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The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the National Army of the Chinese Nationalist Party, the most famous began in the Jiangxi (Jiangxi) province in October 1934 and ended in the Shaanxi province in October 1935. Stock Photo
Ren Bishi when he moved to northern Shaanxi. In 1937. Ren Bishi was a military and political leader in the early Chinese Communist Party. In the early 1930s, Stock Photo
The Fortress was erected in Gwangju in 1626 on the site of an ancient Silla fortress (672 AD). When the Manchus invaded Korea, King Injo was besieged here. The scenic beauty lasts all the year round. From the time of Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910) Stock Photo
Behind the Bando stands Joseon Hotel as the finest and oldest in the country. Stock Photo
Yin Jingyi, a member of the Communist Youth League and one of the principals of the Tongji University Student Union, was shouting 'overthrow imperialism' when being shot. Stock Photo
gilt bronze, Buddhist Sculpture from the period of Three Kingdoms of Korea: Buddha (57 BCE - 668) Stock Photo
wine pot, Celadon glaze; modelled and incised decoration. From the time of Koryo (Goreyo) (Goreyo) dynasty (918 - 1392) Stock Photo
Oguk fortress is located at the outskirt of Hoe-ryeong, in Hamgyeong Bukdo, a region in the North-East of North Korea. It is one of the six fortresses of the Jurchens (Nuzhen in Chinese, ?? in Korean), who lived in North East China until the 17th century, later known as Manchuria. The fortresses date back to period when they occupied this northern area of Korea Stock Photo
The famous sculptor that made An Jung-geun's statue (1959), General MacArthur's statue (1957), King Sejong's statue (1968). He studied sculpture in Japan during the Japanese colonial period and came back to Korea; he used to be a teacher at universities like Ewhwa Women's university. Stock Photo
Ranavalona III (1861 - 1917) last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883 to February 28, 1897 in a reign marked by ultimately futile efforts to resist the colonial designs of the government of France. Ranavalona tried to stave off colonization by strengthening trade and diplomatic relations with foreign powers throughout her reign. Stock Photo
Moscow's Labour Day and its warlike parades. Marching cadets of the Russian Infantry Officer School saluting on the May Day parade in Moscow. Stock Photo
Isfandiyar Khan, the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva) in uniform, sitting on a chair, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944). c1910-1915. Stock Photo
Roman Fresco depicting Aeneas wounded as he gazes at his mother Aphrodite, his son Ascanius is crying; a doctor treats his wounds, by an unknown artist, 45-79, 1st Century A.D. Stock Photo
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. whith his father Henry Morgenthau. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (May 11, 1891 - February 6, 1967) was the United States Secretary of the Treasury during most of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal. After 1937, while still in charge of the Treasury, he played the central role in financing United States participation in World War II. Henry Morgenthau (April 26, 1856 - November 25, 1946) was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during Wor Stock Photo
Field Marshal Montgomery and Winston Churchill at the Alamein Reunion. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (17 November 1887 - 24 March 1976), nicknamed 'Monty' and 'The Spartan General', was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, a Stock Photo
Transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image of Marburg virus virions. Stock Photo
Mike Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician; vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013, representing the 2nd district of Indiana from 2001 to 2003 and the 6th district of Indiana from 2003 to 2013. Stock Photo
New Zealand Prime Minister-elect Keith Holyoake leaving Parliament Buildings with the Clerk of the Executive Council, on the way to Government House. Photographed on 12 December 1960 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Stock Photo
Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal. Stock Photo
Norway's gesture of goodwill to London: The giant Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, London. Stock Photo
Alexander Haig (1924 - 2010) was the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and the White House chief of staff under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He retired as a general from the United States Army, having been Supreme Allied Commander Europe as the vice chief of staff of the Army. In 1973, he became the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army's history. Stock Photo
British Army troops doing physical training on a troopship during World War II. Stock Photo
Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. (1907 - 1957) Filipino statesman who served as the seventh president of the Philippines, from December 30, 1953, until his death in an aircraft disaster on March 17, 1957. An automobile mechanic by profession, Magsaysay was appointed military governor of Zambales after his outstanding service as a guerrilla leader during the Pacific War. He then served two terms as Liberal Party congressman for Zambales's at-large district before being appointed Secretary of National Defense by President Elpidio Quirino. He was elected president under the banner of the Nacionalis Stock Photo
Hugh Thompson Rice Jr. (born August 4, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 7th congressional district. A Republican, Rice was first elected in 2012 and was a member of the freshman class chosen to sit at the House Republican leadership table. Stock Photo
Major General Gilbert Savil Szlumper, CBE, TD (18 April 1884 - 19 July 1969) was a British railwayman, and the penultimate general manager of the Southern Railway. He was director-general of transportation and movements, War Office (1939-1940); railway control officer, Ministry of Transport (1940-1941) and director-general of supply services, Ministry of Supply (1942-1945). Stock Photo
