Amid the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, it is important to note, too, the anniversary of an...
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How engineers helped the Allies defeat Nazi Germany and win World War II. Introduction When Allied troops...
Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Launched on June 6,...
Introduction In the center of this image we see a finely-dressed Christopher Columbus with two soldiers. Columbus...
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The University of Melbourne’s anatomy museum features fossil models from an entirely fictional early human; a forgery...
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