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![Gravestone for German Man in Latin](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7457.jpg?v=1599488103)
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Gravestone for German Man in Latin
This is a 6th century CE gravestone for a German man named Leo. The text is in Latin. (Translation of the text into English: "In this tomb rests in peace Leo of good memory. He lived for 52 years. He died the day before the Ides of October."...
![German Artillery, Siege of Tobruk](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/19167.png?v=1721847533)
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German Artillery, Siege of Tobruk
German artillery at the Siege of Tobruk (1941-2) in the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)
![German 88mm Anti-aircraft Gun](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18806.png?v=1712775680)
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German 88mm Anti-aircraft Gun
A 1943 photograph of an 88mm anti-aircraft gun used by Germany during the Second World War (1939-45). These guns were usually placed in batteries of six or eight guns.(German Federal Archives)
![Domesday Book](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/9476.jpg?v=1706489826)
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book was a comprehensive survey and record of all the landowners, property, tenants and serfs of medieval Norman England. It was compiled in 1086-7 under the orders of William the Conqueror (r. 1066-87). The record is unique in European...
![Utah Beach](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/19033.png?v=1717403676)
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Utah Beach
Utah Beach was the westernmost of the five beaches attacked in the D-Day Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 and the one taken with the fewest casualties. Paratroopers were also dropped behind Utah, and despite being widely dispersed and suffering...
![Battleship Bismarck](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18618.png?v=1718906764)
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Battleship Bismarck
The Bismarck was a German battleship, the largest and most powerful capital ship in the Kriegsmarine. For all its weaponry and armour, the ship was involved in only one major operation which, after the sinking of the British battlecruiser...
![Shimabara Rebellion](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17611.jpg?v=1692127330)
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Shimabara Rebellion
The Shimabara Rebellion was a peasant uprising that occurred from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638 in Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Economic desperation, famine, and religious persecution led the peasants of the Shimabara peninsular...
![Ten Protestant Reformation Facts You Need to Know](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14847.jpg?v=1709243469)
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Ten Protestant Reformation Facts You Need to Know
The Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) was one of the most significant cultural, political, and religious events in the history of Europe and helped shape the modern world. It was a complex event spanning over 100 years, which radically changed...
![Serf](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/9559.jpg?v=1718015467)
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Serf
Medieval serfs (aka villeins) were unfree labourers who worked the land of a landowner (or tenant) in return for physical and legal protection and the right to work a separate piece of land for their own basic needs. Serfs made up 75% of...
![Martin Luther](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/10937.jpg?v=1712889243)
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther (l. 1483-1546) was a German priest, monk, and theologian who became the central figure of the religious and cultural movement known as the Protestant Reformation. Even though earlier reformers had expressed Luther's views, his...