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Government & Society in Ancient Rome
Roman Government society Consul Praetor Aedile Quaestor Censor Plebeians Patricians Equites Freedmen SPQR Tribal Assembly Centuriate Assembly The Senate The Tribune
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The Russian Provisional Government's Freedom Loan
Freedom Loan, poster by Boris Kustodiev, 1917. A Russian Revolution era poster promoting the Freedom (or Liberty) Loan, a proposal of the new Russian Provisional Government to control an unraveling economy amidst the war effort against the...
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Carthaginian Government
An artist's impression of what a scene from Carthaginian or Near Eastern government may have looked like.
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Formal Attire in Colonial America
A drawing of a couple in traditional Colonial American formal attire. The woman wears a richly decorated brocade dress with floral designs, while the man is dressed in a suit of uncut velvet and holds a tricorne hat. From Historic Dress in...
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French Colonial Troops, 1940
A photograph of captured French colonial troops from Africa during the Fall of France to Nazi Germany in June 1940 during the Second World War (1939-45).
Imperial War Musuems
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Colonial Blacksmith Shop, Mount Vernon
A blacksmith shop on the colonial American Mount Vernon estate.
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Colonial Troops, WWI
A 1917 photograph of four members of the 2nd Kashmir Rifles in East Africa. Colonial troops were used by all sides and in most theatres of the war.
Imperial War Museums, London.
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Colonial American Loom, Mount Vernon
A spinning room containing a loom, from the colonial American Mount Vernon Estate.
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Jameson Raid - The Failed British Coup in Transvaal
The Jameson Raid was an unofficial and failed attempt by the British to take over the Boer Republic of Transvaal in Southern Africa in December 1895. Masterminded by the millionaire imperialist Cecil Rhodes, the raid failed to gain support...
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German East Africa
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a colony of Imperial Germany from 1885 until 1918. The territory, much larger than Germany itself, covered what is today Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and part of Mozambique. As in many other European...