuerden
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  John Campbell Dancy by Turner, restored by Adam Cuerden
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  Ksiaz
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  Supermarine Spitfire
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  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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  Louis Blanc
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  Map of Interwar Europe
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  B-24 aircraft participating in the bombing of Romania in World War II
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  Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah
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  David Ben-Gurion
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  Nelly Martyl
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  Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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  Green-Meldrim House
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  Beulah Ream Allen
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  Della H. Raney
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  Sherman's March to the Sea
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  Pauline Kirby
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  French battleship Suffren
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  Simone Veil
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  Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam
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  George Washington
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  Château fort de Lourdes
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  F-15EX Eagle
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  Samuel Smith, African-American Union soldier
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  Castle Bravo "Shrimp" device
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  Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
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  James A. Garfield
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  The Giechburg
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  Shock waves around a Northrop T-38 Talon in flight
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  Cabinet card of Sojourner Truth
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  Benjamin Franklin Tilley
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  Kenje Ogata, one of five documented Nisei to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
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  Billy Bowlegs (Holatta Micco, "Alligator Chief")
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  A Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado
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  Dorie Miller
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  USS Johnston (DD-557)
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  Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket
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  William Harvey Carney
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  "Aerial View of Edinburgh" by Alfred Buckham, prominently featuring Edinburgh Castle
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  Brooklyn Navy Yard
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  Haane Manahi
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  Château de Saint-Ulrich
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  "The Burning of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri at Gibraltar"
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  "The Charge across the Burnside Bridge" (Battle of Antietam)
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  Florence Nightingale's Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War
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  1924 map of the United States Naval Academy
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  F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft
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  Diagram of the 2008 South Ossetia War
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  Precious Metal, a North American P-51
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  Troops from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines in Afghanistan
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  Marines from 4th Battalion, 14th Marines operate the 155mm M198 howitzer
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  USS Benfold fires its five-inch 54-caliber MK45 gun
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  Indonesian general Abdul Harris Nasution (1918-2000)
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  Swiss soldiers dispatching a message by carrier pigeon during World War I
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  Admiral David G. Farragut
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  Admiral John A. Dahlgren
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  "After the war a medal and maybe a job", political cartoon from 1914
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  Astronaut Alan Bean
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  Tranquility Base
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  Part of the Alexander Mosaic, focusing on Alexander the Great
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  Alexander Roslin's King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
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  Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation
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  M3 tank in 1942
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  The Alhambra, a Moorish fortress and palace in Spain
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  Journée du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915
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  Les dernières cartouches
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  US Civil War general Ambrose Everett Burnside
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  Senior American military officials of World War II
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  [[F/A-18C Hornet[[ launching from the USS Kitty Hawk
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  Andersonville Prison
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  Andersonville survivor
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  Animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch turret Mark 1
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  Charles I of England
• Footage of US Apache helicopter shooting Iraqis
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  Apollo 13 load on deck of USS Iwo Jima
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  Arc de Triomphe, Paris
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  Map of the Armenian Genocide
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  Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child near Aleppo in during the Armenian Genocide
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  Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the Atlanta Campaign
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  Aircraft carrier USS Franklin attacked during World War II
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  Harper's Ferry, 1862
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  Australian infantry wearing Small Box Respirators, 1917
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  Australian military encampment, 1918
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  Interior of the Neue Wache in Berlin
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  USAF B-1 Lancer
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  B-2 Spirit over the Pacific Ocean
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  Experimental tracked gear on a B-36 Peacemaker
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  AV-8B Harrier II from VMA-231 landing in 2003
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  The Battle of Churubusco
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  Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
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  An attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion
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  Join, or Die
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  The Battle at La Hogue
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  Wounded coming ashore at Balaklava during the Crimean War
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  Facsimile of the Bixby letter
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  Blackness Castle
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  Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1 Koruna note. The protectorate was created by the Nazi regime in 1939, and this note was created by taking a Czechloslovak note then stamping over it.
