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Members of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion preparing to jump from a Douglas C-47 on a wildfire in Oregon. In 1945, during Operation Fire Fly, Black paratroopers made more than 8,000 individual jumps to fight wildfires and disarm Japanese balloon bombs in the Pacific Northwest [2000 x 1623].

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Leon Trotsky's bookshelf while living in exile in Mexico City [2048 x 1408].

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Chicago Cubs team with mascot, Chicago, Illinois, 1908 [3500 x 2763].

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On this date in 1872, the first-ever international football match was played

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Confidence boost

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Cinematographer James Wong Howe stands with the lights behind the scenes of the climactic dinner sequence in The Thin Man, 1934

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Remnants of a Japanese Type- A midget submarine, Kiska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA [3648 x 2763].

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Sir Oswald Moseley leads a British Union of Fascists march in east London, 1936 [2000 x 1443].

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I would rather have a Medal of Honor than be President of the United States, Harry Truman told Macario Garcia at the White House on Aug. 23, 1945. Garcia was the first Mexican immigrant to receive the MoH; a month later he was denied service at a Texas restaurant because he was Hispanic [806x1024]

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A French Army doctor dresses the injured paw of a Red Cross dog, 1916 [2048 x 2048].

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The German Boar held at Verdun, Punch Magazine, 1916

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On October 11, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first (former) president to fly in an aircraft when he was briefly flown in a Wright Model B by Arch Hoxsey at an aviation meet in St. Louis, Missouri [1440 x 877].

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Michael Curtiz directs Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on set of Casablanca, 1942

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President Richard Nixon bowling at the White House bowling alley, 10 March 1970 [1040 x 1327].

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What helped get me into vexillology as a kid, the family car

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Apollo 11 astronauts (L to R) Collins, Aldrin and Armstrong wearing sombreros and ponchos are swarmed by thousands in Mexico City as their motorcade is slowed by the crowd. The 1st stop on a Worldwide Goodwill Tour, they would visit 29 cities in 24 countries over 38 days; Sept 29, 1969 [2000 x 1581]

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A lantern found at a cave barracks on Mount Scorluzzo, Lombardy. The accelerating retreat of glaciers in the Italian Alps are revealing artifacts from the WWI theater of operations [2048 x 1229].

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A lantern found at a cave barracks on Mount Scorluzzo, Lombardy. The accelerating retreat of glaciers in the Italian Alps are revealing artifacts from the WWI theater of operations [2048 x 1229].

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Victory Will Be Ours! USSR, 1943 [600 x 941].

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Entrance to Oz, a 1970s theme park abandoned less than 10 years after it opened. Credit: Johnny Joo [2048 x 1368].

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A scuba diver inspects a sunken ship at the Gallipoli Historic Underwater Park. Divers can now explore the hulks of British and French ships sunk off the coast of Turkey during World War I's Gallipoli Campaign.

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Eddie Rickenbacker, top scoring American fighter ace of WWI, was born on this date in 1890.

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TDIH: July 22, 1587, English colonists arrive at the island of Roanoke, Virginia, in an attempt to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. It would become known as The Lost Colony after its governor returned to the settlement several years later and found it deserted.

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Cary Grant filming the crop duster scene in North by Northwest

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to throw the ceremonial first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series in 1933 at Griffith Stadium in Washington [1200 x 800].

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Miami Skyline, 1920s [1440 x 881].

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Colorfully dressed children stand out against Shibam, Yemen's sandy landscape. Photo by Jean Robert [1200 x 800].

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The Lake Monsters of the United States, 2013 [1298 x 1735].

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Hat said to be worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo that sold for more than $400,000 at an auction in Lyon, France [2000 x 1332].

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Chocolates from the Tirpitz Museum, Denmark [540 x 720].

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A portrait of composer Frederic Chopin (before and after restoration) purchased at a flea market hung modestly in a private house in Poland for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting to the 19th century.

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French infantryman charging German positions, by Leon Reni-Mel from The Soldiers of Reni-Mel, ca. 1914-1918 [1080 x 1440].

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Old friends

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TDIH: October 19, 1901, Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his dirigible No. 6 around the Eiffel Tower during a flight to win the Deutsch prize, and he did it in less than half an hour. This photo shows an earlier flight in dirigible No. 5.

