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  Wilhelm II
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  Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon by John Martin, depicting Joshua lifting the siege of Gibeon
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  Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, a painting of the July Revolution
• The US bombing a Houthi position on 15 March 2025 during Operation Rough Rider
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  US Army troops of the 2nd Infantry Division march up the bluff at the E-1 draw in the Easy Red sector on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, June 7 1944
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  The USS Jack H. Lucas
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  Burst of Joy, a 1973 photograph showing a US Army soldier returning to his family after spending five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam
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  South Vietnamese general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shoots Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém during the Tet Offensive, the Saigon Execution photographed by Eddie Adams
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  The Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli in 1938
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  14th-century painting of Mongol warriors chasing their enemy
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  Captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in a stress position by American forces during the Vietnam War, 1967
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  The Thousand-yard stare of a US Marine returning from the Battle of Eniwetok, photographed by Ray Platnick
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  Portrait of Roger Fenton by Hugh Welch Diamond
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  General Winfield Scott entering Mexico City after the Battle for Mexico City, painting by Carl Nebel
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  Absalom Baird
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  Thomas E. Bramlette
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  "I Want You for U. S. Army", a World War I recruitment poster by James Montgomery Flagg
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  An illustration of the Battle of Antietam by Thure de Thulstrup
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  Giles Alexander Smith
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  A map of the Siege of Recife (1630) by Nicolaes Visscher I
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  The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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  British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder on the Italian coast, December 1943
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  The US Navy ferries troops across the Rhine at Oberwesel during World War II
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  Portrait of Colonel Frederick George d'Utassy by Mathew Brady
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  "Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea", by Max Desfor
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  "If You Talk Too Much, This Man May Die" by the United States Office of War Information, published during World War II
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  James Pinson Labulo Davies, a British naval Lieutenant, and his wife Sara Forbes Bonetta, a childhood prisoner of war from the Kingdom of Dahomey, photographed by Camille Silvy
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  President Franklin D. Roosevelt photographed in 1944 by Leon Perskie
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  The official presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale
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  Wait for Me, Daddy by Claude P. Dettloff, 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 by Savile Lumley
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  A NASA Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flying over a Northrop HL-10 and its pilot William H. Dana in 1969
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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 on Cape Helles in Turkey, photographed by Ernest Brooks
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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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  A British Mark IV tank of World War I
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  An American M4 Sherman tank of World War II
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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 by Rembrandt
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  A painting of the Battle of Inab by Jean Colombe
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  Soviet soldiers raising their flag over the Reichstag following the Battle of Berlin, photographed by Yevgeny Khaldei
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  Damage in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas War
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  Portrait of Chief Joseph by Edward S. Curtis
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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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  Portrait of Ernest Shackleton by George Charles Beresford
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  A painting of the Council of Clermont by Jean Colombe
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  Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Brothers
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  Portrait of Pedro II of Brazil by Nadar
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  Portrait of Pedro II of Brazil by Mathew Brady and Levin Corbin Handy
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  A painting of the Battle of Diamond Rock by Auguste Étienne François Mayer
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  Portrait of Chester A. Arthur by Abraham Bogardus
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  Portrait of Francis I of Austria painted by Joseph Kreutzinger
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  Lord Dunsany
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  That Two-Thousand Yard Stare by Thomas C. Lea III
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  Portrait of Philip IV of Spain by Diego Velázquez
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  Thorsten Nordenfelt
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  Portrait of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda
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  Portrait of Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
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  A painting of Horatius Cocles by Hendrick Goltzius
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  Portrait of Captain John Tarleton by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
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  Marcus Aurelius
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  The French battleship Justice, photograph by the Detroit Publishing Company
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  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  The USS Commodore Perry photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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  Theodore von Kármán, left, with US Air Force and NASA officials inspecting two SM-65 Atlas models used in the wind tunnels at Arnold Air Force Base in 1959
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  A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus refuels an Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, January 2019
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  Portrait of George N. Barnard by Mathew Brady
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  Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina after the American Civil War photographed by George N. Barnard
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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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  Portrait of Alfred Waud making sketches of the Battle of Gettysburg by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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  A painting of the HMS Malabar observing the burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar by Edward Duncan
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  The Battle of Malvern Hill mapped by Robert Knox Sneden
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  Surrender of General Burgoyne painted by John Trumbull for US banknotes
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  Washington Resigning his Commission painted by John Trumbull for US banknotes
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  Edwin Forbes' illustration of the charge across Burnside's Bridge at the Battle of Antietam
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  The Boston Massacre during the American Revolution, engraved by Paul Revere and Henry Pelham
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  The burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar, illustrated by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton and Edward Duncan
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  Portrait of John Milton Brannan by Mathew Brady
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  The Battle of Shiloh painted by Thure de Thulstrup
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  1822 painting of the Presidio of San Francisco by Victor Adam
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  Dehousing from the Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
• Bombing of Hamburg in World War II newsreel
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  Samantha Cristoforetti
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  Design for the Cenotaph by Edwin Lutyens
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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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  Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Louis Blanc painted by Étienne Carjat
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  Portrait of Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh
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  Map of Interwar Europe by George Washington Bacon
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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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  Portrait of Nelly Martyl by Jean Reutlinger
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  Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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  Green-Meldrim House sketched by William Waud
