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Portrait of Milton Friedman, photograph by Bachrach Studios, New York, 1 January 1986. Milton Friedman was an American economist and academic who was a professor at the University of Chicago and won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...

An illustrated aerial view of the Suez Canal in Egypt, built between 1859 and 1869. From an 1865 edition of Harper's Weekly magazine.

A 1962 photograph of Egyptian leader Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70), in power from 1954 until his death in 1970.

A 1942 photograph of Anthony Eden, then Foreign Secretary. Eden later served as prime minister (1955-7). Imperial War Museums

A photograph of the Suez Canal Company Building, Port Said, Egypt. Taken during the First World War (1914-18) Imperial War Museums

A photograph showing the British battleship HMS Howe and a local felucca on the Suez Canal, Egypt. Taken during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Museums

A 1956 photograph showing smoke rising from oil tanks near the Suez Canal following the Anglo-French attack on Port Said, 5 November 1956. Imperial War Museums

The rise of the Huns in the 5th century CE reshaped the political landscape of Late Antiquity, culminating under Attila the Hun (reign 434-453 CE). Emerging from the Eurasian steppe, the Huns did not form a centralized territorial state in...

The Median hegemony (late 7th-early 6th century BCE) emerged in the aftermath of the Bronze Age Collapse (c. 1200-1150 BCE) and, more directly, the disintegration of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (to 612/609 BCE). Under rulers such as Cyaxares...

The Mexica (commonly referred to as the Aztecs) emerged as a dominant power in central Mexico during the Late Postclassic period, culminating in the formation of the Triple Alliance (1427/28 CE) between Tenochtitlán, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan...