Photo credits

Many photos on this site are used under free licences from Wikimedia Commons and other open sources. Thank you to the photographers below.

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  Edward VI, painted by an artist from the circle of William Scrots
  Photo: Circle of William Scrots, Public domain
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  A map of the West Indies printed by Henry Overton at the time of the war between Britain and Spain
  Photo: Henry Overton, Public domain
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  A carved winged figure at Pasargadae, in Iran
  Photo: Surenae, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Theodore Roosevelt, who was US president in 1901
  Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  The west front of Westminster Abbey in London
  Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0
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  Henry IV in a decorated letter from the records of the Duchy of Lancaster (The National Archives)
  Photo: The National Archives UK, Public domain
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  Suffragette leaders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst with a Votes for Women banner
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, painted by John Trumbull
  Photo: John Trumbull, Public domain
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  James VI of Scotland as a boy, in an old print (British Museum)
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, seen from the cloisters
  Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Max Planck, photographed by Hugo Erfurth in 1938
  Photo: Hugo Erfurth, Public domain
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  RMS Olympic arriving in New York for the first time
  Photo: Paul Thompson, Public domain
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  Sydney Opera House beside Sydney Harbour
  Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand, CC0
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  The Battle of Navarino, painted by Ambroise Louis Garneray
  Photo: Ambroise Louis Garneray, Public domain
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  Duke William lifts his helmet at Hastings — a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry
  Photo: Myrabella, Public domain
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  A silver penny of Robert the Bruce, probably made in the early 1320s
  Photo: National Museums Liverpool, Heather Beeton, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Mary, Queen of Scots, painted by François Clouet
  Photo: François Clouet, Public domain
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  Louis Le Prince, the inventor who made the Roundhay Garden Scene film
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Florence Nightingale, photographed by Henry Hering
  Photo: Henry Hering (1814-1893), Public domain
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  Thomas Edison, photographed by Bachrach Studios
  Photo: Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke, Public domain
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  The dwarf planet Eris and its moon Dysnomia, seen by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2024
  Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA JWST NIRCam; Ana Carolina de Souza Feliciano et al. & Melina Thévenot, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Tokugawa Ieyasu, painted by Kanō Tan'yū
  Photo: Kanō Tan'yū, Public domain
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  Mary of Modena, painted by Godfrey Kneller and his workshop
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller and workshop, Public domain
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  Orville Wright in 1905
  Photo: Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright (credited as photographers), Public domain
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  Marc Garneau in 2018
  Photo: International Maritime Organization, CC BY 2.0
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  P. G. Wodehouse in 1930
  Photo: Unlisted photographer for Screenland, Public domain
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  The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, painted by Jacques-Louis David
  Photo: Jacques-Louis David, Public domain
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  David Trimble's official House of Lords portrait
  Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0
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  An 1834 print of the fire that destroyed both Houses of Parliament
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Girton College, Cambridge, in the 1890s
  Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  Robert Stephenson, photographed by Maull & Polyblank in 1856
  Photo: Maull & Polybank, 55 Gracechurch Street, London, Public domain
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  Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  Photo: Benny Gool, Public domain
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  George II, painted by Thomas Hudson
  Photo: Thomas Hudson, Public domain
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  Ian Fleming, the author of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, around 1958
  Photo: Erich Hartmann, Public domain
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  Johann Sebastian Bach, painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann
  Photo: Elias Gottlob Haussmann, Public domain
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  Charles II, painted by John Michael Wright or his studio
  Photo: John Michael Wright, Public domain
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  Sellafield in Cumbria, seen from the air
  Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Johannes Kepler
  Photo: August Köhler, Public domain
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  Herman Melville, painted by Joseph Oriel Eaton
  Photo: Joseph Oriel Eaton, Public domain
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  Unveiling a plaque honouring the 'Valiant Five' women behind the Persons Case
  Photo: Eugene M. Finn / National Film Board of Canada, Public domain
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  Johannes Brahms
  Photo: C. Brasch, Berlin (biography), Public domain
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  Philip II of Spain, painted by Sofonisba Anguissola
  Photo: Sofonisba Anguissola, Public domain
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  John Smith, Speaker of the House of Commons around 1707, painted by Godfrey Kneller
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  Alberto Santos-Dumont, photographed by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
  Photo: Zaida Ben-Yusuf / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  Later members of the iPod family
  Photo: Kyro, CC BY 3.0
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  British Airways Concorde G-BOAC in flight
  Photo: Eduard Marmet, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Whitby, painted by Charles Bentley (Yale Center for British Art)
  Photo: Charles Bentley, CC0
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  William Lassell, British astronomer
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Marianne North at her home in Ceylon, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
  Photo: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), Public domain
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  King George III in his coronation robes, painted by Allan Ramsay
  Photo: Allan Ramsay, Public domain
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  Richard Parkes Bonington, painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter
  Photo: Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Public domain
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  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, photographed by Émile Reutlinger
  Photo: Émile Reutlinger, Public domain
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  The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, painted by Pierre-Julien Gilbert
  Photo: Pierre-Julien Gilbert, Public domain
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  The Treaty of Ripon plaque put up by Ripon Civic Society
  Photo: Richard Collier, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Uluru in central Australia
  Photo: Ek2030372672, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Thomas Martin Lowry, English chemist
  Photo: Anonymous, Public domain
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  Catherine of Valois, from an old drawing of her wedding
  Photo: Caxton Master, "The Beauchamp Pageants", Public domain
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  The Instrument of Abdication signed by Edward VIII in December 1936
  Photo: Edward VIII, Public domain
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  The spare Prospero satellite on show in London
  Photo: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  An early edition of Gulliver's Travels
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  Tutankhamun's golden mask in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  Photo: Roland Unger, Public domain
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  A historical map of the Ming Empire around 1415
  Photo: Albert Herrmann & Georg Westermann, Public domain
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  James Boswell, painted by Joshua Reynolds
  Photo: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain
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  John Glenn's official portrait from the US Senate
  Photo: U.S. Senate Historical Office, Public domain
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  Crowds gather on Wall Street in New York during the 1929 crash
  Photo: US-gov, Public domain
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  Geneva, Switzerland, where the Red Cross was founded
  Photo: fr:Utilisateur:Stéphane_Pecorini, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
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  Sir Christopher Wren, painted by Godfrey Kneller in 1711
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  The rebuilt Frauenkirche in Dresden
  Photo: Netopyr, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Orson Welles speaks to reporters the day after The War of the Worlds broadcast
  Photo: Acme News Photos, Public domain
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  A replica of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, kept at the National Air and Space Museum
  Photo: NSSDC, NASA, Public domain
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  A wooden restaurant car from the Orient Express, on display in the Railway Museum in Utrecht
  Photo: Tman11S, CC0
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  Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector, painted by Gerard Soest
  Photo: Gerard Soest, Public domain
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  The red plaque in Dock Street, London, that remembers the Battle of Cable Street
  Photo: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  British Airways Concorde G-BOAC in flight
  Photo: Eduard Marmet, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The colourful title page of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  The coronation of King Henry III, from a medieval manuscript
  Photo: Anonymous, Public domain
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  King Edgar, a detail from the New Minster Charter of 966
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Duke William's ships crossing the sea to Pevensey, shown on the Bayeux Tapestry
  Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Professor Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, in his laboratory
  Photo: Official photographer, Public domain
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  The Sycamore Gap tree, standing in a dip by Hadrian's Wall
  Photo: Clementp.fr, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Sir William Jones, painted by Joshua Reynolds
  Photo: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain
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  Two Avro Anson planes resting 'piggyback' in a field near Brocklesby after a mid-air collision locked them together
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Blackpool heritage tram number 230
  Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net), CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Horatio Nelson, painted by Lemuel Francis Abbott
  Photo: Lemuel Francis Abbott, Public domain
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  Johann Sebastian Bach, aged 61, painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann
  Photo: Elias Gottlob Haussmann, Public domain
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  German children watch a C-54 plane come in to land at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift
  Photo: Henry Ries / USAF, Public domain
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  City of Everett, the prototype Boeing 747, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle
  Photo: Fawcett5, Public domain
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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from a family portrait by Johann Nepomuk della Croce
  Photo: Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Public domain
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  Suleiman the Magnificent, painted in the workshop of Titian
  Photo: Circle of Titian, Public domain
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  John Logie Baird's original experimental television apparatus, with the puppet head Stooky Bill, at the National Science and Media Museum
  Photo: GolurkKoopa, CC0
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  Portrait of Richard III, painted after a lost original
  Photo: Barthel ii, Public domain
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  King Edward IV
  Photo: Lucas Horenbout, Public domain
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  A coin of Saladin dated 1190–91, showing the sultan sitting cross-legged on a throne
  Photo: Classical Numismatic Group (CNG), CC BY-SA 2.5
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  The battle in the strait between Calais and Dover in October 1602, painted by Andries van Eertvelt
  Photo: Andries van Eertvelt, Public domain
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  Space Shuttle Atlantis, photographed from the International Space Station
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Abraham Lincoln, photographed by Alexander Gardner on 8 November 1863
  Photo: Alexander Gardner, Public domain
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  Nadine Gordimer at the Göteborg Book Fair in 2010
  Photo: Boberger. Photo: Bengt Oberger, CC BY 3.0
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  An artist's picture of the MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around Mercury
  Photo: NASA / JHU/APL, Public domain
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  The Ulysses spacecraft and its booster rocket being released from Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-41
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Louis XVI of France in his royal robes, painted by Antoine-François Callet
  Photo: Antoine-François Callet, Public domain
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  A cover of the French magazine Le Petit Journal about the Bosnian Crisis of 1908
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Gambetta sets off in the balloon Armand-Barbès on 7 October 1870, painted by Jules Didier and Jacques Guiaud
  Photo: Jules Didier (1831-1892) and Jacques Guiaud (1811-1876), Public domain
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  Workers on Henry Ford's assembly line in 1913
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  King George III in his coronation robes, painted by Allan Ramsay
  Photo: Allan Ramsay, Public domain
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  Harry Kroto at the Nobel Laureate Symposium in Stockholm in 2011
  Photo: Janwikifoto, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Stephenson's Rocket at the Science Museum in London
  Photo: Oxyman, CC BY 2.5
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  The tomb of Isabella of Angoulême in Fontevraud Abbey, France
  Photo: UAltmann, Public domain
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  Official portrait of Baroness Boothroyd (Betty Boothroyd)
  Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0
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  The Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974
  Photo: Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0
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  The astronomical clock in Prague
  Photo: Steve Collis from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0
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  What remains of Kepler's Supernova, in a NASA picture combining X-ray, visible and infrared light
  Photo: NASA/ESA/JHU/R.Sankrit & W.Blair, Public domain
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  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek at his writing table, painted by Jan Verkolje
  Photo: Jan Verkolje, Public domain
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  John Lennon in a 1974 press photo
  Photo: Bob Gruen; Distributed by Capitol Records, Public domain
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  The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964
  Photo: Keystone Press, Public domain
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  Carved sheep, standing for the twelve apostles, on the remains of the Theodosian church of Hagia Sophia
  Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A formal portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst, seated
  Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  A picture of the scientist Henry Cavendish, with his signature
  Photo: George Wilson, Public domain
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  Apollo 7 lifts off from Launch Complex 34 at Kennedy Space Center on 11 October 1968
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan checks an antenna latch in Challenger's open cargo bay during her spacewalk
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  President Reagan meets Mikhail Gorbachev at Höfði House during the Reykjavik Summit, Iceland, 1986
  Photo: Ronald Reagan Library, Public domain
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  Emily Wilding Davison wearing her hunger strike medal and Holloway brooch
  Photo: Andrew William Dron (1864-1935); Restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  The Soyuz rocket carrying the first International Space Station crew lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Martin Luther, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1528
  Photo: Lucas Cranach the Elder, Public domain
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  A gold solidus coin of Romulus Augustulus
  Photo: ANS, CC0
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  John Keats, painted by William Hilton
  Photo: William Hilton, Public domain
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  InterCity 125 power car 43002 in its original colours, unveiled at Bristol in 2016
  Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A proof sheet of one penny stamps prepared for the Stamp Act of 1765
  Photo: Board of Stamps (engraver unknown), Public domain
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  King William III, painted by Godfrey Kneller
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  Empress Matilda, shown in the Gospels of Henry the Lion
  Photo: Artist unknown; the Gospels of Henry the Lion, Public domain
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  The International Space Station, photographed by the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-97
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  President Ronald Reagan signs the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, in the White House Rose Garden on 2 November 1983
  Photo: White House Photo Office, Public domain
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  The M1 motorway in Yorkshire, south of Leeds
  Photo: Klaus with K, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  A portrait of the mathematician George Boole
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Harry S. Truman holds up the Chicago Daily Tribune with its mistaken headline, at Union Station in St. Louis on 4 November 1948
  Photo: Byron H. Rollins, Public domain
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  A replica of Sputnik 2, the spacecraft that carried Laika
  Photo: Laika ac from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Henry VIII, painted by the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger
  Photo: Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain
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  Daniel Rutherford, painted by Henry Wright Kerr
  Photo: Henry Wright Kerr, Public domain
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  Inside the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun
  Photo: EditorfromMars, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  The badge of the City and South London Railway, on the monument to James Henry Greathead in the City of London
  Photo: Denis Barber, CC BY 2.0
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  Catherine of Aragon, in a miniature painting by Lucas Horenbout
  Photo: Lucas Horenbout, Public domain
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  Queen Mary II, painted by Godfrey Kneller
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  The Gunpowder Plot conspirators, by Crispijn van de Passe the Elder
  Photo: Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, Public domain
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  India's Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft over Mars, a computer picture by Kevin Gill
  Photo: Kevin Gill from Nashua, NH, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Franklin D. Roosevelt at his 1944 official campaign portrait session
  Photo: Leon Perskie, CC BY 2.0
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  The walls of Constantinople
  Photo: Apaleutos25, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  An artist's picture of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft
  Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Corby Waste, Public domain
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  A tufted jay, photographed by the Durango Highway in Sinaloa
  Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0
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  A reprint of the front page of The London Gazette for 3–10 September 1666, reporting the Fire of London
  Photo: London Gazette, Public domain
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  John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, painted by Joshua Reynolds
  Photo: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain
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  The Bodleian Library in Oxford
  Photo: Remi Mathis, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, photographed by Cecil W. Stoughton
  Photo: Cecil W. Stoughton, Public domain
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  Edmond Halley, painted by Thomas Murray
  Photo: Thomas Murray, Public domain
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  Led Zeppelin in a 1971 promotional photo: John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and Robert Plant
  Photo: Atlantic Records, Public domain
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  Apollo 4 lifts off on 9 November 1967, the first test flight of the Saturn V rocket (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  The rough Cullinan diamond, before it was cut
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  William of Orange and his Dutch army land at Brixham in 1688, painted by Johan Herman Isings
  Photo: Johan Herman Isings, Public domain
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  Portrait of King George II by Thomas Hudson
  Photo: Thomas Hudson, Public domain
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  The Painter and his Pug: William Hogarth's self-portrait with his pug, Trump, 1745
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  The Hope Diamond
  Photo: David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Henry Morton Stanley, the journalist and explorer
  Photo: Creator:J. Russel & Sons, Public domain
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  An artist's picture of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander beginning to shut down as winter sets in on Mars
  Photo: NASA/JPL-Calech/University of Arizona, Corby Waste, Public domain
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  Officers outside the railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne, after the armistice that ended the First World War was agreed
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  The grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, edged with poppies in November 2010
  Photo: Mike from England, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  The remains of Tycho's supernova, in a picture combining X-ray, infrared and visible-light observations (NASA)
  Photo: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: MPIA, Calar Alto, O.Krause et al, Public domain
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  The patent drawing of Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard's refrigerator, with colours added to show how it works
  Photo: Einstein/Szilard with annotations by P. Brandon Malloy, Public domain
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  A maglev train coming out of Pudong International Airport, Shanghai
  Photo: User Alex Needham (own photography) on en.wikipedia, Public domain
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  An artist's impression of the Philae lander (ESA)
  Photo: ESA/ATG medialab, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  NASA's artist's drawing of the design used for the twin Voyager spacecraft
  Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Public domain
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  The Wilberforce statue on its column in Queen's Gardens, Kingston upon Hull
  Photo: Keith D at en.wikipedia, CC BY 3.0
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  Edward III in a blue Order of the Garter robe, from a manuscript painted about 1430–1440
  Photo: William Bruges, Public domain
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  The Battle of Sheriffmuir, painted by John Wootton
  Photo: John Wootton, Public domain
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  Robert Louis Stevenson, photographed by Henry Walter Barnett
  Photo: Henry Walter Barnett, Public domain
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  Walt Disney in a publicity photo from 1946
  Photo: Boy Scouts of America, Public domain
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  The Mariner 9 spacecraft (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Apollo 12 commander Charles Conrad Jr. examines the Surveyor III spacecraft on the Moon (photo by Alan L. Bean, NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Alan L. Bean, Public domain
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  Nellie Bly (the pen name of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), photographed by H. J. Myers
  Photo: H. J. Myers, photographer, Public domain
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  King Charles III in July 2023 (White House photo)
  Photo: White House, Public domain
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  An Intel C4004 microprocessor in a white ceramic case with a gold plate
  Photo: Peter1912 at German Wikipedia, Public domain
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  The Soviet space shuttle Buran on top of the An-225 Mriya aircraft at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, 1989
  Photo: MASTER SGT. DAVE CASEY, Public domain
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  William Herschel, painted by Lemuel Francis Abbott
  Photo: Lemuel Francis Abbott, Public domain
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  Aneurin Bevan, photographed by Howard Coster in 1943
  Photo: Howard Coster, Public domain
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  The Skylab space station photographed by the Skylab 4 crew during their final fly-around (NASA)
  Photo: NASA (Crew of Skylab 4), Public domain
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  A painting at Westminster Abbey from the reign of Edward I, thought to show the King
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  David Livingstone, missionary and explorer, photographed by Thomas Annan
  Photo: Thomas Annan / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  A gold bracelet from the Hoxne Hoard
  Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net), CC BY-SA 4.0
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  The Darnley Portrait of Elizabeth I, probably painted from life
  Photo: Unidentified painter, Public domain
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  Saint Hugh of Lincoln with his swan, on an altarpiece from a Carthusian monastery in France
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  The seal of John Balliol, King of Scotland
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  The Port of Suez in Egypt, at the end of the Suez Canal, photographed from the International Space Station (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Suffragette leaders Annie Kenney (left) and Christabel Pankhurst with a Votes for Women sign
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  W. S. Gilbert, photographed by Elliott & Fry
  Photo: Elliott & Fry; restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  The original 1928 poster for Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse's first animated short
  Photo: Walt Disney / Ub Iwerks, Public domain
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  An artist's concept of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  King Charles I, from the workshop of Anthony van Dyck
  Photo: Workshop of Anthony van Dyck, Public domain
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  The Mayflower at Sea, an old postcard published by A. S. Burbank
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  An early 20th-century poster showing Abraham Lincoln above the text of the Gettysburg Address
  Photo: Published by M.T. Sheahan, Boston, Mass, Public domain
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  Queen Elizabeth II in her official portrait for her 1959 tour, by Donald McKague
  Photo: Donald McKague, Public domain
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  President Anwar Sadat of Egypt arriving for a visit to the United States
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  The playbill for the first performance of the final version of Beethoven's Fidelio, Vienna, 23 May 1814
  Photo: Druckerei Wiener Hoftheater, Public domain
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  The First World War Mark IV tank Flirt II at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life
  Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Mayflower Compact, 1620, painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
  Photo: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Public domain
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  The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge, which links Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City
  Photo: H.L.I.T, Public domain
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  The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer, painted by Jacob Coning
  Photo: Jacob Coning, Public domain
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  A print of the Montgolfier balloon experiment at the Château de la Muette on 21 November 1783
  Photo: Anonyme, graveur, CC0
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  Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference, 1943
  Photo: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), Public domain
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  George Eliot aged 30, painted by the Swiss artist François d'Albert Durade
  Photo: replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain
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  The English composer Benjamin Britten in Budapest, Hungary
  Photo: Szalay Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Cutty Sark on display in London
  Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  The cart of Thespis (Theatrica), a carved stone panel by Nino Pisano, 1334–1336
  Photo: sailko, CC BY 2.5
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  The English scientist Henry Moseley
  Photo: AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates, Public domain
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  A New Shepard rocket booster on display at the Oshkosh AirVenture show in 2017
  Photo: LunchboxLarry, CC BY 2.0
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  The Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away
  Photo: Adam Evans, CC BY 2.0
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  A Navy Sea King helicopter recovers the Apollo 12 crew near the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on 24 November 1969
  Photo: USN, Public domain
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  The title page of the first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859
  Photo: John Murray, Publisher, Public domain
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  Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Abel Janszoon Tasman, the navigator, in an old engraving
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park, Canada
  Photo: Gorgo, Public domain
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  A de Havilland Mosquito B Mk IV of No. 105 Squadron, Royal Air Force, in flight
  Photo: Fotoafdrukken Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Photo Prints, Royal Netherlands Air Force; restored by Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Elizabeth of York, a 16th-century painting in the Royal Collection
  Photo: After Meynnart Wewyck, Public domain
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  The novelist Agatha Christie at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
  Photo: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0
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  British Airways Concorde G-BOAC in flight
  Photo: Eduard Marmet, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The archaeologist Howard Carter at a railway station in Chicago
  Photo: Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer, Public domain
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  The John Harvard statue, an idealised figure, since nobody knows what he really looked like
