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A statue of Alexander Stephens in the US Congress.
A Victorian illustration of the Knights Templars.
Renaissance map of Europe showing England.
A helicopter is pushed off the overcrowded deck of the aircarft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) off the coast of South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon.
A double portrait of Mozaffar al-Din Shah, the fifth Qajar shah of Iran.
Walter Sickert's Easter Monday.
During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940) skiers of the Finnish army in white camouflage made lightning and effective attacks on units of the Red Army.
Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David, 1814.
Parisians gather around the Arc de Triomphe as Allied forces liberate the city. Credit: RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo.