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Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding (1882-1970), Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain of 1940.

The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident that occurred in 1797-98, involving diplomats from the United States and Revolutionary France. Amidst rising tensions between the two nations, President John Adams sent envoys to Paris to negotiate...

The Schlieffen Plan was Germany's strategic plan for a two-front war against France and Russia. Conceived in 1905 by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the German General Staff, it aimed to achieve a...

The Battle of the Frontiers of WWI (1914-18), fought between 14 and 25 August, involved a flurry of encounters between German and French, Belgian, and British armies as both sides attempted...

Soviet propaganda poster for Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plan, illustration by Yakov Guminer, 1931. The poster urges workers that if they add their enthusiasm then the plan can be achieved in just four...

Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plans (1928-50) were a series of state-led initiatives which aimed to grow the economy of the USSR, rapidly industrialise what was still a largely agricultural...

The site of Stonehenge as of 2004. The plan omits the trilithon lintels for clarity. Holes that no longer, or never, contained stones are shown as open circles and stones visible today are shown coloured, grey for sarsen and...

Ground plan of Almourol Castle, photograph by Filipa Oliveira, Almourol, Portugal, May 2026. Part of an interpretive panel on the islet of Almourol, the ground plan highlights the main south-facing entrance leading...

A drawing illustrating the floor plan of the Parthenon (447-438 BCE). The number of Doric columns in the outer colonnade (8x17) was unusual for a Greek temple (6x13). The cella contained the 12m high cult statue of Athena...

A plan of the acropolis of Athens. Occupied from Mycenaean times, the monuments visible today largely date from the 5th century BCE.