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  Beulah Ream Allen
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  Della H. Raney
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  Sherman's March to the Sea illustrated by Alexander Hay Ritchie
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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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  Portrait of George Washington painted by John Trumbull
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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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  Rifling of an Austria-Hungary 9 cm Feldkanone M 75/96
• The launch of the first UGM-27 Polaris missile, broadcast by Universal Newsreel
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  Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
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  An RPG-7 being fired
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  A Semar Kris dagger
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  James A. Garfield
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  Portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart
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  The Giechburg
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  A camouflaged Marine from the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines walking through Mihtarlam in Afghanistan
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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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  Portrait of Billy Bowlegs (Holatta Micco, "Alligator Chief") by Julian Vannerson
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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, photographed by George Washington Wilson
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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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  Edwin Forbes' painting of "The Charge across the Burnside Bridge" (Battle of Antietam)
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  Portrait of Augustus Brine painted by John Singleton Copley
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  Portrait of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich painted by Peter Lely
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  Portrait of Étienne Maurice Gérard painted by Jacques-Louis David
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  George Juskalian
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  Portrait of George Atzerodt by Alexander Gardner
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  Portrait of Sitting Bull by David Francis Barry
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  Portrait of an Iraqi militiaman at Keffiyeh
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  Portrait of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar by Nadar
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  Portrait of James Francis Edward Stuart by Alexis Simon Belle
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  A painting of Rajput soldiers holding talwars (swords)
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  Bombing of Barcelona by the Italian Air Force
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  A Vietnamese man starved in a Viet Cong camp
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  A painting of the Battle of Vercellae by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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  A sketch of the Battle of Scheveningen by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten
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  An American M24 Chaffee tank crew during the Vietnam War
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  A painting of the Siege of Osaka
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  Bloody Saturday, a young boy after an attack on Shanghai, photographed by H. S. Wong
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  Paratroopers at the Western Wall, 1967 photograph by David Rubinger
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  An aircraft of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds crashes at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho
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  Airmen from the 720th Special Tactics Group executing a para jump
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  A child soldier in the Vietnam War
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  USS Akron airship of the US Navy flying over Manhattan
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  US Navy personnel performing a static line jump from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules
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  A painting of the Storming of the Bastille
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  F-16 aircraft of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds flying over New York City
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  A USAF McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle firing an AIM-7 Sparrow missile
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  Joseph Kittinger executing the last Project Excelsior high-altitude jump to test fighter pilot parachutes, photograph by Volkmar Wentzel
• The first flight to break the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager flying the Bell X-1
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  A USAF Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey being refuelled
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  A USAF Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey convertiplane in flight
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  The Frecce Tricolori Italian acrobatics team flying the Aermacchi MB-339
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  The Patrouille de France French acrobatic unit flying the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet
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  A schematic drawing of the Sukhoi Su-25
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  Boeing YAL-1 misisle testbed in flight
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  A Convair NB-36H and a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress photographed in flight
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  Aa Swiss Pilatus P-3 trainer aircraft
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  A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II during flight testing
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  A North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft at a aeronautics show in Poland
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  A Swedish Saab Safari trainer aircraft
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  ORP Grom
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  USS Arizona
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  USS Arizona in New York City, photograph by Robert Enrique Muller
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  HMS Vanguard
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  SMS Arcona at Nagasaki
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  Florence Nightingale's Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War, painted by William Simpson
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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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  Marines from 4th Battalion, 14th Marines operate the 155mm M198 howitzer
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  USS Benfold fires its 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 45 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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  Portrait of Admiral John A. Dahlgren bt Mathew Brady
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  "After the war a medal and maybe a job", political cartoon from 1914 by John Sloan
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  Astronaut Alan Bean
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  Buzz Aldrin looking at Tranquility Base, photograph by Neil Armstrong
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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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  B-25 bomber production at North American Aviation photographed by Alfred T. Palmer
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  An American M3 Lee tank in 1942 photographed by Alfred T. Palmer
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  The Alhambra, a Moorish fortress and palace in Spain
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  Adolphe Willette's painting of a poilu on leave
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  Les dernières cartouches by Alphonse de Neuville
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  Portrait of American Civil War general Ambrose Everett Burnside by Mathew Brady
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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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  Animated naval gun turret, based on a British BL 15-inch Mk I naval gun
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  Portrait of Charles I of England painted by Anthony van Dyck
• Video footage of US Apache helicopter shooting Iraqi insurgents
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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 during the Armenian Genocide
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  Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the Atlanta Campaign, photograph by George N. Barnard
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  Aircraft carrier USS Franklin attacked during World War II
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  The 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry mapped by Robert Knox Sneden
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  Australian infantry wearing Small Box Respirators in 1917 to guard from chemical warfare, photographed by Frank Hurley
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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 Convair B-36 Peacemaker tank
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  AV-8B Harrier II from VMA-231 landing in 2003
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  An illustration of the Battle of Churubusco by John Cameron and Nathaniel Currier
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  The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House painted by Thure de Thulstrup
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  An attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion
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  Join, or Die cartoon by Benjamin Franklin
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  The Battle at La Hogue painted by William Woollett
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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.
