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A Day at the Tower
Discover the Tower of London
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Palazzo del Quirinale
The Home of all Italians opens its doors to everyone
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Treasures of the Palace Museum
Step inside the home of Emperors
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Wonders of Andalusia
A showcase of Andalusia's finest cultural treasures.
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Life in Miniature
Paintings that tell stories of nature, love, celebration, faith, and power: explore over 1,000 high resolution miniatures using Machine Learning and Augmented Reality
Pocket Gallery
The Deutsche Grammophon Cover Stories
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Museum of the Civil Guard
Spain
Bröhan-Museum
Germany
University of Milan
Italy
Symbols of Battle: Civil War Flags
This collection includes flags from several National Park Service sites. Flags serve many purposes. They symbolize a people and represent national pride. Flags convey a shared history. Over the centuries, military units have carried flags and colors. Colors and flags affirm group identity. They build pride and morale, and represent the group's honor. In battle, flags served as a rallying point when a formation was broken. Troops gathered around the flag to regroup, attack or retreat. Flags marked specific individuals, locations and functions such as hospitals and ambulances. Infantry regiments regularly held trooping ceremonies. Colors were paraded up and down the line of assembled soldiers to music to make sure the men remembered the colors. A guard of non-commissioned officers usually protected flags and colors. Held in great reverence, a regiment's honor was embodied in its colors. The entire regiment was humiliated if its colors were lost in battle. From the establishment of the United States Army in 1785, US regular infantry regiments carried colors. Regiments didn't carry the United States flag, as it was felt that no one unit could carry the national honor into battle. By the 1840's, the infantry carried the United States flag with the regimental number or title printed on one of the white stripes. If the flag was lost in battle, only that regiment's honor, and not the national honor, was lost. During the Civil War, a soldier who captured enemy colors or saved his unit's colors frequently was honored. In addition to receiving a medal honor, a soldier was sometimes given a leave of absence. Soldiers who captured enemy colors were often mentioned in dispatches or listed on a role of honor.
Lviv Historical Museum
Ukraine
National Museum of the United States Army
United States
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Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial
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Filmoteca PUCP
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
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Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation
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Chapter3-6: Tachibana Muneshige and His Samurai Vassals of the Yanagawa Domain
Tachibana Museum
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DELUGE / DELUGE REDIVIVUS
Filmoteka Narodowa
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The first images of the spanish civil war
Agencia EFE
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Faces of Freedom, Stories of Service
The Valentine
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@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
FOR-SITE Foundation
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California Goes to War
California State Archives
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The Berlin Job
Peter Millar
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Captured: The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes
Kansas Historical Society
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Stratagems in Architecture Hong Kong in Venice
Stratagems in Architecture: Hong Kong in Venice - Biennale Architettura 2016
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"To My Peoples!"
Europeana
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From Ghetto in Theresienstadt to Auschwitz II-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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Robben Island Prison Tour
Robben Island Museum
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23-F: THE COUP ATTEMPT IN SPAIN
Agencia EFE
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The Hambach Festival of 1832
Hambach Castle
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Book of the Dead
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum
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The Men on the Memorial
Europeana
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Shifting Poland
Polish History Museum
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Mayday 1971
DC Public Library
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The Holocaust: History and Memory
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Evacuation and Liberation of the Auschwitz Camp
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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My Moment with the Legend Nelson Mandela
The Nelson Mandela Foundation
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Tragic Love at Auschwitz
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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Space-Time And Place: The Culture of Indian Maps
Kalakriti Archives
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Iwo Jima Purple Hearts: Common Men, Uncommon Valor
National Museum of the Marine Corps
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Not Only Lady
The National Museum in Krakow
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Carl Spitzweg in Milwaukee
Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering
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Houston Museum of Natural Science's Land That Time Forgot
Houston Museum of Natural Science
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When and where will we meet again!
Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
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1990 -1997
Pérez Celis - Museo Virtual
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Before They Perished...
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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Traces of Them Remain...
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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Separated by History
Polish History Museum
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Photographs from the Warsaw Rising
Warsaw Rising Museum
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Support Centers: Letters
Arquivo Público do Distrito Federal - ArPDF
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Cosmology to Cartography
Kalakriti Archives
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Revolution in Berlin
Robert Havemann Gesellschaft
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The Warsaw Citadel
Polish History Museum
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We Are Defending Prague! We Will Defend Prague!
Memory of Nations
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Prehistory: The Fist Farming and Stockbreeding Societies and Los Millares Society
Museo de Almería
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Wings of Liberation
Historia Park - Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels [The Wings of Liberation Museum]
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The Fall of the Wall
Peter Millar
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Thirteen Works: Explore the Gardner's Stolen Art
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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"Heroes": Principles of African Greatness Part 4—Our Ancestors Lived Free
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
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Eolssigu!
Museum of Music of Barcelona
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Styling an Era: The Story of Edward Enninful
British Fashion Council
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
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Timișoara, the first free city
TVR, The Romanian Public Broadcaster
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Street Fans
The Fan Museum
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Chicago: Law and Disorder
Chicago History Museum
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When millinery meets art: inside the world of Christine Rohr
German Hat Museum
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Picture Gallery in Transformation
MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
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London Passenger Transport Board's Home Guard of WWII
TfL Corporate Archives
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A Virtual Exhibition on the Life and Times of Nelson Mandela
The Nelson Mandela Foundation
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The 175th Anniversary of Spain's Civil Guard
Museum of the Civil Guard
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Power Behind the Veil
American Institute of Indian Studies
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The History of Tachibana Garden
Tachibana Museum
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Pomp and Pleasure: palaces & gardens of French nobility
1 Pocket Gallery
Pocket Gallery
The Deutsche Grammophon Cover Stories
1,098 items
1,098 items
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