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Churchill & Roosevelt, Casablanca, 1943
A photograph of the president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) talking ot the press at the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War...
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Map of the World of Homer’s Iliad, c. 1200 BCE - The Aegean Bronze Age and the Epic World Around Troy
The key places, peoples, and commanders associated with Homer’s Iliad form a poetic geography of the Late Bronze Age Aegean and western Anatolia. Although the epic was probably composed in the 8th century BCE, it is set in the legendary final...
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Map of the Rise & Fall of Carthaginian Power, c. 650–146 BCE
Carthage (traditionally founded c. 814/813 BCE; destroyed 146 BCE) emerged from the wider Phoenician colonial world to become the leading Punic power in the western Mediterranean. From roughly the 7th century BCE, its influence expanded through...
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De Gaulle & Giraud Shake Hands at Casablanca, 1943
A photograph taken at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943 showing General Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), recognised by the Allies as the leader of all French opposing the Germans, and his great rival General Henri Giraud (1879-1949...
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Roosevelt's Villa, Casablanca
The villa in Casablanca, Morocco where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) stayed during the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War (1939-45).
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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The Kish Tablet - And the Earliest Evidence of Writing
The Kish Tablet, illustration by José-Manuel Benito, July 2006. The Kish Tablet, from Tell al-Uhaymir, Iraq, is among the oldest known inscriptions using proto-cuneiform symbols. Before this, writing was limited to numerical marks carved...
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Roosevelt & Churchill, Casablanca Conference
A photograph of the president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) at the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial...
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Tehran Conference Dinner, 1943
A photograph of the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), and leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), having dinner at the Tehran Conference of November-December...
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Soviet Embassy, Tehran
A photograph of the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran. This was the location of the Tehran Conference in late 1943 when the leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), and...
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Stalin, Roosevelt & Churchill, Tehran 1943
A photograph of leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), and British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) at the Tehran Conference of November-December 1943. The...