Yu Gwan-sun (1902 - 1920) Korean independence activist organizer in what would come to be known as the March First Independence Movement against Imperial Japanese colonial rule of Korea in South Chungcheong. The movement was a peaceful demonstration by the Korean people against Japanese rule. Ryu became one of the most famous figures in this movement and later a symbol of Korea's fight for independence. Stock Photo
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, KG, PC, FRS (17 December 1619 - 29 November 1682) was a German-English army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalry commander during the English Civil War. Stock Photo
Sir Sidney Holland (1893 - 1961) New Zealand politician who served as the 25th prime minister of New Zealand from 13 December 1949 to 20 September 1957. He was instrumental in the creation and consolidation of the New Zealand National Party, which was to dominate New Zealand politics for much of the second half of the 20th century. Stock Photo
Sisavang Vatthana (1907 - 1978) last king of the Kingdom of Laos and the 6th Prime Minister of Laos serving from 29 October to 21 November 1951. He ruled from 1959 after his father's death until his forced abdication in 1975. His rule ended with the takeover by the Pathet Lao in 1975, after which he and his family were sent to a re-education camp by the new government. Stock Photo
Cromwell, Earl of Essex. Thomas Cromwell, (c. 1485 - 28 July 1540) was an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king. Cromwell was one of the strongest and most powerful proponents of the English Reformation. He helped to engineer an annulment of the king's marriage to Catherine of Aragon so that Henry could lawfully marry Anne Boleyn. During his rise to power, Cromwell made many enemies, including his former ally Anne Boleyn. He played a prominent role in her downfall. Stock Photo
Aga Khan is a title held by the Imam of the Nizari Isma?ili Shias. Since 1957, the holder of the title has been the 49th Imam, Prince Shah Karim al-Husseini, Aga Khan IV (b. 1936). All Aga Khans claim descent from Muhammad, last prophet of Islam. Stock Photo
Captives using special washrooms at Wulzburg German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Stock Photo
Mr. Kung Hsiang-hsi met with Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany in 1936. Kung Hsiang-hsi (1881 - 1967), often known as Dr. H. H. Kung, was a Chinese banker and politician in the early 20th century. He married Soong Ai-ling, the eldest of the three Soong sisters; the other two married President Sun Yat-sen and the latter President Chiang Kai-shek. Together with his brother-in-law, Soong Tse-ven, he was highly influential in determining the economic policies of the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government of the Republic of China in the 1930s and 1940s. Stock Photo
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (1925 - 2003) was a Ugandan military officer who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 and de facto military dictator. He is considered one of the most brutal despots in world history. Stock Photo
Philip Roth (1933 - 2018) American novelist and short story writer. He first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus; the collection so titled received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. He became one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral. Stock Photo
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (1916 - 2009) American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962-1981). During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as 'the most trusted man in America' after being so named in an opinion poll. Stock Photo
The Secret Weapon. A flying fortress conceived in 1803 but never built. Stock Photo
U Nu (1907 - 1995), known by the honorific name Thakin Nu, leading Burmese statesman and nationalist politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Burma under the provisions of the 1947 Constitution of the Union of Burma, from 4 January 1948 to 12 June 1956, again from 28 February 1957 to 28 October 1958, and finally from 4 April 1960 to 2 March 1962. Stock Photo
Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013) Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. Stock Photo
Napoleon marches into Spain. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821), was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. Stock Photo
A mummy being removed from a tomb in Egypt. Stock Photo
Johann Laub, at the local branch of a Nazi Storm Troopers meeting. The Sturmabteilung was the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Stock Photo
Mike Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician; vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013, representing the 2nd district of Indiana from 2001 to 2003 and the 6th district of Indiana from 2003 to 2013. Stock Photo
Threshing time on a Romanian farm with family and neighbours. Stock Photo
President Gerald Ford, General Secretary Lenoid Brezhnev, and Henry Kissinger speaking informally at the conclusion of the Vladivostok Summit on the tarmac at Vozdvizhenka Airport. Just moments after this photo was taken, President Ford informally concluded the Vladivostok Summit by giving his wolfskin coat to Secretary Brezhnev. 1974. Stock Photo
Tennis player Jean Nicoll demonstrates a smash. Photo sequence of the stroke of a smash in tennis. Stock Photo
Sherman tank in action during World War II. The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II. Stock Photo
Phillipines President Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos at the White House with US President Ronald Reagan in 1982. Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 - September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician and lawyer who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Imelda Romualdez Marcos (born July 2, 1929) is a Filipina politician and convicted criminal who was First Lady of the Philippines for 20 years. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member Stock Photo