• Allied bombing of German lines during World War I
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  Map of 1775 military installations in Boston by Thomas Hyde Page
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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 painted by William Simpson
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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, photography by George N. Barnard
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  US Civil War general Charles Griffin
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  The Custer Fight (1903), painted by Charles Marion Russell
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  General Charles Pomeroy Stone with his daughter Hettie
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  Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, photographed by Frank Hurley
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  Soldiers of the Cheshire Regiment in a trench during the Battle of the Somme photographed by John Warwick Brooke
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  Chinese child soldier of the National Revolutionary Army photographed after the capture of Myitkyina airfield, Burma
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  Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, photographed by Andrew J. Russell
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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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  1855 Siege of Sevastopol sketched by William Simpson
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  Twelfth United States Army Group position map on D-Day
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  Portrait of Admiral David Dixon Porter by Mathew Brady
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  Portrait of General Daniel McCallum by Mathew Brady
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  The Battle of Scheveningen sketched by Willem van de Velde the Elder
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  A Chinese soldier, killed by Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Korea
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  Map of Operation Desert Storm
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  Yeomen Warder, photograph by the Detroit Publishing Company
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  Defsevaart in Rotterdam, one of the many parts of Rotterdam destroyed in World War II, photograph by the Detroit Publishing Company
• 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 Battle of Leyte, photographed by Gaetano Faillace
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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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  Portrait of John Philip Sousa by Elmer Chickering
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  Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland
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  Photograph of Albert Einstein by Ferdinand Schmutzer
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  Enrico Fermi
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  Luis Waltez Alvarez
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  Glenn T. Seaborg
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  General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American D-Day paratroopers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment
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  Elizabeth L. Gardner, member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
• A short film about 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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  A Grumman F6F Hellcat crash landing on 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 by Anthony van Dyck
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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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  An illustration of Sultan Bahadur Shah retreating during the conquest of Gujarat by Mughal Emperor Humayun
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  A Chechen man prays during the Battle for Grozny
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  A photograph of a samurai by Felice Beato
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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
• F/A-18 automated aerial refueling
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  Wilhelm Keitel signing the German surrender in Berlin, 1945
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  Filipino casualties on the first day of Philippine-American War
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  1918 US Navy Enlistment Poster by Vojtěch Preissig
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  French mutilated soldier in 1918 with mask and craniofacial prosthesis
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  French mutilated soldier in 1918 without mask and craniofacial prosthesis
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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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  Propaganda poster of the Russo-Japanese War by Kobayashi Kiyochika
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  Fort Baker at San Francisco Bay
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  The American Civil War fort of Fort Jefferson in Florida
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  The Franco-Prussian War: Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871) illustrated by Fred Barnard
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  Portrait of Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts painted by John Singer Sargent
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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 design for Nautilus (1800 submarine)
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  General George Armstrong 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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  Portrait of Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, war chief of the Blood Indians, painted by George Catlin
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  George Peter Alexander Healy's painting of John C. Calhoun
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  Portrait of Georges Ernest Boulanger by Nadar
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  German instrument of surrender of World War II
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  Portrait of Leonardo Loredan, a Doge of Venice, by Giovanni Bellini
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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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  Grace Hopper, United States Navy rear admiral
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  A sixteenth century Spanish grant of arms
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  The return of the US Great White Fleet battleships, sketched by William Allen Rogers
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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 Hannover CL.III shot down in the Forest of Argonne in France by American machine gunners
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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 Ryle 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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  Portrait of Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies, painted by Cornelis Kruseman
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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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  Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in June 1940, photographed by Eva Braun
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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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  Portrait of Hollow Horn Bear by Harris & Ewing
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  Portrait of Horatio Nelson painted by Lemuel Francis Abbott
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  Coldstream Guards, just after the Crimean War
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  Portrait of Ida Tarbell by James E. Purdy
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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 by Ilya Repin
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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 loading shrapnel shell
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  Japanese instrument of surrender of World War II
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  Into the Jaws of Death, disembarking troops photographed at Omaha Beach on D-Day by Robert F. Sargent
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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, painted by Jacques-Louis David
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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, painted by William Haskell Coffin
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  Portrait of Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1830–1833, painted by Cornelis Kruseman
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  Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe
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  Portrait of John Lorimer Worden by Mathew Brady
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  Tarred-and-feathered farmer
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  General John F. Reynolds's fatal charge at the Battle of Gettysburg sketched by Alfred Waud
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  Joseph F. Ambrose
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  The German SMS Kaiserin Augusta in New York in 1895, painted by Carl Saltzmann
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  The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain sketched by Alfred Waud
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  Portrait of King Charles II of England painted by John Michael Wright or his studio
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  Trains under attack during the Korean War
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  Battle of Fort Sanders illustrated by Kurz and Allison
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  Battle of Franklin illustratrd by Kurz and Allison
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  Your King & Country Need You, 1914 recruitment poster, painted by Lawson Wood
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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, photographed by Alexander Gardner
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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, photographed by Alfred T. Palmer
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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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  Map of the Battle of Guam
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  Battle of Jutland
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  Battle of Tinian
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  Portrait of François Certain de Canrobert by Nadar
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  US Marine private at Da Nang, Vietnam
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  Martinus Rørbye's View from the Artist's Window
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  Portrait of United States President Franklin Pierce by Mathew Brady
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  Original design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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  General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Hill just before he was killed, painting by Melton Prior
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  United States Navy Admiral Michael Mullen
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  The Military College of Chapultepec illustrated by Nathaniel Currier
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  Millicent Fawcett
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  Charles Joseph Minard's chart of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign
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  Moshe Ya'alon
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  Hidatsa warrior painted by Karl Bodmer
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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 poster by Frank Brangwyn
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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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  Situation Room, where Obama, Biden, Clinton, and others are awaiting updates on the killing of Osama bin Laden; photographed by Pete Souza
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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; photographed by T. Enami
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  Portrait of William Pitt the Younger, who led Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, painted by John Hoppner
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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 on 9 December 1917, photographed by Lewis Larsson
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  Our New 'First Lord' at Sea, cartoon by John Tenniel
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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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  Portrait of United States President (and former Brigadier-General) Benjamin Harrison by the Pach Brothers
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  Portrait of Richard Lugar
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  Portrait of Charles Bolden
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  Registration card from the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
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  Portrait of Paul von Hindenburg by Nicola Perscheid
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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 Thomas 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; photographed by Alexander Gardner
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  Polish cavalry at the Battle of the Bzura in 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 Willem Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and Divisional General under Napoleon, painted by Raden Saleh
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  Portrait of President Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the USA, by Mathew Brady
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  Unidentified survivor from the Civil War Belle Isle POW camp
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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 original cartoon by John Tenniel and Joseph Swain
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  R. V. C. Bodley
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  Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, photograph by Joe Rosenthal
• Video of the Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima by Bill Genaust
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  Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn
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  Māori Battalion survivors of the North African campaign performing the haka dance
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  British WWII propaganda poster
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  The sinking Japanese destroyer Yamakaze photographed by the USS Nautilus' periscope
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  Anti-Bolshevik Nazi propaganda poster
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  Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference
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  RAN Squirrel helicopter
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  Seneca nation chief Red Jacket, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, and Edward Henry Corbould or Henry Corbould
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  World War I recruitment poster for the Australian Red Cross by David Henry Souter
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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, photographed by Andrew J. Russell
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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) painted by Vasily Ignatius
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  Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov painted by Vasily Ignatius
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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, World War I painting by John Singer Sargent
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  Portrait of Sultan Mehmed VI, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, by Jean Pascal Sébah
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  Christian Fleetwood, recipient of the Medal of Honor
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  The grave of WWII Medal of Honor recipient Jimmie W. Monteith at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
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  US World War I recruitment poster
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  Depiction of sixteenth century cannon placement and gabions by Agostino Ramelli
• Propaganda of the Spanish-American War
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  Charles I in Three Positions painted by Anthony van Dyck
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  Portrait of Paul Fildes, British Navy microbiologist who worked at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar and Porton Down, painted by Luke Fildes
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  SMS Moltke (1910) by Harris & Ewing
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  SMS Seeadler, a German Imperial Navy unprotected cruiser, photograph by the Detroit Publishing Company
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  A German war bond poster by Lucian Bernhard
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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: Siege 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 Trabzon 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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  Synagogue services in New York City on D-Day
• Video footage of 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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  A Marine Corps soldier fires an M4 carbine assault rifle, which then ejects a casing
