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Wait for Me, Daddy, a photograph of a son running after his father who is leaving to fight in World War II
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Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?, a World War I British propaganda poster
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Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau
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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
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Battleship Potemkin, a Russian silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein
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Napoléon, a 1927 French silent film directed by Abel Gance
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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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A Lockheed T-33 training aircraft
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A British BL 60-pounder gun
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A poster of the United Nations alliance's fight for freedom during World War II
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A T-7 Red Hawk training aircraft
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A Continental I-1430 jet engine
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The signing of the Paris Peace Accords
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A Challenger 2 tank firing during a drill
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A painting of the Battle of Inab
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Soviet soldiers raising their flag over the Reichstag following the Battle of Berlin
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Damage in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas War
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A painting of the Siege of Baghdad
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A painting of the Battle of Forbach
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A painting of the Council of Clermont
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A painting of the Battle of Diamond Rock
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That Two-Thousand Yard Stare
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A painting of Horatius Cocles by Hendrick Goltzius
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Captain John Tarleton
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Theodore von Kármán, left, with Air Force and NASA officials inspecting two of the models used in the high velocity, high altitude wind tunnels at Arnold Air Force Base, 1959
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A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus refuels an Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, January 2019
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Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina after the American Civil War
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1974 Bundeswehr field ration contents
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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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The American Cannikin nuclear warhead being lowered into its test site
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Texas Raiders, a 1945 Boeing B-17 photographed in 2019
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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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A panorama of the Soviet submarine B-515's interior
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Elizabeth II running an ambulance service during World War II
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Alfred Waud making sketches of the Battle of Gettysburg
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A painting of the HMS Malabar observing the burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar
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Illustration of the burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar
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Portrait of John Milton Brannan
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Design for the Cenotaph
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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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Map of Interwar Europe
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B-24 aircraft participating in the bombing of Romania in World War II
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Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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Samuel Smith, African-American Union soldier
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Castle Bravo "Shrimp" device
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The Giechburg
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Shock waves around a Northrop T-38 Talon in flight
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Kenje Ogata, one of five documented Nisei to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
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Billy Bowlegs (Holatta Micco, "Alligator Chief")
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A Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado
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Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket
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"The Burning of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri at Gibraltar"
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"The Charge across the Burnside Bridge" (Battle of Antietam)
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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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Swiss soldiers dispatching a message by carrier pigeon during World War I
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Admiral David G. Farragut
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Admiral John A. Dahlgren
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"After the war a medal and maybe a job", political cartoon from 1914
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Astronaut Alan Bean
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Part of the Alexander Mosaic, focusing on Alexander the Great
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Alexander Roslin's King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
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Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation
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M3 tank in 1942
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The Alhambra, a Moorish fortress and palace in Spain
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Journée du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915
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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 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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Apollo 13 load on deck of USS Iwo Jima
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Arc de Triomphe, Paris
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Map of the Armenian Genocide
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Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child near Aleppo in during the Armenian Genocide
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Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the Atlanta Campaign
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Aircraft carrier USS Franklin attacked during World War II
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Harper's Ferry, 1862
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Australian infantry wearing Small Box Respirators, 1917
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Australian military encampment, 1918
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Interior of the Neue Wache in Berlin
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USAF B-1 Lancer
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B-2 Spirit over the Pacific Ocean
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Experimental tracked gear on a B-36 Peacemaker
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AV-8B Harrier II from VMA-231 landing in 2003
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An attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion
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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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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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Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry
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Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John Hay
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Thirteen C-17 Globemaster III aircraft fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
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Becket's Crown, Canterbury Cathedral
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James Gillray's caricature of William Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world
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Cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
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Canadian victory bond poster in French
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Canadian victory bond poster in English
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US Civil War general Charles Griffin
