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© Brian Deegan, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.
A German soldier stopped the Great War so he could ask Captain Hulse to post a letter for him.
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© Vladimir Kosov (2018), via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Malacca became a refuge from the overbearing empires of the Far East, thanks to a celebrated Chinese admiral.
From the Lindisfarne Gospels, ca. AD 700, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
St Mark wrote his Gospel as a summary of the preaching of St Peter.
By Yevgeny Khaldei (1916-1997), viua Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
In 1941, with much of the West subdued, Adolf Hitler bent the full force of his hatred on Moscow.
US Department of Defense, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
On May 8th, 1945, Winston Churchill took to the radio to tell the British public that almost six years of war were ended.
© Dasrath Shrestha Beejukchhen (Bablu), Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge holds on to those precious moments when loneliness is a problem for tomorrow.