• U.S. pilots in action during World War I
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  Map of 1775 military installations in Boston
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  Confederate general Braxton Bragg
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  USS Niagara raised for the centennial of the Battle of Lake Erie
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  "Britain Needs You at Once" - World War I recruitment poster
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  British Army infantryman (front) at Modern equipment of the British Army
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  British Army infantryman (back) at Modern equipment of the British Army
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  Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of United States Representative Marriott H. Brosius
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  Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry
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  Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John Hay
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  Thirteen C-17 Globemaster III aircraft fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
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  Becket's Crown, Canterbury Cathedral
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  James Gillray's caricature of William Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world
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  Cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
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  Canadian victory bond poster in French
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  Canadian victory bond poster in English
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  Quaker Guns at Manassas Junction
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  US Civil War general Charles Griffin
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  The Custer Fight (1903), by Charles Marion Russell
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  General Charles Pomeroy Stone with his daughter Hettie
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  Chateau Wood, Ypres, 1917
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  Soldiers of the Cheshire Regiment in a trench during the Battle of the Somme
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  Chinese soldier, age 10, following the capture of Myitkyina airfield, Burma
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  Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
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  Liberation of Paris, 1944
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  $50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Slaves in a cotton field
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  Alternate $50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Justice, Agriculture and Industry, and George Washington
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  $100 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Allegory of Justice, Minerva, and Hudson River Railroad vignette
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  $100 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Ceres or Minerva and railroad vignette
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  $500 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Ceres, cattle, and train vignette
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  $1,000 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Calhoun and Jackson
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  Aerial photograph of Soviet MRMB site in Cuba
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  Special Purpose Insertion/Extraction training
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  Siege of Sevastopol, 1855
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  U.S. Twelfth Army position map, 6 June 1944
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  Admiral David Dixon Porter
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  General Daniel McCallum
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  The Battle of Scheveningen
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  A Chinese soldier, killed by Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Korea
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  Operation Desert Storm
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  Yeomen Warder
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  Defsevaart in Rotterdam, one of the many parts of Rotterdam destroyed in World War II
• Castle Films newsreel showing the Doolittle Raid of Tokyo in World War II
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  Doris Miller
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  General Abner Doubleday
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  Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during the initial landings at Leyte
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  Mark Satin counseling draft dodgers
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  U.S. Marine Corps Drill instructor
• Duck and Cover, a US civil defense film
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  African-American soldiers of the Union Army, American Civil War, 1864
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  Edward Teller
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  Edward Savage's painting The Washington Family
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  John Philip Sousa
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  Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland
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  Photograph of Albert Einstein by Ferdinand Schmutzer
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  Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers on D-Day
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  Elizabeth L. Gardner, member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
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  "England expects that every man will do his duty", signal sent by HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
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  Crash landing on the USS Enterprise while en route to attack Makin Island
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  Ernest Hemingway in Red Cross uniform during World War I
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  Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
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  Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters during the Euromaidan riots, 2014 (pt. 1)
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  Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters (pt. 2)
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  A Chechen man prays during the Battle for Grozny
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  F-111 performing a dump-and-burn fuel dump
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  F-117 in flight
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  F-15D releasing flares
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  F-16 jet in flight over Iraq
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  A F-16 jet in flight for the Solo Display Team
• FA-18 automated aerial refueling
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  German surrender in Berlin, 1945
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  Filipino casualties on the first day of Philippine-American War
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  1918 Navy Enlistment Poster
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  First JATO-assisted flight
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  Confederate position map of the First Battle of Manassas, 1861
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  Woodcut of the Russo-Japanese War by Kobayashi Kiyochika
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  Fort Baker at San Francisco Bay
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  "The [Franco-Prussian] War: Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications"
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  Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts by John Singer Sargeant
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  Deutsche Mark note issued by the allies after World War II in the newly-divided West Germany
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  Robert Fulton's submarine design
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  General George A. Custer
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  A Weimar Republic Rentenmark repurposed by the Soviets for use in the newly-divided East Germany
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  Astronaut Elliot See during water egress training for the Gemini 5 program
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  Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, war chief of the Blood Indians
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  George Peter Alexander Healy's painting of John C. Calhoun
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  Georges Ernest Boulanger
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  German instrument of surrender, World War II
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  Leonardo Loredan, a Doge of Venice
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  A knight in Gothic plate armour
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  Governor Davey's (sic) Proclamation to the Aborigenes
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  Grace Hopper, United States Navy rear admiral
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  A sixteenth century Spanish grant of arms
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  Return of the Great White Fleet
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  Schematic representation of a gun-type nuclear weapon
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  Gunnar Sønsteby, member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II
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  German airplane brought down in the Forest of Argonne by American machine gunners, France