Ranavalona III (1861 - 1917) last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883 to February 28, 1897 in a reign marked by ultimately futile efforts to resist the colonial designs of the government of France. Ranavalona tried to stave off colonization by strengthening trade and diplomatic relations with foreign powers throughout her reign. Stock Photo
Soldiers get some respite from heavy shelling near Vittoria, Sicily, during World War II. Stock Photo
The battle of Panipat and the death of Sultan Ibrahim, 1526. The First Battle of Panipat was fought between the invading forces of Babur and the Lodi Empire, which took place on 21 April 1526 in North India. It marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire. This was one of the earliest battles involving gunpowder firearms and field artillery. Stock Photo
George Ervin 'Sonny' Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is an American veterinarian, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as Governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011. Stock Photo
Paul Joseph Goebbels (1897 - 1 May 1945) German Nazi politician who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted acolytes, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Stock Photo
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. whith his father Henry Morgenthau. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (May 11, 1891 - February 6, 1967) was the United States Secretary of the Treasury during most of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal. After 1937, while still in charge of the Treasury, he played the central role in financing United States participation in World War II. Henry Morgenthau (April 26, 1856 - November 25, 1946) was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during Wor Stock Photo
Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 - April 23, 1990) was an American actress, child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl; she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times, and Chaplin's subsequent film The Great Dictator. Stock Photo
Rasoherina (1814 - 1 April 1868) (also Rasoherina-Manjaka), Queen of Madagascar from 1863 to 1868, succeeding her husband Radama II following his presumed assassination. Stock Photo
Christ crowning St. Ursula. Religious Bolognese work. Stock Photo
Nurses relaxing on a troopship during World War II. Stock Photo
Kurt Josef Waldheim (1918 - 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia, as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II, raised international controversy. Stock Photo
Former theatrical variety star Mick Clover in his tobacconists kiosk in the heart of Agencyland. Stock Photo
Irrigation canal (aryk) in the Murgab Estate, in Tsarist Russia, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), Tsarist era Russian photographer. Published between 1905 and 1915. Stock Photo
Thomas Riley Marshall (1854 - 1925) American politician who served as the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member of the Democratic Party. Stock Photo
Newly appointed chief of the Indonesian cyber bureau Djoko Setiadi along with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, VP Jusuf Kalla, and Megawati Soekarnoputri. Stock Photo
Elizabeth 'Elsie' Carlisle (28 January 1896 - 5 September 1977) was a popular English female singer both before and during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, nicknamed 'Radio Sweetheart Number One. Photograph of Elsie Carlisle in London's Tin Pan Alley. Stock Photo
When last we were threatened with invasion: A Frenchman's idea for invading Britain in the Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of French domination over most of continental Europe. The wars stemmed from the unresolved disputes associated with the French Revolution and its resultant conflict. Stock Photo
Princess Olga's birthday. Prince Paul, Queen Marie and Princess Olga. Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (11 June 1903 - 16 October 1997) was a Greek princess who became princess of Yugoslavia as the wife of Prince Paul, Regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, also known as Paul Karadordevic (27 April 1893 - 14 September 1976), was prince regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the minority of King Peter II. Marie of Romania (born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 - 18 July 1938) was the last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdina Stock Photo
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 - 2004) American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. Stock Photo
Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration. Stock Photo
Kato Kiyomasa (1562 - 1611) Japanese daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was Higo-no-kami. His child name was Yashamaru, and first name was Toranosuke. He was one of Hideyoshi's Seven Spears of Shizugatake. Stock Photo
Juan Luis Vives March (6 March 1493 - 6 May 1540) was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the Southern Netherlands. His beliefs on the soul, insight into early medical practice, and perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the 'father' of modern psychology. He taught at Louvain, Oxford and Paris. Stock Photo
Tennis player Jean Nicoll demonstrates a serve. Photo sequence of the stroke of a serve in tennis. Stock Photo
British Army troops getting used to wearing topees as part of their kit on a troopship during World War II. Stock Photo
General Coulson, French Minister of War, General Gamelin's closest collaborator and personal assistant to Marshal Petain at close of World War II. Stock Photo
Cyril Newall, Chief of the Air Staff. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Cyril Louis Norton Newall, 1st Baron Newall, GCB, OM, GCMG, CBE, AM (15 February 1886 - 30 November 1963) was a senior officer of the British Army and Royal Air Force. He commanded units of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force in the First World War, and served as Chief of the Air Staff during the first years of the Second World War. From 1941 to 1946 he was the Governor-General of New Zealand. Stock Photo
Park Geun-hye (born 2 February 1952) is a former South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until 2017, when she was impeached and a year later convicted on related corruption charges. Stock Photo
