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Dutch ships in the Arctic, 1600s

Dutch ships of Henry Hudson's time near Novaya Zemlya, early 1600s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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Congress of Berlin, 1878

Otto von Bismarck welcoming delegates to the Congress of Berlin, 1878.
Photogravure reproduction of a 19th-century illustration by Anton von Werner

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Skirmish between Russian and Swedish cavalry at the Battle of Poltava during the Great Northern War, 1709.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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