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Explosion of USS Shaw, Pearl Harbour
A photograph showing the explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw following the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii on 7 December 1941.
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Early Elamite Clay Tablet with Numerical Signs from Southern Iran
Early Elamite clay tablet with numerical signs found in Tappeh Yahya, Kerman, dating to c. 3100 to 2900 BCE (Yahya Period IVc). National Museum of Iran, Tehran, inv. no. 4065. Photo by Nima Fakoorzadeh (Baloot Noghrei...
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Europe on the Eve of WWII, 1939
A map illustrating the geopolitical shifts and escalating tensions in Europe on the eve of the Second World War in 1939. Beginning with the Saarland's rejoining of Germany in 1935, followed by the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936...
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Speer, Milch, & Messerschmitt
A 1944 photograph of Albert Speer (1905-81), German Minister of Armaments, Erhard Milch (1892-72), responsible for German aircraft production, and Willy Messerschmitt (1898-78), the aircraft designer. (German Federal Archives).
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Beecher Island Monument
Monument erected in 1905 to commemorate the Battle of Beecher Island of 1868 known to the Cheyenne as "The Fight Where Roman Nose Was Killed." The image is incorrectly dated to 1899. A wooden monument was erected at the site in 1899, but...
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Plains Indian Headdress
Plains Indian headdress such as would have been worn by Roman Nose (Cheyenne warrior) in the 19th century.
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, USA.
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War Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne at the Battle of Beecher Island
The defiance of Roman Nose, photographic reproduction of an illustration by R. F. Zagbaum from Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 91, #541 June, 1895, p. 53., depicting the Northern Cheyenne warrior/war chief Roman Nose taunting US army forces...
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The Death of Roman Nose (Cheyenne Warrior)
The death of Roman Nose (Cheyenne Warrior) at the Battle of Beecher Island (1895), illustration from page 321 of Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes, Major Arthur Griffiths, et al., London, 1895. The image...
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Infantry of the Continental Army, c. 1779-1783
An illustration of Continental Army infantry c. 1779-1783, color lithograph by Henry Alexander Ogden, c. 1897.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C.
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British Grenadier, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1767
A British grenadier from the 40th Regiment of Foot circa 1767. Published in the Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment by R. H. Raymond Smythies, 1894.
