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President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island
President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island, photograph by the US State Department, 15 October 1950. This is a photograph of US President Harry S. Truman (left) meeting with General Douglas...
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Tokyo Bomb Damage, March 1945
Tokyo after the US bombing raid in March 1945, which caused a firestorm that killed over 87,000 people.
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Tokyo After the Firestorm of March 1945
Tokyo in March 1945, after the US bombing raid, which caused a firestorm that killed over 87,000 people. Many more people were made homeless and obliged to evacuate the Japanese capital.
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Map of the East India Company's Rise to Power, c. 1765 - Robert Clive and the Making of Company Power in India
The British East India Company's (EIC) rise to power in India accelerated between 1757 and 1765 as a commercial corporation increasingly acquired military...
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B-29 Incendiary Cluster Bombs
A US serviceman checking clusters of incendiary bombs destined to be dropped on Japan by Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers, 1945.
Imperial War Museums, London.
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Franklin Pierce - The United States' 14th President
Portrait of Franklin Pierce, oil on canvas by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1853. Franklin Pierce held the American presidency from 1853 to 1857, during which he signed into law the Kansas-Nebraska...
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General Franklin Pierce
Portrait of Franklin Pierce in military garb, engraving by Waterman Lilly Ormsby, c. 1852. Before Franklin Pierce would come to hold the American presidency, he enlisted in the summer of 1846 to fight in the Mexican-American...
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Great Footrace for the Presidential Purse, 1852
Great Footrace for the Presidential Purse ($100,000 and Pickings) Over the Union Course 1852, lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1852. Here, a cartoon parodies the three candidates in the US presidential election...
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Map of the Ancient Near East after Hammurabi, c. 1700 BCE - Kingdoms, Cities & Shifting Power in the Bronze Age
By c. 1700 BCE, the political landscape of the Ancient Near East had been reshaped by the rapid rise and fragmentation of two unusually large territorial...
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Map of the Korean War, 1950–1953 - Major Campaigns and Front-Line Movements
The Korean War (1950–1953) began on 25 June 1950 when communist North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), invaded South Korea, the Republic of Korea (ROK), across...
