Buzz Aldrin Poses next To The U.S. flag On Moon

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Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

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Glamorous portrait of movie actress Hedy Lamarr wearing white fox fur short jacket

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History heroMartha Lane Fox chooses Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000)

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

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German prisoners of war

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New York City police watching agents pour liquor into a sewer

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American socialite Wallis Simpson

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American actresses Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Bennett playing the March girls in George Cukor's film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women', 1933. (Photo by RKO Pictures/Courtesy of Getty Images)

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Crowds protest in Tehran

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Opinion: is Iran a nation at war with itself?

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"A great social experiment”: a brief guide to prohibition

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Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

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Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

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Sending history into battle: the lessons that war leaders have tried to learn from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lauren Bruner and Iyozo Fujita

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Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

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From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

Members of the Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1925. The Klan of this era was a terrorist group in the precise meaning of that term, says Linda Gordon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement

President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas governor John Connally ride through the streets of Dallas

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A young American woman gazes at a human skull, sent to her by a boyfriend during WW2

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Sir Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

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Who was Sir Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five? Plus 4 others who spied for the Soviets

Statue of Liberty. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Midway: the Pacific War on screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

11th November 1918: An army lorry in a London street on Armistice Day, carrying jubilant passengers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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'Yorktown' sustains a hit during the battle of Midway. The US aircraft carrier sank three days later but, by then, the Japanese had accepted that their attempt to land a war-winning blow had failed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Scores of people milled about the entrance to the Stock Exchange on 24 October 1929, as the market went through the greatest shake up in its history. It was a light tremor heralding the earthquake to come. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

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The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

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Queen Elizabeth II

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The differences between UK and US governments: a brief guide

This 1867 magazine illustration shows a group of children preparing for Halloween. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

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On 20 July 1969, Lunar Module 'Eagle' touched down gently on the Sea of Tranquility on the moon. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers via Getty Images)

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Henry Hemming.

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