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B-29 Incendiary Cluster Bombs
A 1945 photograph showing a US serviceman checking clusters of incendiary bombs destined to be dropped on Japan by Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers.
Imperial War Museums
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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...
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Map of the Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1492–1504 - Routes, Landfalls & Colonial Expansion in the Americas
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451–1506) led four transatlantic expeditions between 1492 and 1504 under the patronage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand...
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Enrico Fermi
A photograph of the Italian scientist Enrico Fermi who contributed to the Manhattan Project and the development of an atomic bomb during the Second World War (1939-45).
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Otto Han & Lise Meitner
A 1912 photograph of Otto Han and Lise Meitner, key figures in the development of nuclear fission.
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Little Boy Atomic Bomb
A phiotograph of the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Imperial War Museums
