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India [videos]

India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country as well as the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the …

Paintings at the Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 6th century

The granite tower of Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur was completed in 1010 CE by Raja Raja Chola I.

Granada [videos]

Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro, the Genil, the Monachil and the Beiro. It sits at an average …

Arco/Puerta de Elvira in Granada

Coat of arms of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in the Palacio de Comares room in the Alhambra.

The Capitulation of Granada by F. Padilla: Muhammad XII before Ferdinand and Isabella (circa 1882).

Albaicín

History of France [videos]

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Cave painting in Lascaux

Massalia (modern Marseille) silver coin with Greek legend, a testimony to Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, 5th–1st century BC

Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar after the Battle of Alesia. Painting by Lionel-Noël Royer, 1899.

Gaulish soldiers

Ferrari [videos]

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Ferrari 312T2 Formula One car driven by Niki Lauda

Ferrari SF15-T (2015)

A 312PB (driven by Jacky Ickx) during the team's final year in the World Sportscar Championship

166 Inter Touring Berlinetta

Aston Martin [videos]

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Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, the brand's current flagship model

1923 Razor Blade Team car

1924 tourer

1937 2-Litre open 2/4-seater Speed model, Kop Hill 2010

Holy Crown of Hungary [videos]

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The Holy Crown

Back of the Holy Crown

The crown depicted in the 15th-century Fugger Chronicle. All images of the crown before the mid-17th century show the cross in its original upright position.

Holy Crown of Hungary, 1857

Brad Pitt [videos]

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Pitt at the premiere of Fury in Washington, D.C., October 2014

Pitt with Andrew Lauer, roommates after college

Pitt at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival

Pitt in December 2001

Koh-i-Noor [videos]

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Glass replicas of the diamond before (upside down) and after it was re-cut in 1852

One of Ranjit Singh's favourite horses with the head of his stables. His jewels are shown, to scale, including the Koh-i-Noor (top centre).

$Koh-i-Noor - Diagram of the pre-1852 cut. Fig I. Shaded area is the base. Fig II. A: flaw; B and C: notches cut to hold stone in a setting; D: flaw created by fracture at E; F: fracture created by a blow; G: unpolished cleavage plane; H: basal cleavage plane. Fig III. Opposite side, showing facets and peak of the "Mountain of Light"$

Diagram of the pre-1852 cut. Fig I. Shaded area is the base. Fig II. A: flaw; B and C: notches cut to hold stone in a setting; D: flaw created by fracture at E; F: fracture created by a blow; G: unpolished cleavage plane; H: basal cleavage plane. Fig III. Opposite side, showing facets and peak of the "Mountain of Light"

In the armlet given to Victoria

United States [videos]

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Martone

Death of Captain Cook by Johann Zoffany (1795)

Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull

The national mammal, an American bison in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Zoe Saldana [videos]

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Saldana at the 2016 Comic-Con International

Saldana at the "Entertainment Weekly: Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture" panel, Comic-Con 2009

Saldana at the 82nd Academy Awards (2010)

Saldana at the 2014 Alma Awards, while she was pregnant with twins

Austrian Crown Jewels [videos]

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Imperial Orb, Crown, and Sceptre of Austria

Imperial Crown

Emperor Francis I wearing the Imperial Mantle and regalia

Cradle of the King of Rome

Michael Jordan [videos]

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Jordan in 2014

Jordan going in for a slam-dunk for the Laney High School varsity basketball team, 1979–80

Jordan's number 23 jersey among others in the rafters of the Dean Smith Center

Jordan with coach Phil Jackson, 1997

Louis IX of France [videos]

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Contemporary depiction from about 1230

Engraving representing the departure from Aigues-Mortes of King Louis IX for the Seventh Crusade (by Gustave Doré)

Equestrian statue of King Saint Louis at the Sacré-Cœur

Louis IX was taken prisoner at the Battle of Fariskur, during the Seventh Crusade (Gustave Doré).

Interest bearing note [videos]

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$50 three-year interest bearing note (1865), 7.3% interest paid semi-annually (with all coupons still attached).

Image: US $10 IBN 1864 Fr.196a

Image: US $20 IBN 1864 Fr.197

Image: US $100 IBN 1864 Fr 204

Duesenberg [videos]

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Duesenberg family with Fred and August in the middle, ca. 1886

1923 Duesenberg Model A touring car at the Louwman Museum

1930 J Walker La Grande Torpedo Phaeton

Model J engine

Norton Simon Museum [videos]

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The museum entrance hall

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve (pair), c. 1530

'Digambara Yaksha Sarvahna' from Karnataka, India, c. 900 CE

Rembrandt, Self-portrait, c. 1640

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Wood-engraving of the Ashmolean c. 1845

Renovated Ashmolean central atrium

Ashmolean Rooftop Terrace 2014

Image: Brighton Pierrots Walter Sickert

Polish Crown Jewels [videos]

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Replicas of the Crown of Bolesław I the Brave, the royal orb and sceptre used for the coronation of Stanisław II August in 1764

Regalia of King Augustus III

Polish replica of the Holy Lance, Wawel Cathedral Treasury

Crown of Bolesław I the Brave

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Looking north towards O'Brien's Tower

A 19th-century Photochrom postcard of the cliffs, with Leacmayornagneeve rock in the foreground

Visitor centre

Cliffs of Moher Cruise

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An artist's impression of Parameswara, who ruled Singapore in the 1390s.

