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General George B. McClellan and his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy, photograph, c. 1860-1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Odysseus, the legendary king of Ithaca, belongs to the Greek Heroic Age, traditionally associated with the Trojan War near the end of the Late Bronze Age (conventionally c. 13th–12th centuries...

The Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291) emerged in the aftermath of the First Crusade (1096–1099) and became the most prestigious of the Crusader states...

A house in Oku, Tokyo, destroyed by a US B-25 Mitchell bomber of the Doolittle Raid, which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45).

A photograph of Lt-Colonel James H. Doolittle (1896-1993) – second from the left –and his flight crew about to set off in their B-25 Mitchell bomber on the Doolittle Raid which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942...

A photograph showing a B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off from the US aircraft carrier Hornet on its way to participating in the Doolittle Raid which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). US...

US aircraft carrier Hornet and a B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off on the Doolittle Raid, which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Museums, London.

Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, photograph by Judson McCranie, 11 October 2009. Shown here is Fort Sumter, a notable location in US history that marked the beginning of the American Civil War. It is now...

Major Robert Anderson, photograph by Mathew Brady, circa 1860 to circa 1865. Major Robert Anderson was the Union commander of Fort Sumter, the site of the first battle of the American Civil War. Anderson’s actions ensured...

Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States, April 13, 1861, woodcut by an unknown artist, 27 April 1861. This woodcut shows the opening of the American Civil War, the attack on Fort Sumter by...