Gina Cheri Walker Haspel (born October 1, 1956) American intelligence officer who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2018 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the post on a permanent basis and was previously the deputy director under Mike Pompeo during the early days of Donald Trump's presidency. Stock Photo
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax KG PC PRS (16 April 1661 - 19 May 1715) was an English statesman and poet. He was the grandson of the 1st Earl of Manchester and was eventually ennobled himself, first as Baron Halifax in 1700 and later as Earl of Halifax in 1714. Stock Photo
Ilse Koch (1906 - 1967) Nazi war criminal who was an overseer at Nazi concentration camps run by her husband, commandant Karl-Otto Koch. Working at Buchenwald (1937-1941) and Majdanek (1941-1943), Koch became infamous for her sadistic, brutal treatment of prisoners. In 1947, she became one of the first prominent Nazis tried by the U.S. military. Stock Photo
Nazi Storm Trooper Johann Laub consults holiday literature helped by a Nazi official. The Sturmabteilung was the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Stock Photo
Lillian Florence Hellman (1905 - 1984) American playwright, author, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947-1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer questions by HUAC, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged Stock Photo
Vespa motor scooters in Rome, Italy, 1949. Stock Photo
Yves Bouthillier (26 February 1901 - 4 January 1977) was a French politician. He served as the French Minister of Finance from 1940 to 1942. Stock Photo
British Royal Air Force Gunner in training. World War II, 1943. Stock Photo
Mark Randall Meadows (born July 28, 1959) is an American politician who served as the 29th White House chief of staff from 2020 to 2021. He served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Meadows chaired the House Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019. He was considered one of President Donald Trump's closest allies. Stock Photo
Thomas Riley Marshall (1854 - 1925) American politician who served as the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member of the Democratic Party. Stock Photo
William Bauchop Wilson (1862 - 1934) was an American labor leader and progressive politician, who immigrated as a child with his family from Lanarkshire, Scotland. After having worked as a child and adult in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, he became active as a labor organizer. Wilson is best remembered for his service as the first Secretary of Labor (1913-21) in the United States, serving through the years of American participation in the Great War. Stock Photo
Newspaper advertisement for Bird's Custard. Bird's Custard is the brand name for the original powdered, egg-free imitation custard powder. The product is a powder, based on cornflour, which thickens to form a custard-like sauce when mixed with milk and heated. Stock Photo
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (May 11, 1891 - February 6, 1967) was the United States Secretary of the Treasury during most of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal. After 1937, while still in charge of the Treasury, he played the central role in financing United States participation in World War II. Stock Photo
Ricardo 'Richard' Leyva Munoz Ramirez (1960 - June 7, 2013), dubbed the Valley Intruder, as his attacks were first clustered in the San Gabriel Valley, and the Night Stalker, was an American serial killer, serial rapist, kidnapper, child abuser, and burglar, convicted in 1989. Stock Photo
Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 - August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actor who starred most notably in several movies during the 1950s, known for his dark hair and his smile. He also appeared in many musicals opposite such stars as Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Stock Photo
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris. Newspaper review photograph of Gordon Jackson, Hugh Griffith, Ducan Lamont and Noel Purcell during filming. Stock Photo
Cliff Richard in Summer Holiday, a 1963 British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film. Cliff Richard. Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Stock Photo
The Fifty Nine Nations assembly at the General Assembly Hall at Flushing Meadow, New York on Saturday, 29 November 1947. Audrey Vishinsky, Soviet Foreign Minister, who called for a Five-Power Act. Stock Photo
Concrete units being erected for new semi-detached concrete pre-fabricated houses. Prefabs (prefabricated homes) were a major part of the delivery plan to address the United Kingdom's post-Second World War housing shortage. They were envisaged by war-time prime minister Winston Churchill in March 1944, and legally outlined in the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944. Stock Photo
An early engraving of Asafoetida in Afghanistan. The white asafoetida is native to Afghanistan and was water-soluble whereas the red asafoetida, found in other countries, is oil soluble. While India did also sources from countries like Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, it was Afghanistan that is satiating India's appetite. Stock Photo
Persian pottery. Photograph of three pieces of pottery, two ewers and a bowl. Stock Photo
Fifty-nine Nations assembly at Flushing Meadow. New York, 1949. Dr Manuisky, the Ukrainian delegate. Stock Photo
Fitzhugh Lee (November 19, 1835 - April 28, 1905) was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, the 40th Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the Spanish-American War. Stock Photo
Newspaper review of the The Mind Benders, a 1963 British thriller film, photograph of Dirk Bogarde. Stock Photo
Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 - May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (March 24, 1909 - May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who travelled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural funeral homes. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the 'public enemy era' between 1931 and 1934. Stock Photo
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