  Photo: alainedouard, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal in Wales
  Photo: Adrian Pingstone, Public domain
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  Winstanley's Eddystone Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rock
  Photo: Henry winstanley, Public domain
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  Alfred Nobel
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Pope Urban II, a detail from a medieval manuscript made for the monastery of Cluny
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Space Shuttle Atlantis, photographed from the International Space Station (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  William Shakespeare, in a portrait attributed to John Taylor
  Photo: Attributed to John Taylor, Public domain
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  Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat as a Member of Parliament (photo by Bassano Ltd)
  Photo: Bassano Ltd, Public domain
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  William Blake, painted by Thomas Phillips
  Photo: Thomas Phillips, Public domain
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  The chart examined by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967, showing the radio signal of the first identified pulsar
  Photo: Billthom, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A Pong arcade cabinet signed by Pong's creator Allan Alcorn, at the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin
  Photo: Chris Rand, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Richard E. Byrd in 1928
  Photo: Underwood & Underwood, Public domain
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  Michael Jackson in a press photo from 1983
  Photo: Matthew Rolston; Distributed by Epic Records, Public domain
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  A tinfoil phonograph of 1878, invented by Thomas Edison, at the National Museum of American History
  Photo: Daderot, CC0
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  The Crystal Palace, a general view from the Water Temple, photographed by Philip Henry Delamotte
  Photo: Philip Henry Delamotte (1821–1889), Public domain
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  A notice for the first association football international, England v. Scotland, played at Hamilton Crescent
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Alan Turing, photographed on 29 March 1951 by Elliott & Fry
  Photo: Elliott & Fry, Public domain
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  A signed photograph of Lucy Maud Montgomery
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Henry V in a manuscript painting made about 1420 (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 213)
  Photo: Jean Galopes, Public domain
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  Rosa Parks in November 1956
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Madame Tussaud at the age of 42
  Photo: "A Portrait Study by John T. Tussaud", Public domain
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  An aerial view of St Paul's Cathedral, London
  Photo: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0
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  Space Shuttle Endeavour in orbit above the Earth, on a later mission in 2008 (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  The physicist Enrico Fermi
  Photo: Department of Energy-Office of Public Affairs, restored by Yann, Public domain
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  The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David: Josephine kneels before Napoleon at Notre-Dame, with Pope Pius VII seated behind him
  Photo: Jacques-Louis David / Georges Rouget, Public domain
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  The poster for Laurel and Hardy's 1927 film Putting Pants on Philip
  Photo: Clyde Bruckman, Public domain
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  An artist's picture of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft using its ion engines (DLR)
  Photo: DLR German Aerospace Center, CC BY 2.0
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  Octavia Hill, painted by John Singer Sargent
  Photo: John Singer Sargent, Public domain
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  Jupiter's cloud tops, photographed by the Pioneer 10 spacecraft as it flew past (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  The ship that became the Mary Celeste, painted in 1861 when she was called the Amazon, entering Marseilles
  Photo: Unconfirmed, possibly Honore Pellegrin (1800–c.1870). This speculative attribution is suggested in Paul Begg: Mary Celes, Public domain
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  Team photograph of the Montreal Canadiens in 1909–10
  Photo: Albert Dumas, Public domain
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  King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) in a medieval painting
  Photo: Anonymous, Public domain
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  Edith Cavell
  Photo: The original uploader was Vivedatica at Dutch Wikipedia, Public domain
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  Shackleton's ship Endurance under sail, trying to break through the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, photographed by Frank Hurley
  Photo: Frank Hurley, Public domain
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  Three men and a woman searching for gold during the California Gold Rush
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  James Christie, the auctioneer, painted by Thomas Gainsborough
  Photo: Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain
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  Sir Francis Drake, painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger in 1591
  Photo: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Public domain
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  Henry VI in an illuminated miniature from the Shrewsbury Book
  Photo: Poems and Romances (Shrewsbury book), illuminated by the MASTER OF JOHN TALBOT, Public domain
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  The signatures on the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  The Aardman animator Nick Park at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2007
  Photo: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0
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  Sandra Morgan at the Dutch swimming championships in Schiedam, 1958
  Photo: Daan Noske / Anefo, CC0
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  An artist's picture of NASA's Galileo spacecraft flying past Jupiter's moon Io
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  The Royal Opera House on Bow Street, Covent Garden, with a statue of a ballerina in front
  Photo: Russ London (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
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  A model of Japan's Akatsuki space probe on display
  Photo: 江戸村のとくぞう, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  An aerial view of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, with a Navy tour boat at its pier
  Photo: DoD photo by: PH3(AW/SW) JAYME PASTORIC, USN, Public domain
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  Mary, Queen of Scots, painted by François Clouet
  Photo: François Clouet, Public domain
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  Signing the agreement to end the USSR and set up the Commonwealth of Independent States, December 1991
  Photo: U. Ivanov / Ю. Иванов, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Franklin D. Roosevelt in his official 1944 campaign portrait, by Leon Perskie
  Photo: Leon Perskie, CC BY 2.0
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  Margaret Hughes, painted by Peter Lely in 1672
  Photo: Peter Lely, Public domain
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  A replica of Douglas Engelbart's prototype computer mouse from about 1964, at the Computer History Museum
  Photo: Jordiipa, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  A portrait of John Milton in the National Portrait Gallery, London
  Photo: anonymous, Public domain
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  Judi Dench at the London Palladium in March 2023
  Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0
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  The cover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884, with art by E. W. Kemble
  Photo: E. W. Kemble, Public domain
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  Ada Lovelace in a daguerreotype photograph by Antoine Claudet, 1843
  Photo: Antoine Claudet, Public domain
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  Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), photographed by Freeland Studio
  Photo: Freeland Studio, Public domain
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  Martin Luther, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1528
  Photo: Lucas Cranach the Elder, Public domain
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  Edward VIII's signed statement of abdication
  Photo: Edward VIII, Public domain
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  The Scottish scientist David Brewster
  Photo: Scottish Scientists, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt next to a huge split boulder on the Moon, photographed by Eugene Cernan (NASA)
  Photo: NASA Eugene A. Cernan, Public domain
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  The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Louvre
  Photo: Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain
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  Guglielmo Marconi, photographed by Pach Brothers
  Photo: Pach Brothers, Public domain
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  Gukesh Dommaraju at the chessboard in 2025
  Photo: Frans Peeters, CC BY-SA 2.0
• 
  Joseph Rainey of South Carolina, photographed by Mathew Brady's studio
  Photo: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain
• 
  Yuan Shikai, President of China, in 1915
  Photo: Photo by Rio V. De Sieux, Public domain
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  An artist's picture of NASA's Relay 1 satellite
  Photo: user:NH2501, Public domain
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  The cruiser HMS Achilles seen from HMS Ajax at the Battle of the River Plate
  Photo: Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain
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  Saint Peter Celestine (Pope Celestine V), the main panel of a triptych by Niccolò di Tommaso
  Photo: Niccolò di Tommaso, Public domain
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  Henri IV, King of France, painted by Frans Pourbus the Younger
  Photo: Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain
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  Roald Amundsen dressed in furs
  Photo: Anonymous, Public domain
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  A portrait of King George VI
  Photo: Matson Photo Service, Public domain
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  The Millau Viaduct seen in the distance from Peyre, France
  Photo: Daniel CULSAN, CC BY-SA 4.0
• 
  Mariner 2, the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft (NASA/JPL)
  Photo: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Public domain
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  Maurice Wilkins
  Photo: The original uploader was C. Goemans at German Wikipedia, Public domain
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  Harold Abrahams of the Achilles Club at the Stade Pershing in Paris, June 1921
  Photo: Agence Rol, Public domain
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  A map of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, 1906–1931
