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    Detail of a cave painting at Lascaux, France. © Getty

    Prehistoric

    Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre. © Getty

    Ancient Egypt

    Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. © Getty

    Ancient Greece

    Colosseum in Rome, Italy. © Getty

    Ancient Rome

    Middle Ages

    Anglo-Saxon helmet from Sutton Hoo. © Getty

    Anglo-Saxons

    Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. © Getty

    Vikings

    Bayeux Tapestry depicting Norman conquest of England in 1066. © Getty

    Normans

    13th Century battle scene. © Getty

    Medieval

    Marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France. © Getty

    Plantagenets

    Early Modern

    An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1590. © Getty

    Tudors

    Triptych portrait of King Charles I of England by Sir Anthony Van Dyck. © Getty

    Stuarts

    Portrait of the King George III in his Coronation Robes. © Getty

    Georgians

    Modern

    Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with Five of their Children, 1846. © Getty

    Victorians

    Sir Joseph William Bazalgette views the construction of the Northern Outfall sewer. He constructed London's drainage system and the Thames Embankment and was a pioneer of public health engineering. © Getty

    19th Century

    Apollo 11 - Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses beside the U.S. flag that has been placed on the moon, 1969. © NASA

    20th century

    Martin Luther King Jr. waves to the vast crowd that has amassed for the March on Washington © Getty

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    Soldier Demonstrating a tommy gun to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. © Getty

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    German SA Troops Marching with Nazi Flags at Nuremberg, 1933. © Getty

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