Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.
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On the first day of the uprising, protesters assembled around the fountain outside the Jeollanam-do Provincial Office, a site that would become central to the struggle against military oppression. Courtesy of the 5.18 Foundation.
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the back of Donald Trump standing in front of a U.S. flag and bright lights
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Zelensky and Trump
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Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated, 1980.
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Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.
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