  Photo: created by DavidCane, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Gemini 7 spacecraft photographed from Gemini 6 during their rendezvous on 15 December 1965 (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  A scrum between Wales and New Zealand (the Original All Blacks) during their match in Cardiff, December 1905
  Photo: Credited to Bowden Brothers photography, Public domain
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  Jane Austen, a watercolour and pencil portrait by her sister Cassandra Austen
  Photo: Cassandra Austen, Public domain
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  Beatrix Potter, in an old snapshot by Charles G. Y. King
  Photo: Charles G.Y. King (1854-1937), Public domain
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  Oliver Cromwell, after a portrait by Samuel Cooper
  Photo: After Samuel Cooper, Public domain
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  The first successful flight of the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on 17 December 1903 (photo by John T. Daniels)
  Photo: John T. Daniels, Public domain
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  A Douglas DC-3 airliner in flight
  Photo: Towpilot, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Sir Humphry Davy, painted by Thomas Phillips
  Photo: Thomas Phillips, Public domain
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  Jacqueline Wilson at Waterstones Piccadilly, London, in December 2019
  Photo: Edwardx, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Gonzalo Montiel takes the winning penalty that made Argentina world champions in 2022
  Photo: Sebas, CC BY 3.0
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  A portrait of Kublai Khan, attributed to Araniko
  Photo: Araniko, Public domain
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  Thomas Paine, painted by Laurent Dabos
  Photo: Laurent Dabos, Public domain
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  Charles Wesley
  Photo: User Magnus Manske on en.wikipedia, Public domain
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  A first edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, London, Chapman & Hall, 1843
  Photo: Charles Dickens, Photographer: Heritage Auctions, Inc. Dallas, Texas, Public domain
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  A Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost at the company's centenary celebrations in Manchester, 2004
  Photo: The original uploader was Malcolma at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5
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  King Henry II, a rare picture made in his own time, from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hiberniae
  Photo: Gerald of Wales, Public domain
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  An artist's impression of ESA's Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way
  Photo: European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
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  The 1946 poster for It's a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart and Donna Reed
  Photo: "Copyright 1946 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.", Public domain
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  A map showing the land of the Louisiana Purchase within the present-day United States
  Photo: William Morris, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  The tomb figure of Richard I of England in the church of Fontevraud Abbey
  Photo: Adam Bishop, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Charleston Mercury's printed announcement of South Carolina's secession, 1860
  Photo: Charleston Mercury, Public domain
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  Earthrise, photographed by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders while in orbit around the Moon on 24 December 1968
  Photo: NASA/Bill Anders, Public domain
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  A 1937 poster for Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, by Gustaf Tenggren
  Photo: Gustaf Tenggren, Public domain
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  The Antonov An-225 Mriya at Leipzig/Halle airport
  Photo: Myroslav Kaplun, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  The volcano Popocatépetl in Mexico, seen from the north
  Photo: Jakub Hejtmánek, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Ludwig van Beethoven, part of a painting by Joseph Willibrord Mähler
  Photo: Joseph Willibrord Mähler, Public domain
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  West and East Germans at the Brandenburg Gate in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell
  Photo: Unknown photographer, Reproduction by Lear 21 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Itō Hirobumi, Japan's first prime minister
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  An SR-71B Blackbird, flown by NASA, over the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains of California
  Photo: USAF / Judson Brohmer, Public domain
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  Hansel and Gretel at the Vienna State Opera in 2015, with Daniela Sirdam (Hansel) and Ileana Tonca (Gretel)
  Photo: Christian Michelides, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Sir Richard Arkwright, painted by Mather Brown in 1790
  Photo: Mather Brown, Public domain
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  A replica of the first working transistor, next to a later 2N43 transistor
  Photo: Mister rf, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  The title page of the first edition of Jane Austen's Emma
  Photo: Jane Austen, Public domain
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  The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814, painted by Amédée Forestier
  Photo: Amédée Forestier, CC0
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  Christmas Eve, a painting by J. Hoover & Son, 1878
  Photo: J. Hoover & Son, Public domain
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  Kiritimati (Christmas Island) seen from the International Space Station (NASA)
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Isaac Newton in 1689, painted by Godfrey Kneller
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  A silver denier coin of Charlemagne, made at Mainz around 812–814
  Photo: Charlemagne. Autorité émettrice de monnaie indéterminé. Atelier monétaire. Émetteur, Public domain
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  A replica of the Beagle 2 Mars lander in the Science Museum, London
  Photo: user:geni, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Halley's Comet photographed on 8 March 1986 from Easter Island (NASA/W. Liller)
  Photo: NASA/W. Liller, Public domain
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  Cordelia's Portion, a painting of a scene from King Lear by Ford Madox Brown
  Photo: Ford Madox Brown, Public domain
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  Thespis by Gilbert and Sullivan, drawn by D. H. Friston for the Illustrated London News, 6 January 1872
  Photo: David Henry Friston, Public domain
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  Mary Somerville, writer on science, painted by Thomas Phillips
  Photo: Thomas Phillips, Public domain
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  Crowds outside the Capitol in Washington waiting to see Winston Churchill, from the Washington Evening Star, 1941
  Photo: Star staff photographer, Public domain
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  HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan, drawn by R. T. Pritchett
  Photo: R. T. Pritchett, Public domain
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  Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
  Photo: Adli Wahid, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō during tests in Tokyo Bay in December 1922
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Radio City Music Hall in New York
  Photo: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0
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  The west front of Westminster Abbey
  Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0
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  Neptune photographed by NASA's Voyager 2 probe on 17 August 1989
  Photo: NASA / Voyager 2 / PDS / OPUS / Ardenau4, CC0
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  A male and female huia, illustrated by J. G. Keulemans
  Photo: J. G. Keulemans, Public domain
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  The skyline of Adelaide and the River Torrens in December 2022
  Photo: File:Adelaide skyline, December 2022.jpg: Ardash Muradian from Australia derivative work: Georgfotoart, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  A computer model of molecule-sized gears made from atoms, from research at NASA Ames Research Center
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  The signing of the Anglo-American loan agreement at the State Department, Washington, on 6 December 1945
  Photo: The National Archives UK, Public domain
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  William Ewart Gladstone in 1892, photographed by Samuel Alexander Walker
  Photo: Samuel Alexander Walker, Public domain
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  Václav Havel at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in 1997
  Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  A Tokyo Metro 1000 series train on the Ginza Line between Shibuya and Omotesando
  Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  The Antarctic expedition ship Discovery anchored to the ice
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  University College Cork, County Cork
  Photo: Michael O'Sheil, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A drawing of a lost gold medallion of Emperor Justinian I
  Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author Voir : https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1118635001, Public domain
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  Fireworks over Edinburgh on New Year's Eve
  Photo: Robbie Shade, CC BY 2.0
• 
  An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-144 taking off
  Photo: clipperarctic, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  A map of Czechoslovakia between 1969 and 1990, showing its Czech and Slovak parts
  Photo: PANONIAN, Public domain
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  A woodcut of the famous dinner held inside Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's Crystal Palace Iguanodon
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Queen Victoria, photographed by Alexander Bassano in 1882
  Photo: Alexander Bassano, Public domain
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  The title page of the first edition of Frankenstein, 1818
  Photo: Mary Shelley, Public domain
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  A British Railways steam express from Carlisle to Birmingham at Hartford Junction in 1964
  Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  King Charles II, painted by John Michael Wright or his studio
  Photo: John Michael Wright, Public domain
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  A model of the Soviet space probe Luna 1 shown at an exhibition in Moscow
  Photo: RIAN_archive_510848_Interplanetary_station_Luna_1.jpg: Alexander Mokletsov / Александр Моклецов derivative work: Craigbo, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  An artist's picture of NASA's Stardust spacecraft
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  The cover of the first edition of R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Thomas Telford, painted by Henry Raeburn