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The Custer Fight (1903), by Charles Marion Russell
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General Charles Pomeroy Stone with his daughter Hettie
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Chateau Wood, Ypres, 1917
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Soldiers of the Cheshire Regiment in a trench during the Battle of the Somme
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Chinese soldier, age 10, following the capture of Myitkyina airfield, Burma
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Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
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Liberation of Paris, 1944
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$50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Slaves in a cotton field
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Alternate $50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Justice, Agriculture and Industry, and George Washington
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$100 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Allegory of Justice, Minerva, and Hudson River Railroad vignette
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$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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Admiral David Dixon Porter
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General Daniel McCallum
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A Chinese soldier, killed by Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Korea
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Defsevaart in Rotterdam, one of the many parts of Rotterdam destroyed in World War II
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General Abner Doubleday
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Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during the initial landings at Leyte
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Mark Satin counseling draft dodgers
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U.S. Marine Corps Drill instructor
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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 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
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Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers on D-Day
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Elizabeth L. Gardner, member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
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"England expects that every man will do his duty", signal sent by HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
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Crash landing on the USS Enterprise while en route to attack Makin Island
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Ernest Hemingway in Red Cross uniform during World War I
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Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters during the Euromaidan riots, 2014 (pt. 1)
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Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters (pt. 2)
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A Chechen man prays during the Battle for Grozny
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F-111 performing a dump-and-burn fuel dump
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F-117 in flight
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F-15D releasing flares
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F-16 jet in flight over Iraq
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A F-16 jet in flight for the Solo Display Team
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FA-18 automated aerial refueling
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German surrender in Berlin, 1945
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Filipino casualties on the first day of Philippine-American War
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1918 Navy Enlistment Poster
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First JATO-assisted flight
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Confederate position map of the First Battle of Manassas, 1861
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Woodcut of the Russo-Japanese War by Kobayashi Kiyochika
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Fort Baker at San Francisco Bay
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"The [Franco-Prussian] War: Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications"
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Robert Fulton's submarine design
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General George A. Custer
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Astronaut Elliot See during water egress training for the Gemini 5 program
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Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, war chief of the Blood Indians
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George Peter Alexander Healy's painting of John C. Calhoun
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German instrument of surrender, World War II
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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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German airplane brought down in the Forest of Argonne by American machine gunners, France
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Hans Holbein the Younger's painting of Charles de Solier
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Harry R. Hopps' World War I American recruitment poster
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Bill Hosokawa's home at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center
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Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies
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Re-enactment of the Rotterdam Blitz
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Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob van Omphal, Dutch Lieutenant-General
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Hitler and Mussolini, June 1940
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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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Coldstream Guards, just after the Crimean War
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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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British Gunners in Action at the Front
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Japanese instrument of surrender, World War II
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LCVP disembarking troops at Omaha Beach on D-Day
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Iowa class battleship main battery turret
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World War I British recruitment poster, showing a Zeppelin
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USAF bombing in Italy during Operation Strangle
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Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister of Russia during World War I
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The Ivy Mike nuclear weapon test
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Members of the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
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A Japanese archer with targets
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Suicude of two Imperial Japanese Marines
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American War Savings Stamps poster during World War I, 1918
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Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1830–1833
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Tarred-and-feathered farmer
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General John F. Reynolds
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The German SMS Kaiserin Augusta in New York, 1895
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Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Sketch by Alfred Waud
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Trains under attack during the Korean War
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Battle of Fort Sanders, 1864
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Battle of Franklin, 1864
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Your King & Country Need You recruitment poster, 1914
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Leeds Castle in Kent, England
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Photograph of Confederate General Robert E. Lee by Levin C. Handy
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Design for the Lexington-class battlecruiser, 1919
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Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
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Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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Lowering the flag on Zuikaku, 1944
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Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot
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A simplified schematic diagram of an M1 Abrams tank
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M-209 cypher machine
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An M777 Light Towed Howitzer in service with the 10th Mountain Division in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Charkh District, Logar Province, Afghanistan.
