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    'The Last Supper' by Leonardo da Vinci.
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    Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings: a guide to 8 famous works

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    In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross

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    This photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945, at the end of World War 2. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing – with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 9 August 1945. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
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    In pictures: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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    In pictures: jubilant VE Day street party celebrations

    Keith Granville, managing director of BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), holding a model of the Boeing 747 jet, with the new aircraft hangars under construction in the background, at Heathrow Airport, 17 March 1969. (Photo by Jim Gray/Keystone/Getty Images)
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    Day of the God, painted by Paul Gaugin. (Image by Alamy)
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    A year in pictures: 1894

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    In pictures: English life in the 1960s, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones

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    A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    In pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

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    In pictures: what did the real Peaky Blinders look like?

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    In pictures: The Ashes through history

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    In pictures: erotic postcards of the early 20th century

    c1943: Soldiers enjoy a baseball match at Wembley Stadium in London between the United States Army and Canadian Forces. With them sits Bobby, the mascot of the Canadian Highland Scottish regiment. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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