  Photo: Henry Raeburn, Public domain
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  J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1920s, when he left Leeds University
  Photo: Unknown photo studio commissioned by Tolkien's students 1925/6 (private communication from Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien, Public domain
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  The far side of the Moon, photographed by NASA
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  A Hamilton Electric wristwatch
  Photo: Ofbarea, Public domain
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  Emperor Meiji, painted by Takahashi Yuichi
  Photo: Takahashi Yuichi (1828-1894), Public domain
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  The old Palace of Whitehall, painted by Hendrick Danckerts. The Banqueting House is on the left
  Photo: Hendrick Danckerts, Public domain
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  King Charles I, painted by the workshop of Anthony van Dyck
  Photo: Workshop of Anthony van Dyck, Public domain
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  A model of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, in a museum in St Petersburg
  Photo: Andrey Butko, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Burj Khalifa towering over Dubai
  Photo: Laika ac, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  The front of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris
  Photo: Peter Rivera, CC BY 2.0
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  Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1934
  Photo: Associated Oil Company / Chas. M. Hiller, Public domain
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  Richard Nixon's official portrait as US president
  Photo: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual, Public domain
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  The Adoration of the Magi, a wall painting by Giotto in Assisi
  Photo: Giotto, Public domain
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  A close-up of the stitches on the Bayeux Tapestry, showing Harold
  Photo: ~, Public domain
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  The Westminster Portrait of King Richard II, painted in the 1390s
  Photo: anonymous / Possibly André Beauneveu, Public domain
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  Doctor Maria Montessori, the Italian teacher and doctor
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Professor Alfred Wegener
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan, drawn by R. T. Pritchett
  Photo: R. T. Pritchett, Public domain
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  A picture made from space photos showing Jupiter and its four large moons, the ones Galileo saw
  Photo: WhatADrag07, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Jean-Pierre Blanchard, the French balloonist
  Photo: J. Newton, sculpsit ; R. Livesay, pinxit, Public domain
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  Francis, Duke of Guise, painted by the workshop of François Clouet
  Photo: Workshop of François Clouet, Public domain
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  One adult's weekly food ration in Britain in 1942, with a ration book
  Photo: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Public domain
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  The ocean liner Queen Mary 2 in the port of Boston
  Photo: Oceanhistory46, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  George Frideric Handel, in a portrait attributed to Balthasar Denner
  Photo: Attributed to Balthasar Denner, Public domain
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  King Æthelred of Wessex in a royal family tree made in the 1300s
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  The Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 astronauts lifts off in 1969
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Drawings of the Davy lamp, a safety lamp for use in coal mines
  Photo: Scan made by Kogo, Public domain
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  Admiral Horatio Nelson, painted by Lemuel Francis Abbott
  Photo: Lemuel Francis Abbott, Public domain
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  The explorer Ernest Shackleton
  Photo: George Charles Beresford / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  A Victorian print of the stations of the Metropolitan Underground Railway
  Photo: Unknown (illegible), Public domain
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  Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London
  Photo: Gt-man, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
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  A Sinclair C5 electric tricycle
  Photo: Grant Mitchell, CC BY 2.0
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  A marble portrait of Julius Caesar
  Photo: Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España, Public domain
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  Dawn on the south rim of the Grand Canyon
  Photo: Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Amelia Earhart standing under the nose of her Lockheed Electra aeroplane in 1937
  Photo: Underwood & Underwood (active 1880 – c. 1950), Public domain
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  The astronomer William Herschel, painted by Lemuel Francis Abbott
  Photo: Lemuel Francis Abbott, Public domain
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  The Japanese Space Flyer Unit held by the Space Shuttle Endeavour's robot arm after it was caught
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  The twin towers of St Mary's Church, Reculver
  Photo: PhilipJSchadenfreude, CC BY-SA 3.0
• 
  A computer picture of the Deep Impact space probe releasing its impactor
  Photo: NASA/JPL, Public domain
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  Charles Perrault, painted by Charles Le Brun
  Photo: Charles Le Brun, Public domain
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  The National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C.
  Photo: APK, CC BY-SA 3.0
• 
  Henry Ford in a studio portrait
  Photo: Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department, Public domain
• 
  The Greek flag flying on the Acropolis of Athens
  Photo: Christos Loufopoulos, CC BY 2.0
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  A promotional photo of Led Zeppelin from 1971: John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and Robert Plant
  Photo: Atlantic Records, Public domain
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  President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at the villa in Casablanca where the conference was held, January 1943
  Photo: Mason, H A (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain
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  A medieval picture of the coronation of King Henry III
  Photo: Anonymous, Public domain
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  The explorer Roald Amundsen in furs
  Photo: Anonymous, Public domain
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  Hugh Lofting at a book signing in 1935
  Photo: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0
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  The front of the British Museum in London
  Photo: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  James Naismith with a ball and a basket
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  An artist's impression of Europe's SMART-1 spacecraft near the Moon
  Photo: European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
• 
  The Darnley Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
  Photo: Unidentified painter, Public domain
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  The title page of the first edition of Don Quixote, printed in Madrid in 1605
  Photo: Juan de la Cuesta, Public domain
• 
  Srinivasa Ramanujan's passport photograph from 1913
  Photo: Unknown author, CC BY 4.0
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  Eric Liddell running at Stamford Bridge, London, in July 1924
  Photo: unknown (Sports event handout), Public domain
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  A marble bust of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, in the Capitoline Museums in Rome
  Photo: Rosemania, CC BY 2.0
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  Captain Cook's ships Resolution and Adventure in Matavai Bay, Tahiti, painted by William Hodges
  Photo: William Hodges, Public domain
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  Captain Robert Falcon Scott in his naval uniform
  Photo: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain
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  The Russian writer Anton Chekhov
  Photo: V. Chekhovskii, Moscow, Public domain
• 
  A waterfall in El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico
  Photo: Jami430, CC BY-SA 4.0
• 
  The Hawaiian Islands seen from space in a NASA satellite photo
  Photo: Jacques Descloitres, Public domain
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  King Henry VII, the earliest painting in the National Portrait Gallery's collection
  Photo: anonymous, Public domain
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  A map of the German Empire, 1871 to 1918
  Photo: Deutsches_Reich1.png: kgberger derivative work: Wiggy! (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The author and illustrator Raymond Briggs
  Photo: Rob Croes for Anefo, CC0
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  A half-size model of Japan's SLIM Moon lander at Sagamihara City Museum
  Photo: Hms1103, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  The Bristow Super Puma helicopter G-TIGK at Aberdeen in 1986
  Photo: Chennell Productions, CC BY-SA 2.0
• 
  James Watt, the Scottish inventor and engineer, painted by Carl Frederik von Breda
  Photo: Carl Frederik von Breda, Public domain
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  Thomas Alva Edison, photographed by Bachrach Studios
  Photo: Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke, Public domain
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  Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts, with his family by his side
  Photo: Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force, Public domain
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  A drawing of a stained glass window in Chartres Cathedral showing Simon de Montfort
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  An engraving of the First Fleet arriving at Botany Bay in January 1788
  Photo: Original drawing by R. Cleveley, engraving by T. Medland, Public domain
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  Johann Sebastian Bach, painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann
  Photo: Elias Gottlob Haussmann, Public domain
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  British Airways Concorde G-BOAC
  Photo: Eduard Marmet, CC BY-SA 3.0
• 
  A DeLorean car with its doors open
  Photo: Kevin Abato, www.grenexmedia.com, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Emley Moor transmitting tower in spring 2006
  Photo: Alan Zomerfeld, CC BY-SA 2.5
• 
  NASA's Mars Exploration Rover-2, later called Spirit, being tested at Kennedy Space Center
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
• 
  King Edward VII, photographed by W. & D. Downey
  Photo: W. & D. Downey, Public domain
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  Ramsay MacDonald, photographed by Walter Stoneman
  Photo: Walter Stoneman, Public domain
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  Francis Bacon, painted by Paul van Somer
  Photo: Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain
