According to AirshipJungleman's nomination statement, "The Siege of Baghdad shook the world. The end of the Abbasid Caliphate, the zenith of the Mongol conquests, the foundation of a new empire in the Middle East. Legends sprang up around the siege, and it became a byword for wanton destruction—but was it?" Apparently not, although the inhabitants might argue that 200,000 killed vs. 2,000,000 is a matter of degree, not intent...!
The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial located in Saratoga National Historical Park, New York. Erected during 1887 by John Watts de Peyster and sculpted by George Edwin Bissell, it commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold's service at the Battles of Saratoga while in the Continental Army, but does not mention him on the monument because Arnold later betrayed the Continental Army to the British Army. Instead, it commemorates Arnold as the "most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army".
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A NASA Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flying over a Northrop HL-10 and its pilot William H. Dana in 1969
A de Havilland Mosquito in flight during 1942 or 1943
Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz concentration camp in May 1944; this photo forms part of the Auschwitz Album
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