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  The burning of Columbia, South Carolina on 17 February 1865 illustrated by William Waud
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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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  Portrait of the Qianlong Emperor of China in ceremonial armour on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione
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  USS Arizona sinking 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 painted by Thure de Thulstrup
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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 photographed by Berlyn Brixner
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  Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne
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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 by Norman Lindsay
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  Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series
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  Ottoman heliograph crew at Huj, Gaza in 1917 during World War I
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  Ottoman/Turkish trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea in 1917, photographed by Lewis Larsson
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  The Tuskeegee Airmen in Ramitelli, Italy in 1945, photographed by Toni Frissell
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  Tuskegee Airmen in Italy in 1945, photographed by Toni Frissell
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  F-22A Raptors
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  Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox, painted by Thure de Thulstrup
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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 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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  Ruins after the Burning of the United States Capitol sketched by George Munger
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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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  Ebensee concentration camp survivors photographed by Arnold E. Samuelson
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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 before the Battle of Luzon
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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 Bezzavetnyy intentionally collids with USS Yorktown
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  American M8 Greyhound armored car in Paris, August 1944
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  Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp
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  A woman working at the Vega Aircraft Corporation during WWII
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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 in Germany after a bombing raid
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  Diagram of a warship from the 1728 Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers
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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 painted by Gerard ter Borch
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  "An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President", cartoon by Nathaniel Currier
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  William III of the Netherlands, painted by Nicolaas Pieneman.
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  Only the Navy Can Stop This poster by William Allen Rogers
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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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  Portrait of King William I of the Netherlands painted by Joseph Paelinck
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  The Chickahominy- Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
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  Attack on the Malakoff sketched by William Simpson
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  Charge of the Light Brigade sketched by William Simpson
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  Queen Victoria visiting the newly-refurbished HMS Resolute in 1856, painted by William Simpson
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  The print version of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville" by William Waud
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  The original sketch of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville" by William Waud
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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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  The Warsaw Ghetto boy during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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  Women of Britain Say - "Go"
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  Portrait of Henry VIII of England, from the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger
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  Portrait of Henry VIII of England painted by Hans Holbein the Younger
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  Portrait of Louis, Grand Dauphin of France, painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud
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  Portrait of Alexis of Russia
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  Portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV
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  Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham painted by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
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  Portrait of Louis XVI painted by Antoine-François Callet
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  Portrait of Charles III of Spain painted by Anton Raphael Mengs
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  Portrait of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
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  Portrait of Maurice, Prince of Orange painted by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
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  Portrait of Charles XIV John painted by Joseph Nicholas Jouy
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  Portrait of George V of Hanover and his family, painted by Conrad L'Allemand
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  Portrait of Elizabeth I, attributed to Federico Zuccari
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  Portrait of Elizabeth I, painted by either George Gower or Steven van der Meulen
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  Portrait of Thomas Francis Meagher painted by George Francis Mulvany
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  Portrait of Jesse B. Jackson by Harris & Ewing
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  Portrait of John Biddle painted by Thomas Sully
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  Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici painted by Bronzino
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  Portrait of George Clinton painted by Ezra Ames
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  Portrait of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord painted by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
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  Portrait of François-Henri d'Harcourt painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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  Portrait of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore painted by Joshua Reynolds
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  Aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, January 1891
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  Wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire in World War I
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  World War I female recruitment poster by Howard Chandler Christy
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  Douglas MacArthur signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on the USS Missouri
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  Rosie the Riveter, a 1942 photograph by Alfred T. Palmer showing a woman fitting the rivets on a Vultee A-31 Vengeance aircraft
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  The X-10 Graphite Reactor which created the material for the first nuclear bombs, photographed by Ed Westcott
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  Japanese battleship Yamato in her final configuration on April 7, 1945.
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  World War I poster by Charles Edward Chambers urging Yiddish speakers to support the war effort
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  Artillery at the Siege of Yorktown (1862), photographed by James F. Gibson
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  The Crucified Soldier by Fernando Amorsolo
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  The Royal Kurgan in Crimea, Ukraine.
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  Nogi Maresuke