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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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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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Admiral Farragut
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"After the war a medal and maybe a job", political cartoon from 1914
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Part of the Alexander Mosaic, focusing on Alexander the Great
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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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Footage of US Apache helicopter shooting Iraqis
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Apollo13 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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An attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion
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Join or Die
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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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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.
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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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Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of United States Representative Marriott H. Brosius, who served during the American Civil War
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Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry
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Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John Hay, also later Secretary of State under McKinley and Rooseveldt
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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. Becket was murdered by four knights of Henry II of England, and during the Dissolution of the Monasteries three hundred sixty-eight years later, was put on trial for treason by Henry VIII of England.
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James Gillray's caricature shows William Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world.
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Cavalry at Balaklava
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Canadian victory bond poster in French
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Canadian victory bond poster in English
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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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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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$500 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Ceres, cattle, and train vignette
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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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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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Defsevaart in Rotterdam, one of the many parts of Rotterdam destroyed in World War II.
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Castle Films newsreel showing the Doolittle Raid of Tokyo in World War II, the first bomber raid launched from carrier ships.
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Abner Doubleday
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Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte
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Mark Satin counseling draft dodgers
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Drill instructor
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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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Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland
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Photograph of Albert Einstein by Ferdinand Schmutzer. Einstein, of course, was one of the scientists who developed the nuclear bomb during World War II.
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Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers on D-Day
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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
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Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters during the February 2014 Euromaidan riots (pt. 1)
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Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters during the February 2014 Euromaidan riots (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-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
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FA-18 automated aerial refueling
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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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Deutsche Mark note issued by the allies in 1948, just 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 Custer
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A Weimar Republic Rentenmark repurposed by the Soviets in 1948 (by adding a stamp!) for use in the newly-divided East Germany.
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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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German instrument of surrender, World War II
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Doge of Venice Leonardo Loredan, whose rulership was particularly marked with war. He died during the War of the League of Cambrai.
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A knight in Gothic plate armour
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Governor Davey's (sic) Proclamation to the Aborigines
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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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A German airplane brought down in the Forest of Argonne by American machine gunners between Montfaucon and Cierges, 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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Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies, best known for his actions in the Java War, which included arresting Prince Diponegoro, the leader of the rebellion, when Diponegoro had been invited to negotiate under a flag of truce.
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Re-enactment of the Rotterdam Blitz
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Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob van Omphal, Dutch Lieutenant-General, as painted by Herman Antonie de Bloeme
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Hitler and Mussolini, June 1940
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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
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HMCS St. John's (FFH 340) in Gdynia harbor (Poland)
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Idi Amin, ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Caricature by Edmund S. Valtman.
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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 for treatment of the injuries received during the act which got him the V.C.
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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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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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"Joan of Arc saved France--Women of America, save your country--Buy War Savings Stamps", poster for World War I war savings stamps, 1918.
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Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1830–1833, as painted by Cornelis Kruseman
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Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Sketch by Alfred Waud.
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Trains under attack during the Korean War
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Battle of Fort Sanders (ACW)
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Battle of Franklin (ACW)
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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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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
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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 Tell el Sheria Gaza line, 1917
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Battle of Tinian
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Marine private at Da Nang, Vietnam
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In the background of Martinus Rørbye's View from the Artist's Window, the rebuilding of the Danish fleet after their destruction in the Battle of Copenhagen (1807) can be seen.
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United States President Franklin Pierce, who presided over the lead-in to the American Civil War. This is a Victorian photograph of a (probably now completely degraded) daguerreotype, hence the issues with the photo.
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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, by Melton Prior.
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United States Navy Admiral Michael Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Military College of Chapultepec
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Charles Minard's chart of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign
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Hidatsa warrior
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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 symbolic First World War artist Paul Nash
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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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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: half Gulden
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Nicolaas Pieneman's painting The Submission of Prince Dipo Negoro to General De Kock is a triumphalist painting of the event that ended the Java War.
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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 cold weapons and other military paraphernalia, ca.1892-95. Hand-colored glass slide
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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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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 of the Philippine peso and centavo. This money rapidly devalued - hence the ever-larger denominations as the printing run continued - and became known as "Mickey Mouse pesos", with whole bundles of them becoming necessary to buy anything by the end of the war.
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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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Posthumous painting of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo.
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Posthumous portrait of Herman William Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, and Divisional General in Napoleon's Grande Armée
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President Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USA
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The cover of Puck from April 6, 1901
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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, Rudyard Kipling's nonfiction report on lesser-known parts of the British Navy.
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A World War II anti-Japanese propaganda poster
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US World War I recruitment poster
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Depiction of sixteenth century cannon placements
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Propaganda of the Spanish American War
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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 Member for New York of the United States House of Representatives.
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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
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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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Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 1898
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Winch parts on the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm
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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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The Lion Tower in Tripoli, an important example of 15th-century Lebanese architecture, as photographed by the American Colony of Jerusalem photographic division 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 of said state, 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 serve a similar purpose to the markings on the Hawaii overprint notes, 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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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 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 (BB-48)
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Soviet frigate "Bezzavetniy" intentionally collids with USS Yorktown (CG-48)
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American M8 tank 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 was once an incredibly important part of Stockholm, Sweden's defenses. However, by the 19th century if had become so militarily useless that, according to our article on it, "the great Prussian Field Marshal Von Moltke was only ever seen to smile twice. Once when they told him his mother-in-law was dead and again when he saw Vaxholm Fortress."
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The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez is a near-contemporaneous painting of the end of the 1624 Spanish Siege of Breda in the Netherlands. Justinus van Nassau is seen surrendering to Ambrogio Spinola.
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Vertical replenishment
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An infantryman is lowered into a tunnel by members of a reconnaissance platoon during Operation Oregon of the Vietnam War
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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. The king's capricious handling of Luxembourg precipitated the Luxembourg Crisis.
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Only the Navy Can Stop This
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King William I of the Netherlands, who commanded troops in the Flanders Campaign and the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, and was king of the Netherlands during the Belgian Revolution.
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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 original 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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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 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