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The ice axe used to assassinate Leon Trotsky, scheduled to go on display in Washington next year [1536 x 1217].

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Seeley's Hard Rubber Hernia Trusses, early 1900s

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The last known photo of the Red Baron taken the morning of his death, April 21, 1918. Seen here 'rescuing' his dog Moritz from squadron mates. Erich Loewenhardt stands to the right.

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Catherine the Great Easter Egg, 1914 Faberge, St. Petersburg Gold, diamonds, pearls, opalescent enamel, opaque enamel, silver, platinum [803 x 1024]

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Most popular style of taco in Mexico by state [Source: Mexican Football Federation]

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Portugal defeats troops of the Dutch West India Company in the Battle of Guararapes in Pernambuco, Brazil - 1649

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Three boxes containing gold medals sit at the base of the pots of three young oak trees in this 1936 publicity photo of Jesse Owens, who is wearing the traditional laurel crown of an Olympic winner. The trees were given to each gold medalist by the German Olympic Committee [1992 x 1473].

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The Al Jahili Fort: one of the UAE's most historic buildings, it was erected in 1891 to defend the city and protect precious palm groves [1900 x 1425].

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Taino names of the Caribbean islands, based on research by historian Jalil Sued-Badillo

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A diver assesses the engine of a B-29 bomber that crashed into Lake Mead in 1948.

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The Appetite of the Octopus, France, 1914. Imperial Germany is depicted as a menacing hybrid of an eagle and an octopus [872 x 1200].

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Image for The Atlantic by Nicolas Ortega (2021); based on Joseph-Noel Sylvestre's The Sack of Rome in 410 by the Vandals

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Republican nominee for president Wendel Willkie reads a newspaper announcing his defeat to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 6, 1940 [2000 x 1539].

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The Silent Watcher, Great Britain, c. 1914-1915: the British fleet takes the symbolic form of a bulldog in the North Sea

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Saturnas vacuum cleaner, modeled after the American Hoover’s Constellation vacuum cleaner from 1955 and manufactured by the Welding Equipment Plant, USSR, 1962-70s [800 x 882].

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Gold bars recovered from the 1857 shipwreck of the USS Central America [1920 x 1080].

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Cuba gained its independence from the United States on May 20, 1902. The U.S. had taken control of the island in 1899 after defeating Spain in the Spanish-American War.

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Japanese mock-up used to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese War College worked out the attack from this model and in September 1941, Japanese carriers and planes practiced bombing on an obscure island of Japan [4688 x 3371].

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At least we admit our mistakes

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Most popular style of taco in Mexico by state [Source: Mexican Football Federation]

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Let us be thankful... American food poster issued by the U.S. Food Administration, 1918. Artist: A. Hendee

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Mexico City became the first entity in the country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2010. The current state of marriage equality in Mexico, courtesy of the Mexico Institute.

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Throne of Nicholas II, in St. Petersburg (Davide Monteleone)[1725 x 1380]

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“It’s a Wonderful Life” had its world premiere at New York's Globe Theatre on December 20, 1946, 75 years ago [808 x 1024].

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‘Mosley Speaks’ poster advertising a British Union of Fascists rally in 1934. Photo Wiener Holocaust Library Collections [620 x 775].

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The Marly Rouge Service: a Sevres porcelain iron-red and sky-blue ground part-dessert service made for Napoleon I, circa 1807-09. Up for auction, suggested staring bid approximately $200,000 [2220 x 2500].

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Peoples of the Soviet Union, National Geographic, 1976 [4879 x 3021].

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Be mine, Jimmy G. (Courtesy of the 49ers fb page)

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Robert F. Kennedy with two of his sons and John Glenn riding the Matterhorn Bobsled at Disneyland (Anaheim, California) June 3, 1968, one day before RFK's assassination [1280 x 853].

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S.S. President Roosevelt, official transport of the US Olympic Team for the IX Olympiad, Amsterdam, 1928. Built in 1921, she began transatlantic service for United States Lines in 1922, until converted to the troopship USS Joseph T. Dickman in 1941. She was scrapped in 1948 [X-post r/Oceanlinerporn]

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Fiat Tagliero Building in Asmara, capital city of Eritrea, a Futurist-style service station completed in 1938, designed by Italian architect Giuseppe Pettazzi. Pettazzi designed the building to resemble an airplane [3332 x 2296]

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January 22, 1962 marked the beginning of filming for The Manchurian Candidate, in which Frank Sinatra starred as Major Bennett Marco

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McCarthy - Peace, U.S. presidential campaign poster for Senator Eugene McCarthy by Ben Shahn, 1968 [1500 x 2274].

