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FRIDAY 12/15.
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FRIDAY 12/15.
Fight to the Death on Attu Island. Tsuguharu Foujita. 1943. Oil on canvas.
Death Directs the Bullet. Hans Larwin. 1917. Oil on Canvas.
President Barack Obama playing basketball. Various locations. 2008-2016.
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s travelling tent, where he would conduct diplomatic meetings around the world. Various locations. Late 2000s.
First Gulf War. Persian Gulf. 1990-1991.
Woodblock prints of the Russo-Japanese War. Region surrounding Liaodong Peninsula, modern-day China. 1904-1905.
The Napoleonic-style coronation of Jean-Bedel Bokassa. Bangui, Central African Empire. December 1977.
Hussars. Central Europe. 17th and 18th centuries.
Nazca Lines. Peru. 200 BCE - 500 CE.
Roger Fenton. Crimea, 1853-1856.
Dagger of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, made of metal sourced from a crashed meteorite. 14th Century BCE.
The Battle of Passchendaele. Ypres, Belgium, 1917.
Lynsey Addario. Basra, May 2006.
Vincent Van Gogh. Japonaiserie. 19th Century.
Dazzle camouflage, used by ships during World War One to avoid torpedoing by U-Boats.
A camouflaged Messerschmitt BF-109. North Africa. 1940s.