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Field Marshal Montgomery, 1943
A 1943 photograph of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) during the Italian campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)
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The Three Estates of Pre-revolutionary France
The Three Estates of pre-revolutionary France were the hierarchical social divisions that structured society under the Ancien Régime (French for "Old Regime," a term coined after the French Revolution to...
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World represent the pinnacle of human creativity, ambition, and engineering skill in classical antiquity. Compiled by Greek scholars during the Hellenistic period (c. 3rd century...
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Rommel & Hitler
A 1942 photograph of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) and the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1891-1944). (German Federal Archives)
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Erwin Rommel, 1917
A 1917 photograph of the German commander Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) during the First World War (1914-18) when he led a specialist mountain unit.
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Erwin Rommel, 1940
A photograph of the German commander Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) taken in 1940 when he led the 7th Panzer Division during the Fall of France. (Imperial War Museums)
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Henry D. Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), stipple and line steel engraving on paper by an unknown artist after Samuel Worcester Rowse, c. 1863
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), photograph by Benjamin Dexter Maxham, 1856.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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Title Page of Walden
Title page from the first edition of Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
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Plaque Commemorating Thoreau's Time in Jail
Plaque commemorating Thoreau's night in jail. Concord, Massachusetts, USA.