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The Search For Early Man: paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey and his family look for early hominid remains at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 1961, Photo by National Geographic [2048 x 1394].

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For the Same Victory! - Mexican WWII poster

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The German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper abandoned in dry dock at Kiel, Germany, May 1945 Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA [1922 x 1397].

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Don't know who to root for in the World Cup because the USA didn't qualify? No problem, just go back multiple generations! [From my former middle school history teacher]

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Sword of Col. Robert Gould Shaw leader of the Civil War's first all-black regiment, depicted in the 1989 movie Glory [3600 x 745]

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The remains of a 1947 billboard for Eliot Ness' campaign for mayor of Cleveland, in 1973. [2014 x 3000]

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U.S. shell-shock patients having a happy time fishing under the wall of the of the Chateau Chambord near Blois, September, 1918. Photo by Lewis Hine [1500 x 1070].

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Apollo 17 was the last manned lunar landing; it launched December 7, 1972. Here Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt pose with the lunar rover [2246 x 1768].

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ЛЬВИЦА (Lioness), Bars-class submarine, sunk June 11, 1917. This class carried a dozen 18-inch torpedoes: four launched from internal tubes and 8 in external Drzewiecki drop collars. Drop collars carried a torpedo in a cradle outside of the hull and launched from that position [1280 x 753].

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German Airship SL-11 goes down with all hands over Cuffley, England, 3 September 1916. Shot down by 2nd Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson of the 39th Home Guard Squadron, it was the first airship downed over British soil during WWI [OS][1175 x 1772].

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The boats are out! Germany, 1917 [3825 x 5669]

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Fiat Tagliero Building in Asmara, capital city of Eritrea, a Futurist-style service station completed in 1938, designed by Italian architect Giuseppe Pettazzi. Pettazzi designed the building to resemble an airplane [3332 x 2296]

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House of Soviets, Kaliningrad. Construction began in the 1970s, but the project was abandoned halfway through when engineers realized the foundations were sinking, making the building too dangerous to occupy. Aside from new paint and windows installed in 2005, it remains unfinished [1280 x 1455].

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Blood chit issued to the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers. It reads: This foreign person has come to China to help in the war effort. Soldiers and civilians, one and all, should rescue and protect him. [1000 x 1303]

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Pyongyang city view taken from the Yanggakdo International Hotel (Tariq Zaidi/ZUMA Press) [1072 x 715].

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Herbert Hoover conferring with Adolf Hitler, March 8, 1938, in Berlin. In their conversation, Hoover spoke up for personal liberty. The Fuhrer replied that Germany, unlike resource-rich America, could not afford such liberties [1484 x 867].

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Ivan Pavlov's dogs with their handlers at the Physiology Dept, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St. Petersburg 1904 [2048 x 1578].

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VP Henry A. Wallace plays basketball with American servicemen in Chongqing, China, 1944 [1600 x 1303].

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Members of the federal police show a bust relief portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017 [1500 x 1000].

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Cunard's former RMS Queen Elizabeth caught fire and sank in Hong Kong harbor on January 9, 1972, while being converted into the floating college Seawise University. A total loss, she sat partially submerged until scrapped in 1974. The fire is considered to have been the work of an arsonist.

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President William Howard Taft's pet cow, Pauline, stands the on lawn in front of the State, War and Navy Building in Washington, circa 1909-13. A gift from Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin, Taft was one of the last presidents to keep a cow at the White House [1024 x 767].

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German actress Hedwig Reicher wears the costume of Columbia with other suffrage pageant participants standing in background in front of the Treasury Building in Washington, District of Columbia, on March 3, 1913. The performance was part of the larger Suffrage Parade of 1913 [1200 x 765].

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Ringo Starr in Fabulous 208 Magazine (1960s)

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Jack Dempsey's endorsement of FDR's re-election, 1940

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Ships sunk by our U-boats... Berlin und Glogau Carl Flemming AG, ca. 1918 [2550 x 1986]

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Two of the many small boats which helped to bring in Allied troops during the emergency evacuation across the English Channel from Dunkirk, France, June 4, 1940[1200 x 914].