A fragment of the Singapore Stone, inscribed with an Indic script, c. 10th to 13th century.

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

The Plan of the Town of Singapore, or more commonly known as the Jackson Plan or Raffles Town Plan.

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Gold coin of Diodotus c. 245 BC. The Greek inscription reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ – "(of) King Diodotus".

Remains of a Hellenistic capital found in Balkh, ancient Bactra.

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus 230–200 BC. The Greek inscription reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΥΘΥΔΗΜΟΥ – "(of) King Euthydemus".

Asia in 200 BC, showing the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and its neighbors.

Coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus 230–200 BC. The Greek inscription reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΥΘΥΔΗΜΟΥ – "(of) King Euthydemus".

Ancient Greek coinage [videos]

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The earliest coinage of Athens, circa 545-525/15 BC

Archaic coin of Athens with effigy of Athena on the obverse, and olive sprig, owl and ΑΘΕ, initials of "Athens" on the reverse. Circa 510-500/490 BC

Ancient Greek coinage - Above: Six rod-shaped obeloi (oboloi) displayed at the Numismatic Museum of Athens, discovered at Heraion of Argos. Below: grasp of six oboloi forming one drachma

Above: Six rod-shaped obeloi (oboloi) displayed at the Numismatic Museum of Athens, discovered at Heraion of Argos. Below: grasp of six oboloi forming one drachma

A Syracusan tetradrachm (c. 415–405 BC) Obverse: head of the nymph Arethusa, surrounded by four swimming dolphins and a rudder Reverse: a racing quadriga, its charioteer crowned by the goddess Victory in flight.

Will Smith [videos]

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Smith in 2017

Smith at the Emmy Awards in 1993

Smith hosting the 2011 Walmart Shareholders Meeting

Smith performed the soccer 2018 World Cup's official song "Live It Up"

History of Monaco [videos]

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The Rock in 1890

La Roche in modern times

Western Front in 1944

View of Monaco in 2016

History of Israel [videos]

The Land of Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish people, the place where the Hebrew Bible was composed and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity. It contains sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Samaritanism, Druze and the Bahá'í Faith. — The …

Es Skhul cave

The Merneptah Stele. While alternative translations exist, the majority of biblical archaeologists translate a set of hieroglyphs as "Israel," representing the first instance of the name in the historical record.

City of David in Jerusalem

The route of the exiles to Babylon

Legion of Honour [videos]

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Louis Philippe I, King of the French, wearing the sash of the order

Image: Premiere legion dhonneur

Image: Napoleon coat IMG 1412

Image: Debret Premiere distribution des decorations de la Legion d'honneur

Enzo Ferrari (automobile) [videos]

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Enzo Ferrari

The F140B V12 engine

The Ferrari Enzo used the F1 transmission and had a gear shift indicator on the steering wheel telling the driver when to change gears

The Ferrari Enzo used carbon ceramic brake discs, a first for a Ferrari road car

Genoa [videos]

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A collage of Genoa, clockwise from top left: Lighthouse of Genoa, Piazza De Ferrari, Galleria Mazzini, Brigata Liguria Street, view of San Teodoro from Port of Genoa

St. George's flag flying on the Doge's Palace in Genoa

San Benigno business district

Genoa exhibition centre

Lake Como [videos]

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Panoramic view of Lake Como with the Alps and Bellagio

Aerial photograph of Lake Como, showing its distinctive three-armed shape

Villa Carlotta

Villa Melzi d'Eril

Marie Antoinette [videos]

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Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1778

Archduchesses Maria Antonia in a pink dress and Maria Carolina in blue (watercolor on ivory by Antonio Pencini, 1764)

Archduchess Maria Antonia (watercolor by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1762)

Marriage of Marie Antoinette with Louis-Auguste celebrated in the Royal Chapel of Versailles by the Archbishop-Duke of Reims on May 16, 1770

Malibu, California [videos]

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Aerial view of Downtown Malibu and surrounding neighborhoods

Sign of historical Malibu coast of 27 miles (43 km) from Point Mugu east to Tuna Canyon

Dawn in the Santa Monica Mountains

Malibu lagoon

Aureus [videos]

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Aureus minted in 193 by Septimius Severus to celebrate XIV Gemina Martia Victrix, the legion that proclaimed him emperor.

Aureus of Octavian, c. 30 BC.

Kate Bosworth [videos]

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Bosworth at the Deauville Film Festival, 2011

Bosworth at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

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Cheadle in 2011

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