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  King James II, painted by the school of Peter Lely
  Photo: School of Peter Lely, Public domain
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  An artist's impression of Pioneer 10 on its way to interstellar space, by Don Davis for NASA
  Photo: NASA/Don Davis, Public domain
• 
  A screenshot of the NCSA Mosaic web browser
  Photo: Charles Severance, CC0
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  A map of the Ming Empire in 1415, shown in yellow
  Photo: Albert Herrmann & Georg Westermann, Public domain
• 
  The Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes
  Photo: Cnyborg, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  NASA's picture of the design used for the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft
  Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Public domain
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  General Robert Baden-Powell
  Photo: James Russell & Sons, Public domain
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  John Vanbrugh, painted by Godfrey Kneller
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  An artist's picture of a NASA Mars Exploration Rover on Mars
  Photo: NASA/JPL/Cornell University, Maas Digital LLC, Public domain
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  The poster for the 1924 Winter Olympic Games at Chamonix, by Auguste Matisse
  Photo: Auguste Matisse, Public domain
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  Anne Boleyn, in a painting at Hever Castle made about 1583
  Photo: English school, Public domain
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  King Edward III wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter, from a manuscript made around 1430 to 1440
  Photo: William Bruges, Public domain
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  Glacier Gorge seen from Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park
  Photo: Daniel Mayer (Mav), CC BY-SA 3.0
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  A Baird television receiver for home use, pictured in 1928
  Photo: Baird Television, Public domain
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  Captain Arthur Phillip, painted by Francis Wheatley in 1786
  Photo: Francis Wheatley, Public domain
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  The Preamble to the Constitution of India, decorated by Beohar Rammanohar Sinha
  Photo: Illumination/ornamentation by Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, calligraphy by Prem Behari Narain Raizada, Public domain
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  An incandescent light bulb of the type developed by Thomas Edison in 1879, at the Electropolis museum in Mulhouse, France
  Photo: Arnaud 25, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Lewis Carroll in a photograph he took of himself
  Photo: Lewis Carroll, Public domain
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  A marble bust of the Roman emperor Trajan in the Glyptothek museum in Munich
  Photo: Unknown artistUnknown artist, Public domain
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  The Russian explorer Faddey Bellingshausen
  Photo: unidentified artist, Public domain
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  Jane Austen, sketched by her sister Cassandra Austen
  Photo: Cassandra Austen, Public domain
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  Horace Walpole, painted by Joshua Reynolds
  Photo: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain
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  Women of the Political Equality League presenting a petition for women's right to vote, Winnipeg, December 1915
  Photo: Archives of Manitoba, Still Images Section, Public domain
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  The Benz Patent-Motorwagen, Carl Benz's first motor car
  Photo: DaimlerChrysler AG, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  A Victoria Cross medal
  Photo: Turner_VC_f&b.JPG: The original uploader was Rcdarchive at English Wikipedia. derivative work: EyeSerene (talk), Public domain
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  Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of the Hawaiian kingdom
  Photo: James J. Williams / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  Edgar Allan Poe in a daguerreotype probably taken in June 1849
  Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  3 Savile Row in London, on whose roof the Beatles played their rooftop concert
  Photo: Misterweiss at English Wikipedia, Public domain
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  The Anglo-Japanese Alliance agreement of 30 January 1902
  Photo: World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The ironclad warship USS Monitor at sea
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  A map showing the Trinity Peninsula at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula
  Photo: Edited by Apcbg, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The launch of Mercury-Redstone 2 with Ham the chimpanzee on board
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard on the surface of the Moon
  Photo: Edgar D. Mitchell / NASA, Public domain
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  The Holy Crown of Hungary
  Photo: granada_turnier, CC BY 2.0
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  A model of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft at the Air and Space Museum at Le Bourget, France
  Photo: Pline, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Volumes of the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
  Photo: Dan (mrpolyonymous on Flickr), CC BY 2.0
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  The Shard in London at sunset
  Photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A Saint Brigid's cross made from rushes from County Down
  Photo: Culnacreann, CC BY 3.0
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  Abraham Lincoln, photographed by Alexander Gardner on 8 November 1863
  Photo: Alexander Gardner, Public domain
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  The statue of Alexander Selkirk at the site of his house in Lower Largo, Fife
  Photo: SylviaStanley, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 1992
  Photo: Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org), CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Inverlochy Castle, painted by Horatio McCulloch
  Photo: Horatio McCulloch (1805–1867), Public domain
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  A medieval drawing of King Stephen at Lincoln, directing Baldwin FitzGilbert to speak to the army
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  The signing of the London Protocol, a fresco in the Greek Parliament by Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler
  Photo: Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler, Public domain
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  The statue of Bartolomeu Dias at South Africa House in London
  Photo: Bartolomeu_Dias,_South_Africa_House.JPG: RedCoat (en:User:RedCoat10) derivative work: Biser Todorov (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Gideon Mantell, the doctor and fossil hunter
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Yalta in February 1945
  Photo: US government photographer, Public domain
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  An engineering mock-up of a Lunar Orbiter space probe at the Smithsonian
  Photo: Smithsonian, CC0
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  Rosa Parks in November 1956
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Emperor Taizu, the first emperor of the Song dynasty, in a painting from the Song dynasty
  Photo: Anonymous, Public domain
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  The Greater Hermitage on the Palace Embankment in St Petersburg
  Photo: GAlexandrova, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Charlie Chaplin, photographed by the Strauss-Peyton Studio
  Photo: Strauss-Peyton Studio, Public domain
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  Sir Robert Peel, painted by Henry William Pickersgill
  Photo: Henry William Pickersgill, Public domain
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  The time-ball on the Octagon Room at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
  Photo: R Sones, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off on its first flight in February 2018
  Photo: SpaceX, CC0
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  Queen Elizabeth II in her official portrait for her 1959 tour
  Photo: Donald McKague, Public domain
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  The Waitangi Sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi, signed by the British Crown and Māori chiefs in 1840
  Photo: William Hobson, James Freeman, and James Busby (English version); Henry Williams and Edward Williams (Māori translation), Public domain
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  Sir Stamford Raffles, painted by George Francis Joseph
  Photo: George Francis Joseph, Public domain
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  The Beatles wave to fans after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in February 1964
  Photo: United Press International, photographer unknown, Public domain
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  Caernarfon Castle in Wales
  Photo: AJ Marshall, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Charles Dickens, photographed by Jeremiah Gurney
  Photo: Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain
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  Neptune photographed by NASA's Voyager 2 probe in 1989
  Photo: NASA / Voyager 2 / PDS / OPUS / Ardenau4, CC0
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  The Skylab space station photographed by the Skylab 4 crew as they flew around it for the last time
  Photo: NASA (Crew of Skylab 4), Public domain
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  Jules Verne, photographed by Étienne Carjat in 1884
  Photo: Étienne Carjat / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  Dmitri Mendeleev, who created the first periodic table
  Photo: Original: Unknown authorUnknown author Upload: Germansociety2014, Public domain
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  St. Moritz seen from its frozen lake in winter
  Photo: Etiaetia1020, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Halley's Comet photographed on 8 March 1986 from Easter Island
  Photo: NASA/W. Liller, Public domain
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  The opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics
  Photo: Mike Pence, Public domain
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  A poster of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
  Photo: Unknown author, CC0
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  A drawing of the 'Devil's Footprints' printed in English newspapers in 1855
  Photo: English Papers 1855, Public domain
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  The Marriage of Queen Victoria, 10 February 1840, painted by George Hayter
  Photo: George Hayter, Public domain
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  The battleship HMS Dreadnought at sea, around 1906 to 1907
  Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  A leopard on a cliff at Ein Gedi in the Judean Desert, 1985
  Photo: יוסי אוד, CC BY 2.5
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  An IBM computer like Deep Blue, the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion
  Photo: James the photographer, CC BY 2.0
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  Space Shuttle Discovery seen from the International Space Station in 2011
  Photo: NASA, Public domain
