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Franklin D. Roosevelt

US Supreme Court Justice

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Vitezslav Novak

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Igor Stravinskij

Symphony in C Major

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Hilding Rosenberg

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Aram Khachaturian

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Dmitry Kabalevsky

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Dmitrij Shostakovic

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Olivier Messiaen

Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps

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Medal for Dishonor: Death by Gas

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Candido Portinari

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Lyonel Feininger

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Gustav Vigeland

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First War Winter

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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalued i Domue8nec

Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire

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Howard Chandler Christy

Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States

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Woman Dressing Her Hair

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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalued i Domue8nec

The Face of War

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Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

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La Blouse Roumaine

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Office at Night

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Francis Bruguiue8re

Rosalinde Fuller and Other Models

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Arthur W. Aleshire

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Charles F.X. OBrien

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Charles Joseph Esterly

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Charles OConnor

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J. Van Vechten Olcott

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John Abercrombie

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the Underground bomb shelters

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He documented the Underground bomb shelters of London during The Blitz in 1940, commissioned by the Ministry of Information.

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French Indochina

Part of World War II

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Franco-Thai War

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Franco-Thai War

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Namsos Campaign

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Namsos Campaign

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Charles W. Brooks

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Ernest W. Gibson, Jr.

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Member of Wisconsin State Assembly

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Monrad Wallgren

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Winston Churchill

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Ruler of France

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William Morrison 1st Viscount Dunrossil

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Postmaster General of the United Kingdom

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Clarence E. Kilburn

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Florence R. Gibbs

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Frances P. Bolton

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Herbert C. Bonner

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John Hyde Sweet

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Margaret Chase Smith

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Morris Michael Edelstein

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Robert K. Goodwin

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