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Space-Sputnik I-Pravda

(FILES) Picture dated 06 October 1957 shows the frontpage of the Sovietic newspaper Pravda after the launch of world's first satellite Sputnik I. On October 04 1957, the then-Union of Socialist Soviet Republics launched the world's first man-made satellite, called Sputnik. It was an event which at one sparked the so-called "space-race" and pushed the frontiers of the Cold War outside the Earth's atmosphere. / AFP PHOTO / FILES PRAVDA / -

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Title page of Le Tiers livre des Faicts et Dicts Heroique du Bon Pantagruel'

1200184 Title page of Le Tiers livre des Faicts et Dicts Heroique du Bon Pantagruel by FranA§ois Rabelais (engraving) by French School, (16th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by FranA§ois Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Book 3.); French, out of copyright

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Report of Colonel R. Delafield, U.S. Army, and Major of the Corps of Engineers

1272248 Report of Colonel R. Delafield, U.S. Army, and Major of the Corps of Engineers, on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, & 1856, litho by Bowen & Co., 1860 (chromolitho) by Weir, Robert Walter (1803-89) (after); 25x20 cm; Free Library of Philadelphia; (add.info.: Image of a "rope mantelet used by the Russians to protect the gunners from rifle shots."
This is the title page of a report on the military workings of war in Europe, especially defensive stragegy of the Russians.); A© Free Library of Philadelphia ; Print and Picture Collection - Jackson Collection of American Lithographs; American, out of copyright

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