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  Nelson Mandela in Washington, D.C. in 1994
  Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Sir Francis Drake, painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger in 1591
  Photo: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Public domain
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  Henry Fox Talbot in a daguerreotype portrait by Antoine Claudet, about 1844
  Photo: Antoine Claudet, Public domain
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  Charles Darwin, photographed by Maull and Fox, probably in 1854
  Photo: Charles_Darwin_seated.jpg: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907) (Maull & Fox) derivative work: Beao, Public domain
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  NASA's picture of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft
  Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Public domain
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  Vasco da Gama in an anonymous portrait from around 1525
  Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0
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  George Gershwin, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
  Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
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  Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President's House, in New Delhi
  Photo: Scott Dexter from Brooklyn, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  A European Vega rocket ready on its launch pad
  Photo: ESA_events, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  King William III, painted by Godfrey Kneller
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  The children's author Eleanor Farjeon
  Photo: Farjeon, Public domain
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  Alexander Graham Bell's 'big box' telephone of 1876, one of the first telephones you could buy
  Photo: Daderot, CC0
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  Oscar Wilde, photographed by Napoleon Sarony
  Photo: Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
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  Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in Bloomsbury, London
  Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Princess Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen
  Photo: Unidentified painter, Public domain
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  A pack of 1971 decimal coins with a Decimal Day leaflet
  Photo: Mandtplatt, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Two pieces of the ENIAC computer on display at the University of Pennsylvania
  Photo: The original uploader was TexasDex at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  A woodcut of a ship from the 1494 Basel edition of Columbus's letter announcing his voyage
  Photo: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, Public domain
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  King George VI
  Photo: Matson Photo Service, Public domain
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  Howard Carter (kneeling), an Egyptian workman and Arthur Callender at the doors of the burial shrines in Tutankhamun's tomb, photographed by Harry Burton
  Photo: Harry Burton, Public domain
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  Carsten Borchgrevink using a theodolite on the ice in Antarctica, with the expedition ship Southern Cross, 1899
  Photo: William Colbeck [Attributed], Public domain
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  Spencer Compton, painted by Godfrey Kneller
  Photo: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain
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  The Australian Olympic runner Cathy Freeman
  Photo: Jason Pini/AusAID, CC BY 2.0
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  Mount Everest seen from Gokyo Ri in Nepal
  Photo: Rdevany, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini
  Photo: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress, Public domain
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  Rebecca Adlington at the 2012 Olympic parade
  Photo: Richard Gillin from St Albans, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  The chess champion Garry Kasparov
  Photo: Fryta 73 from Strzegom, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  NASA's Perseverance rover takes a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, April 2021
  Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, Public domain
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  The cover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, with art by E. W. Kemble
  Photo: E. W. Kemble, Public domain
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  Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto, with his homemade 9-inch telescope
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  Queen Mary I, painted by Antonis Mor
  Photo: Antonis Mor, Public domain
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  Williams Point on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, the first land found south of 60 degrees south, on 19 February 1819
  Photo: Apcbg, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  NASA's picture of the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft
  Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Public domain
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  King William IV, painted by Martin Archer Shee in 1833
  Photo: Martin Archer Shee, Public domain
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  Nicolaus Copernicus, a portrait from the Town Hall in Toruń
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  An 1824 engraving by Mary Morland of the lower jaw of Megalosaurus
  Photo: Mary Morland (later Buckland; 1797–1857), Public domain
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  The entrance front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
  Photo: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  The composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, photographed by Émile Reutlinger
  Photo: Émile Reutlinger, Public domain
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  Queen Margaret of Scotland, daughter of King Christian I of Denmark, painted by Hugo van der Goes
  Photo: Hugo van der Goes, Public domain
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  A replica of Richard Trevithick's Penydarren locomotive at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
  Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A steel Peace Symbol sculpture by Robert Engman at the University of Pennsylvania, installed in 1967
  Photo: Smallbones, CC0
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  The Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a monument to the Bengali Language Movement of 1952
  Photo: Mostaque Ahammed, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  Dolly the sheep on display at the National Museum of Scotland
  Photo: Sgerbic, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A cherry-throated tanager at Reserva Kaetes, Espírito Santo, Brazil
  Photo: Sue Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  French troops surrendering to British forces at Goodwick Sands after the invasion of Fishguard
  Photo: Baker, James, 18th. cent Bluck, J., fl. 1791-1819, Public domain
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  Olave Baden-Powell in February 1916
  Photo: Carl Vandyk, Public domain
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  The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
  Photo: Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  The Lenox copy of the Gutenberg Bible at the New York Public Library
  Photo: NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng), CC BY-SA 2.0
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  The area around Supernova 1987A, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope
  Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain
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  Samuel Pepys, painted by John Hayls in 1666
  Photo: John Hayls, Public domain
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  Nancy Astor, the first woman MP to take her seat in Parliament
  Photo: Bassano Ltd, Public domain
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  A Penny Red stamp
  Photo: The original uploader was Hephaestos at English Wikipedia, Public domain
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  Joseph Banks, painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1773
  Photo: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain
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  Claudio Monteverdi, painted by Bernardo Strozzi around 1630
  Photo: Bernardo Strozzi, Public domain
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  An Anderson shelter at the Blitz and Pieces museum
  Photo: Jack1956, CC0
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  A marble head of Emperor Hadrian from about 130 AD, in a museum in Munich
  Photo: Djehouty, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  Hiram R. Revels, photographed by Mathew Brady or Levin Handy
  Photo: Mathew Brady or Levin Handy, Public domain
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  George Harrison in a promotional portrait from 1968
  Photo: John Kelly, Public domain
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  The launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  The Palace Theatre in London
  Photo: Matt May uploaded and derivative work: MrPanyGoff, CC BY 2.0
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  The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, painted by Jacques-Louis David
  Photo: Jacques-Louis David, Public domain
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  Victor Hugo, photographed by Étienne Carjat in 1876
  Photo: Étienne Carjat, Public domain
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  Pisa Cathedral and the Leaning Tower of Pisa at sunrise
  Photo: MHoser, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  A Japanese New Year's card showing the Hinomaru flag, a sunset and traditional Japanese homes
  Photo: Unknown, cropped by me to remove watermarks, Public domain
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  Lord Byron, painted by Thomas Phillips in 1813
  Photo: Thomas Phillips, Public domain
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  Part of a giant bronze statue of Constantine the Great in the Capitoline Museums, Rome
  Photo: Apaleutos25, CC BY-SA 4.0
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  C. V. Raman, photographed for the Nobel Foundation
  Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
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  Liu Bang, first emperor of the Han dynasty, in a painting from the Ming period
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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  The National Covenant, believed to be the original from which copies were made, at Huntly House Museum, Edinburgh
  Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Gamma-ray burst GRB 970228 and its host galaxy, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope
  Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Public domain
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  Tokyo Skytree in 2014
  Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  A 1795 pamphlet printing the text of the Jay Treaty
  Photo: Public domain, Public domain
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  Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  Photo: Benny Gool, Public domain
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  A promotional photograph of the actor Hattie McDaniel from 1939
  Photo: Unknown author, Public domain