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Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

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6 Wars of Independence

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

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In Arundhati Roy: Nonfiction works
…the Age of Empire (2004), Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (2009), Broken Republic: Three Essays (2011), and Capitalism: A Ghost Story (2014). My Seditious Heart (2019) is a collection of her nonfiction spanning 20 years.
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