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Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).

Top Ten Origins: World War II Films

Greek troops with a machine gun during the war

The Greco-Turkish War

A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I

Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals

book cover - Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads

A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.

Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies

"Gay Liberation" by George Segal

Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution

Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)

The Hamilton-Burr Duel

2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.

The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey

Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.

Fly Me to the Moon

Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century

Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth

One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.

At the Movies: Downton Abbey

Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.

The Rumble in the Jungle

Inside the National Veteran's Museum and Memorial - The NVMM's exhibits chronicle the stages of a veteran's experience.

The National Veterans Museum and Memorial

View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.

A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan

"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles

The Versailles Treaty Fight

Sobaek Mountain

A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea

Graffiti reading "Ireland a Nation, Irish and Free"

The Provisional Irish Republican Army

A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War

“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War

The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi

A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.

A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana

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