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British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets an ethnic Albanian by holding up his hand in central Pristina, Yugoslavia during a one-day visit Saturday July 31, 1999. It was Blair's first visit to Kosovo since NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. (Photo by David Brauchli)
First World War Commanders looking at a battle plan. Painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923), 1916. Army Museum, Paris.
This chart is taken from the book 'Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae' which was published in 1646 by the Jesuit scientist and inventor, Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680).
French painter David's The Death of Socrates.
Mongol legend Genghis Khan in combat
Mount Bromo (Gunung Bromo) seen at dawn on 11th June 2018, East Java, Indonesia. The active volcano is park of the Bromo Tengger National Park, sitting on a plain called the sea of sand, it is possible to look into the crater of the volcano to see the smoke and steam emerging from it, lava is not visible. (photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Russian soldiers receive instructions from their commander before entering the city Gori, during the Russo-Georgian War August 2008. Credit: Eddie Gerald / Alamy Stock Photo.
Shi'ite Houthi rebels drive a truck past an Ansar al-Sharia flag painted on the side of a hill in Almnash, the main stronghold of the local wing of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Rada, Yemen.
Czechoslovaks carry their national flag past a burning Soviet tank in Prague, 1968. The JIC failed to foresee Soviet retaliations to the mass protests

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