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Book of Revelation, folio 6v and 7r of illuminated manuscript Fr 403 by Maître de Sarum and Hennequin de Bruges, 1240-1250. National Library of France, Paris.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, painted in Paris, c. 1785. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Deborah Read Franklin (1708-1714), wife of Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas portrait attributed to Benjamin Wilson, c. 1758. American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

"Join or Die", a political cartoon attributed to Benjamin Franklin or James Turner, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1754. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published during the French and Indian War, the cartoon was used...

Poor Richard, 1739. An Almanack for the Year of Christ 1739, written by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, 1739. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

A c. 1767 oil-on-canvas portrait by David Martin of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). This portrait depicts Franklin as a scholarly figure of the Enlightenment with a bust of Isaac Newton gazing at him. The portrait was...

This is a December 1941 photo taken by Japanese pilots of Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor, a line of seven US Navy battleships that were primary targets of the Japanese attackers. Notice the oil spilling...

The USS West Virginia was one of seven ships that made up Battleship Row during the Battle of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Here it can be seen ablaze after being hit by seven torpedoes and two bombs. It sank...

Franklin the printer, photograph of a painting by artist Charles E. Mills, c. 1914. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Japanese troops enter French Indochina and head towards Lang Son in what is northern Vietnam today. During 1940, Japan began to encroach on French Indochina so that they could cut off the supplies that were...