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B17 Flying Fortresses over Europe
A photograph of USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses flying over Europe during the Second World War (1939-45).

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Dresden, February 1945
A photograph showing the destruction after the bomber raid on Dresden in 1945 by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

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Dresden, 1945
A photograph showing the destruction after the bomber raid on Dresden in 1945 by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War (1939-45). (Deutsche Fotothek)

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Charleston Fortifications, 1780
A 1786 map showing the defences and fortifications prior to the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina (29 March to 12 May 1780) during the American Revolutionary War. (From David Ramsey's "The History of the Revolution of South Carolina")

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
One of the most famous images of the Second World War, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press, was taken 23 February 1945 on the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima in the late stages of the Pacific War. The image...

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Positions of the Embryo in the Uterus in Soranus of Ephesus' Gynaecology
A Latin version of Gynaecology by Soranus of Ephesus, showing positions of the embryo in the uterus.
Codex 3714, fol. 28r.
Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels.

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US Declaration of Independence
An 1823 copy of the US Declaration of Independence by William Stone; the original was written by Thomas Jefferson and other congressional delegates and passed on 4 July 1776.

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Swaddled Infant Votive
Swaddled infant votive from the sanctuary of Peciano near Cortona, 3rd-2nd century BCE.
Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della città di Cortona.

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Portrait of James Warren
James Warren, a Massachusetts politician during the American Revolution. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1763.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren, Boston, 1805.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.