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Ottoman machine gun corps at the Tel el Sheria Gaza line, 1917
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Marine private at Da Nang, Vietnam
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Original design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed
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United States Navy Admiral Michael Mullen
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Charles Minard's chart of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign
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Hidatsa warrior
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Caricature of Napoleon's exile to Elba
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Sunrise, Inverness Copse by 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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Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches
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"The Situation Room", where Obama, Biden, Clinton, and others were awaiting updates on Osama bin Laden during the mission to kill him
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Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Half Shilling
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Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Shilling
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Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Ten Shillings
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Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Pound
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Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, ca.1892-95. Hand-colored glass slide
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William Pitt the Younger, who led Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
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Test Baker, Operation Crossroads at Bikini atoll, 1946
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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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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
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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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Posthumous painting of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo
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Portrait of Herman William Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and Divisional General under Napoleon
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President Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USA
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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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Seneca nation chief Red Jacket
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Recruitment poster for the Australian Red Cross, 1914-1918
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The first aerial refueling
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Poppies placed in the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial
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Rescue training exercise by the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Air Force
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Richmond, Virginia after the American Civil War
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Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Chief Little Turtle
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Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp.
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Cover of The Fringes of the Fleet
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Sultan Mehmed VI, last sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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Christian Fleetwood, recipient of the Medal of Honor
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US World War I recruitment poster
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Depiction of sixteenth century cannon placements
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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 Congressman from New York
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The [Franco-Prussian] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners
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Su-27 from Russian Knights aerobatic team on landing
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A Sukhoi Su-30 of the Russian Air Force inflight over Russia in June 2010
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Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash, leader of the Druze people
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The Sumela Monastery, seized during the Russian occupation of Trabazon in World War I, and abandoned in the postwar population exchanges between Greece and Turkey.
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI
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A synagogue in New York City remained on D-Day
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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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Qianlong Emperor of China in ceremonial armour on horseback
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USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 1898
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Winch parts on the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm
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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 example of 15th-century Lebanese architecture, photographed shortly after 1900
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Australian Army recruitment poster from World War I
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Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series
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Ottoman heliograph crew at Huj during World War I, 1917
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Ottoman/Turkish trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea, 1917
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Captain Edward M. Thomas of the Tuskeegee Airmen
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Tuskegee airmen in Italy, 1945
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F-22A Raptors
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Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox
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$1 Hawaii overprint note from World War II, meant to identify Hawaiian currency in the case of a successful Japanese invasion, so that it could be declared worthless.
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$5 Hawaii overprint note
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$10 Hawaii overprint note
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$20 Hawaii overprint note
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$1 banknote from the North Africa series, from World War II. The yellow markings are for letting them be declared worthless should large amounts be captured by Axis forces.
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$5 banknote from the North Africa series.
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$10 banknote from the North Africa series.
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US$500 note from 1880 showing Union General Joseph K. Mansfield
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Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing José Martí
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Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Máximo Gómez
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Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
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Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Antonio Maceo Grajales
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Certified proof of Cuban fifty silver peso note, showing Calixto García
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Certified proof of Cuban one-hundred silver peso note, showing Francisco Vicente Aguilera
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U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville
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USAF aircraft of the 335th Fighter Squadron
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USS Annapolis in the Arctic
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The USS Bunker Hill hit by kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa
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USS Essex in heavy seas, 1960
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USS Iowa firing a full broadside
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USS New Jersey, 1918
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USS Oregon in dry dock, September 1898
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USS Pennsylvania entering Lingayen Gulf
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USS Shaw exploding at Pearl Harbor
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USS Texas c. 1898
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Soviet frigate "Bezzavetniy" intentionally collids with USS Yorktown
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American M8 Greyhound armored car in Paris, August 1944
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Schematic diagram of a V-2 rocket design
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A boy killed and set on fire by a V-2 rocket attack in Belgium on November 27, 1944
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Vice Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley of the United States Navy
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Vertical replenishment
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An infantryman is lowered into a tunnel during Operation Oregon
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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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Ratification of the Peace of Münster
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"An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President"
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William III of the Netherlands, painted by Nicolaas Pieneman.
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Only the Navy Can Stop This
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The Chickahominy- Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
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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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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