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March to Valley Forge
March to Valley Forge, a depiction of General George Washington leading the Continental Army to Valley Forge in December 1777. Oil on canvas by William Brooke Thomas Trego, 1883. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

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Depictions of India in Ancient Literature
Herodotus (484 BCE – c. 425 BCE) has been called the Father of History since he was the first historian known to collect his materials in detail, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative...

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Rock Drawings of Valcamonica
The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90 km in the Italian provinces of Brescia and Bergamo in Lombardy. The name...

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Valley of the Kings (Artist's Impression)
An artist's depiction of the Valley of the Kings, part of the Theban Necropolis, as it may have appeared during the New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1570- c.1069 BCE). From the game Old World.

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Lilies of the Valley Egg by Fabergé
The 1898 Lilies of the Valley Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg is made of gold and pink enamel with pearl, diamond, and ruby decoration...

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Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge
George Washington and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. Reproduction of a painting by John Ward Dunsmore, 1907.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

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Relief of Amun-Ra, Valley of the Kings
A relief depicting Amun-Ra, from the Tomb of Ramesses IX (r. 1129–1111 BCE) in the Valley of the Kings. Thebes, Egypt.

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Bailem Valley, Papua New Guinea
Aerial view of the Bailem Valley, Papua New Guinea, a site of ancient Neolithic settlements and explored for the first time by Western explorers in the 1930s. In 2008, the Kuk Early Agricultural Site was designated a UNESCO World Heritage...

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Baron Steuben Drilling Continental Soldiers at Valley Forge
Baron Friederich von Steuben drills Continental soldiers at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778. By Edwin Austin Abbey, sometime before 1911.

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Replica of a Soldier's Hut at Valley Forge
A modern replica of the log huts that the Continental soldiers at Valley Forge lived in; most huts housed twelve soldiers at a time. Photo by Wikipedia user Dr. Blazer, May 2018.