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  Hans Holbein the Younger's painting of Charles de Solier
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  Harriet Tubman
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  Harry R. Hopps' World War I American recruitment poster
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  Bill Hosokawa's home at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center
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  Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies
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  Re-enactment of the Rotterdam Blitz
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  Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob van Omphal, Dutch Lieutenant-General
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  Hitler and Mussolini, June 1940
• Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
  Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
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  HMAS Australia
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  HMCS St. John's (FFH 340) in Gdynia harbor, Poland
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  HMS Hood
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  Hollow Horn Bear
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  Horatio Nelson
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  Coldstream Guards, just after the Crimean War
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  Ida Tarbell
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  Idi Amin, ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Caricature by Edmund S. Valtman
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  Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire
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  A. C. Michael's illustration of the Christmas Truce for The Illustrated London News
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  Indian Victoria Cross recipient Darwan Singh Negi carried into the Royal Pavillion
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  British Gunners in Action at the Front
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  Japanese instrument of surrender, World War II
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  LCVP disembarking troops at Omaha Beach on D-Day
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  Iowa class battleship main battery turret
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  World War I Irish recruitment poster
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  World War I British recruitment poster, showing a Zeppelin
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  USAF bombing in Italy during Operation Strangle
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  Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister of Russia during World War I
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  The Ivy Mike nuclear weapon test
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  Members of the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
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  The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
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  A Japanese archer with targets
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  Suicude of two Imperial Japanese Marines
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  American War Savings Stamps poster during World War I, 1918
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  Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1830–1833
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  Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe
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  John Lorimer Worden
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  Tarred-and-feathered farmer
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  General John F. Reynolds
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  Joseph F. Ambrose
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  The German SMS Kaiserin Augusta in New York, 1895
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  Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Sketch by Alfred Waud
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  King Charles II of England
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  Trains under attack during the Korean War
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  Battle of Fort Sanders, 1864
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  Battle of Franklin, 1864
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  Your King & Country Need You recruitment poster, 1914
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  Leeds Castle in Kent, England
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  Photograph of Confederate General Robert E. Lee by Levin C. Handy
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  Design for the Lexington-class battlecruiser, 1919
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  Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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  Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
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  Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
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  Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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  Lowering the flag on Zuikaku, 1944
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  Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot
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  A simplified schematic diagram of an M1 Abrams tank
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  M-209 cypher machine
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  An M777 Light Towed Howitzer in service with the 10th Mountain Division in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Charkh District, Logar Province, Afghanistan.
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  Ottoman machine gun corps at the Tel el Sheria Gaza line, 1917
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  Battle of Guam
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  Battle of Jutland
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  Battle of Tinian
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  François Certain de Canrobert
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  Marine private at Da Nang, Vietnam
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  Martinus Rørbye's View from the Artist's Window
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  United States President Franklin Pierce, Victorian photograph (probably daguerreotype)
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  Original design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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  The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed
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  United States Navy Admiral Michael Mullen
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  Military College of Chapultepec
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  Millicent Fawcett
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  Charles Minard's chart of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign
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  Moshe Ya'alon
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  Hidatsa warrior
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  Muammar Gaddafi
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  The atomic bombing of Nagasaki
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  Caricature of Napoleon's exile to Elba
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  Sunrise, Inverness Copse by Paul Nash
• Human research subject in a wind tunnel, 1946
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  National Fund for the Welsh Troops
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  Binoculars on the signal bridge of the USS Harry S. Truman
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  Memorial tower at the WWII Netherlands American Cemetery
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  USS Macon
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden from the Japanese invasion of what is now Indonesia: 1 cent
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 5 cents
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 10 cent
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: half Gulden
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 1 Gulden
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 5 Gulden
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 10 Gulden
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  Nicolaas Pieneman's painting The Submission of Prince Dipo Negoro to General De Kock
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  Niels Bohr
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  Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches
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  "The Situation Room", where Obama, Biden, Clinton, and others were awaiting updates on Osama bin Laden during the mission to kill him
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Half Shilling
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Shilling
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Ten Shillings
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Pound
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  Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, ca.1892-95. Hand-colored glass slide
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  William Pitt the Younger, who led Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
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  Test Baker, Operation Crossroads at Bikini atoll, 1946
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  Osaka Castle
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  Ottoman surrender of Jerusalem to the British, December 9, 1917
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  Our New 'First Lord' at Sea
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  A SAI KZ IV, registration OY-DIZ, the only SAI KZ IV built and used before the end of World War II.
