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12 Royal Princes Who Never Reached the Throne - From Germanicus to the Black Prince & Franz Ferdinand
Royal heirs and princes expected to succeed to a throne occupied an unusually precarious position: close enough to power to govern, command armies, or shape policy...
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Confederate Bombardment Prior to Pickett's Charge - Gettysburg, 3 July 1863
Battle of Gettysburg, print by L. Prang & Co. after Thure de Thulstrup, 1887. Depicted here is the Confederate bombardment of the Union Army, prior to Pickett's Charge at the Battle...
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Soviet Propaganda Poster for the Five-Year Plan
Soviet propaganda poster for Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plan, illustration by Yakov Guminer, 1931. The poster urges workers that if they add their enthusiasm then the plan can be achieved in just four...
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Soviet Collective Farm, Armenia
A former Soviet collective farm (kolkhoz) in Armenia, photograph by Moreau.henri, 19 November 2010. Private farms were first collectivised into state-owned enterprises during Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plans through...
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Magnitogorsk Steelworks, 1930s
A photograph of the giant Soviet iron and steelworks city of Magnitogorsk, Russia, built as part of Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plans project, c. 1930s.
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Soviet Propaganda Poster Against Kulaks
A Soviet propaganda poster demonizing kulaks, illustration by Viktor Deni, 1919. In this poster, kulaks, better-off landowning peasants, are accused of hoarding bread. The caption reads: "Bread-Spider. Bloodsucking...
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Soviet Gulag, Estonia
Photograph of a Soviet Gulag in Estonia, c. 1940s-50s.
Gulags were used to detain those considered enemies of the state where they were used as forced labour.
Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum.
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Stalin & Two Celebrated Collective Farmers
Joseph Stalin and two celebrated collective farmers, photograph by Ivan Shagin, 18 April 1936. Leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, stands between the farmers Praskovya Angelina (left) and Maria Demchenko (right...
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Map of the Latin Empire - A Crusader State in Constantinople - The Fourth Crusade and the Fragmentation of Byzantium
The Latin Empire (Imperium Romaniae, 1204–1261) emerged after the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) captured and sacked Constantinople in April 1204, replacing...
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Battleflag of the Army of Northern Virginia
The battleflag of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Designed by William Porcher Miles.
