Milestones

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A traditional glass of Weissbier
Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain
Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death
ELAS Guerrillas, 1943
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans
400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
Dmitri Karakozov before his execution, graphite drawing by Ilya Repin in 1866
Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later
artwork entitled Can You Pass the Acid Test
The Acid Tests
Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.
Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist
The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.
Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing
Bombing Hiroshima
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
a can of Spaghetti-Os
Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.
On the Armenian Genocide
This stamp features the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."
The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Mother of Rock and Roll
A Sherman tank enters Fort Santiago
The Battle for Manila
The signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede, as represented in a nineteenth-century engraving
The Magna Carta and Its Legacy
The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989
What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan
Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814
The War We Refuse to Remember
"Mauerspecht" [Wall Pecker] 1989
“Remember, Remember the 9th of November”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Hitler with politicians
The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II
Egyptian Leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser
Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later
The Prima Porta Statue shows a powerful and youthful Augustus making an address
Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus