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Cologne (Köln) was the first German city to experience a "1,000-bomber raid" by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War (1939-45). The attack took place on the night of 30 May 1942 and was planned as a demonstration of the destruction...

The bombing of Berlin, aka the Berlin Air Offensive or Battle of Berlin (Air), was a sustained bombing campaign on the German capital by the British Royal Air Force and United States Air Force from November 1943 until March 1944. The objective...

The Renaissance period witnessed a great renewed interest in the art of antiquity. There was an appreciation of the technical skill required to produce such objects as a Roman marble figure of Venus and an admiration for the form and beauty...

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Bockscar' with a replica of the atomic bomb 'Fat Boy' it dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 during the Second Wolrd War (1939-45). (National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton...

Shimabara Castle in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan was built in 1624. The castle was demolished in 1874, but was restored in the late 20th Century.

The plight of 16-year-old Jerome Amakusa, the supposed leader of the rebellion, and the rebels who accompanied him are at once instantly recognisable to contemporary readers, and yet they were alien, by design, to the populace of Edo Period...