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The Battle of Gallipoli: Winston Churchill's Great Mistake

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A rainbow shines over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 24, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Independence Day Disaster: What If There Never Was a United States of America?

As 95-by-50-foot American flag is unfurled on the side of an apartment complex, a replica of the "The Great Flag" that was spun, woven, dyed, constructed and displayed on the same building by Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1914, in Manchester, New Hamp

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Incidents of the war. A harvest of death, Gettysburg, PA. Dead Federal soldiers on battlefield. Negative by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Positive by Alexander Gardner.

155 Years Ago: The Battle of Gettysburg Began (But Everyone Forgets This Fact)

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A paramilitary solider stands guard at the main gate of North Korea's embassy in Beijing January 6, 2016. North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday morning.

Kim's Killers: North Korea’s Legendary Special Operations Assassins

Russia's War Plan to Crush NATO During the Cold War: Hundreds of Nuclear Bombs

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In 1969, the Soviet Union and China Nearly Started World War III

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The Virginia-class attack submarine USS California (SSN 781) underway during sea trials.

Did the Navy Build Secret Undersea Lairs for Its Nuclear Submarines?

A rainbow shines over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 24, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Independence Day Disaster: What If There Never Was a United States of America?

As 95-by-50-foot American flag is unfurled on the side of an apartment complex, a replica of the "The Great Flag" that was spun, woven, dyed, constructed and displayed on the same building by Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1914, in Manchester, New Hamp

The True Danger to America's Democracy

A U.S. Air Force Martin B-57A Canberra (s/n 52-1418, first production model), in flight over Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Maryland (USA), in 1953.

The B-57: How America's First Jet-Powered Bomber Went to War in Vietnam

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