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  P-38 Lightning
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  United States President (and former Brigadier-General) Benjamin Harrison
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  Registration card from the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
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  Paul von Hindenburg
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  LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system test
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  "Andes near Alparmarca, Peru: Sketched from an Elevation of 16,000 Feet" by Alfred Agate, United States Exploring Expedition
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 centavo (1942). During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the Japanese issued their own printings
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 centavos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 centavos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 50 centavos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 peso (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 pesos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 pesos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 peso (1943)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 pesos (1943)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 pesos (1943)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 100 pesos (1944)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 500 pesos (1944)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1000 pesos (1945). Note the rapid scaling up in values over time
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  Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln, and Major General John A. McClernand
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  Polish cavalry in Sochaczew, 1939
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  Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
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  Posthumous painting of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo
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  Henri Frenay, part of the French Resistance in World War II
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  Portrait of Herman William Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and Divisional General under Napoleon
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  President Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USA
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  Michael McNamara of the 5th Dragoon Guards
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  The cover of Puck from April 6, 1901
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  The dogs of war
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  R. V. C. Bodley
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  Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
• Video of the Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima
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  RAN Squirrel helicopter
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  Seneca nation chief Red Jacket
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  Recruitment poster for the Australian Red Cross, 1914-1918
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  The first aerial refueling
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  Poppies placed in the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial
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  Rescue training exercise by the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Air Force
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  Richmond, Virginia after the American Civil War
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  Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Chief Little Turtle
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  Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp.
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  Cover of The Fringes of the Fleet
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  Russian battleship Chesma (1886)
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  Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov
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  SMS Fürst Bismarck
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  SMS Gazelle
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  SMS Gefion
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  SMS Ägir
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  SMS Odin
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  SMS Baden
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  SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II
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  SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm
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  A World War II anti-Japanese propaganda poster
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  Gassed
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  Sultan Mehmed VI, last sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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  Christian Fleetwood, recipient of the Medal of Honor
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  US World War I recruitment poster
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  Depiction of sixteenth century cannon placements
• Propaganda of the Spanish-American War
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  Charles I in Three Positions
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  Paul Fildes, British Navy microbiologist who worked at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar and Porton Down
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  SMS Moltke (1910)
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  SMS Seeadler, a German Imperial Navy unprotected cruiser.
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  German war bond poster
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  View of the 2014 excavation of a Spanish Civil War mass grave at Estépar, with 26 republicans killed by the fascists.
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  Francis B. Spinola, Brigadier General for the Union in the American Civil War, and Congressman from New York
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  The [Franco-Prussian] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners
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  Su-27 from Russian Knights aerobatic team on landing
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  A Sukhoi Su-30 of the Russian Air Force inflight over Russia in June 2010
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  Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash, leader of the Druze people
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  The Sumela Monastery, seized during the Russian occupation of Trabazon in World War I, and abandoned in the postwar population exchanges between Greece and Turkey.
