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The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

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A sultan rides through Istanbul – at its height, the Empire ruled over more than 15 million subjects

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An engraving depicts a frost fair on the Thames

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February 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

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Henry III during the Second Barons' War

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Turkish artillery of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. (Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

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American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

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Richard Nixon resigns

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The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

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American civil rights leader Martin Luther King in Washington DC, where he delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech to a quarter of a million civil rights supporters in Washington DC in August 1963. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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