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USS Texas, after her commissioning in 1914 [1000 x 707].

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Apollo 17 was the last manned lunar landing; it launched December 7, 1972. Here Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt pose with the lunar rover [2246 x 1768].

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Ships sunk by our U-boats... Berlin und Glogau Carl Flemming AG, ca. 1918 [2550 x 1986]

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Solar Eclipse, Lompoc 1923, (1923) by Howard Russell Butler [800 x 1170].

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A smoke ring left by turret #1 as the USS Miami (CL-89) pounds the Palau islands on 7 September 1944. Note that a wartime censor has obliterated the SK and Mk 37s Mk 4 radar [x-post r/WarshipPorn]

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Excerpt from a B-29 Gunner's Manual

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SS Vaterland the largest steamer in the world c. 1914. Vaterland had made only a few trips when she arrived at New York City just as WWI broke out. She was laid up in Hoboken, NJ and remained immobile for nearly 3 years until seized by the United States Shipping Board in 1917 [1586 x 1003].

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The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Dock on 22 June 1948, carrying some 500 settlers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and other islands, as a response to post-war labor shortages in the UK. Caribbean immigrants arriving between 1948-1971 have been labelled the Windrush generation [1600 x 900].

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RMS Niagara: launched August 1912 and owned by the Union Steam Ship Company intended for the Australia-Vancouver, Canada service. Nicknamed the Titanic of the Pacific but dropped in favor of Queen of the Pacific after the sinking of the real RMS Titanic [1600 x 980].

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The Final Stand at Bladensburg, Maryland, 24 August 1814 - Colonel Charles Waterhouse's depiction of U.S. Marines manning their guns at Bladensburg, Maryland in defense of Washington D.C. against the British [1078 x 736].

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Dreadnoughts and hydroplane, British Grand Fleet, North Sea, 1914 [1500 x 947].

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Portrait of Chiang Kai-shek at the Tiananmen gate, 1946. [820 x 651]

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RMS Laconia (1921) successor to the 1911 Laconia. During WWII she was converted into a troopship and, like her predecessor during WWI, was sunk by German submarine. U-boat commander Werner Hartenstein staged a dramatic effort to rescue the passengers and crew, later dubbed the Laconia incident.

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Chinese gunboat Chung Shan: commissioned 1913; sunk 1938; raised 1997; restored, now a museum ship. [2592 x 3872]

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[SPECIFIC] Can someone please remove Her Majesty, the queen, from the corner of this stamp?

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The S.S. Normandie, seen from a Staten Island ship steaming through upper bay on its way to a river pier built for it, ca. 1935-1941 [1247 x 835].

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The marooned transport ship and Philippine military outpost BRP Sierra Madre [980 x 653].

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[Specific] Could someone please get rid of the U.N. emblem in the background?

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Cream of Wheat Ad, 1914

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HMS Formidable on fire after being struck by three kamikazes off Okinawa, May 9, 1945. [800 x 621]

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SS Columbus postcard. The Columbus was originally to be named Hindenburg. Her sister, originally named Columbus, was handed over to the White Star Line as war reparations. The Allies allowed the owners, Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), to keep the ship which they named after her departed sister.

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SS Conte di Savoia at Trieste, 1932. The ship had one unusual feature designed to increase passenger numbers: two huge gyroscopes fitted in a forward hold. These rotated at high revolutions and were designed to eliminate rolling.

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Generals Alvaro Obregon (L), Francisco Pancho Villa (M), John J. Pershing (R) and Lt. Dwight D. Eisenhower (FR) at Fort Bliss, 1913. [859 x 612]

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The U.S.S. Raleigh in action during the Spanish-American War, 1898 [1156 x 900].

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A Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter biplane aircraft taking off from a platform built on top of HMAS Australia's midships Q turret, in 1918 [1247 x 882].

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RMS Lusitania, circa 1907; sunk 99 years ago today [4291 x 275].

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Supreme Court Justice and former U.S. President William Howard Taft, Mexican President Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge at the White House, Ocotober 31, 1924. [890 × 650]

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General Billy Mitchell, standing, at his court-martial, 1925. [2862 x 1865]

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The MS St. Louis, carrying Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, arrives in the Belgian port of Antwerp after Cuba, the United States, and Canada denied it entry. June 17, 1939 [2113 x 1392].

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