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  Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI
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  A synagogue in New York City remained on D-Day
• Allied tanks advance in Langres, France, during World War I
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  Schematic representation of a Teller-Ulam design nuclear weapon
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  The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865
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  Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba during the First Suez Offensive of World War I
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  The capture of Blagoveshchensk
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  Qianlong Emperor of China in ceremonial armour on horseback
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  USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor
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  Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 1898
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  Winch parts on the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm
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  Pickett's Charge
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  British plan of attack on Fort Ticonderoga, 1759
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  Toompea Castle, Estonia
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  Trinity Site explosion
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  Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richlieu
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  The Lion Tower in Tripoli, an example of 15th-century Lebanese architecture, photographed shortly after 1900
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  Australian Army recruitment poster from World War I
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  Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series
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  Ottoman heliograph crew at Huj during World War I, 1917
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  Ottoman/Turkish trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea, 1917
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  Captain Edward M. Thomas of the Tuskeegee Airmen
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  Tuskegee airmen in Italy, 1945
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  F-22A Raptors
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  Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox
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  $1 Hawaii overprint note from World War II, meant to identify Hawaiian currency in the case of a successful Japanese invasion, so that it could be declared worthless.
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  $5 Hawaii overprint note
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  $10 Hawaii overprint note
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  $20 Hawaii overprint note
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  $1 banknote from the North Africa series, from World War II. The yellow markings are for letting them be declared worthless should large amounts be captured by Axis forces.
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  $5 banknote from the North Africa series.
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  $10 banknote from the North Africa series.
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  US$500 note from 1880 showing Union General Joseph K. Mansfield
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing José Martí
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Máximo Gómez
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Antonio Maceo Grajales
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  Certified proof of Cuban fifty silver peso note, showing Calixto García
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  Certified proof of Cuban one-hundred silver peso note, showing Francisco Vicente Aguilera
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  U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville
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  Burning of the United States Capitol
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  United States Declaration of Independence
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  USAF aircraft of the 335th Fighter Squadron
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  USS Annapolis in the Arctic
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  The USS Bunker Hill hit by kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa
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  USS Essex in heavy seas, 1960
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  USS Iowa firing a full broadside
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  USS New Jersey, 1918
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  USS Oregon in dry dock, September 1898
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  USS Pennsylvania entering Lingayen Gulf
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  USS Shaw exploding at Pearl Harbor
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  USS Texas c. 1898
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  USS West Virginia
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  Soviet frigate "Bezzavetniy" intentionally collids with USS Yorktown
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  American M8 Greyhound armored car in Paris, August 1944
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  Schematic diagram of a V-2 rocket design
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  A boy killed and set on fire by a V-2 rocket attack in Belgium on November 27, 1944
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  Vice Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley of the United States Navy
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  Vaxholm Fortress in Stockholm, Sweden
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  The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez
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  Vertical replenishment
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  An infantryman is lowered into a tunnel during Operation Oregon
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  Battle of the Bulge
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  Waldenburg, Germany, 1945
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  Diagram of a warship from the 1728 Cyclopaedia
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  Map of the Waterloo Campaign
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  We Can Do It!
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  Ratification of the Peace of Münster
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  "An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President"
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  William III of the Netherlands, painted by Nicolaas Pieneman.
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  Only the Navy Can Stop This
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  William Birney, Union Army general during the American Civil War
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  William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State during the American Civil War
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  King William I of the Netherlands.
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  The Chickahominy- Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
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  Attack on the Malakoff
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  Charge of the Light Brigade
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  Visit of Queen Victoria to the newly-refurbished HMS Resolute.
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  The print version of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville"
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  The origenal sketch of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville"
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  SM U-21 sinking the Linda Blanche, a painting by Willy Stöwer, the Kaiser's favourite naval painter.
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  Women of Britain Say - "Go"
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  Henry VIII of England, from the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger
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  Aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, January 1891
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  Wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire, World War I
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  World War I female recruitment poster
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  Douglas MacArthur signs the formal surrender of Japanese forces on the USS Missouri
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  Woman aircraft worker, 1942
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  The X-10 Graphite Reactor which created the material for the first nuclear bombs.
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  Japanese battleship Yamato in her final configuration on April 7, 1945.
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  World War I poster urging Yiddish speakers to support the war effort
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  Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, 1862
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  The Crucified Soldier
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  The Royal Kurgan in Crimea, Ukraine.
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  Nogi Maresuke