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President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island
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President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island

President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island, photograph by the US State Department, 15 October 1950. This is a photograph of US President Harry S. Truman (left) meeting with General Douglas...
Beacon Island
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Beacon Island

Beacon Island, situated within an archipelago of 122 islands at the northern tip of the Houtman Albrolhos, Australia. Survivors from the Batavia shipwreck were ferried to this island.
Gaspee Affair
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Gaspee Affair

The Gaspee Affair was an incident that occurred on 10 June 1772, when a group of American colonists from Rhode Island seized and burned the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee after it had run aground. The affair contributed to the worsening...
Samos
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Samos

Samos is a Greek island in the east Aegean, just off the coast of modern-day Turkey. It particularly flourished in the 6th century BCE and was famous in antiquity for its navy, wine, and important sanctuary to Hera. Samos was an active...
Battle of Long Island
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Battle of Long Island

Lord Stirling leads an attack against the British (in the background) to buy time for other American troops to retreat (as depicted in the foreground) at the Battle of Long Island (27 August 1776), which resulted in a defeat...
Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island
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Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island

The Delaware Regiment of the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War. Painting by Domenick D'Andrea, commissioned by the US National Guard Bureau, c. 2004.
Black Infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment
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Black Infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment

A cropped image of a Black infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783); the full watercolor shows American troops at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781...
Mo'ai Statues on Easter Island
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Mo'ai Statues on Easter Island

Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island. These moai were restored in the 1990s CE by a Japanese research team after a cyclone knocked them over in the 1960s CE.
1st Rhode Island Regimental Flag
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1st Rhode Island Regimental Flag

Regimental Flag of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, c. 1781.
Moai from Easter Island
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Moai from Easter Island

This Moai comes originally from Easter Island and dates from c. 13th-14th century CE. (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)
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