Painting of a European marketplace

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Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

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Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

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A still from American-made war epic All Quiet on the Western Front

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A German soldier captured during the battle of Kursk, July–August 1943. Germany’s last major offensive on the eastern front ended in crushing defeat (Photo by STF/AFP/ GettyImages)

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Grave of a fallen soldier in World War I

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A man goes into a village at night on the eve of Samhain

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Jan Žižka: one of history's greatest military leaders, who was blind but undefeated

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A propaganda photograph showing a typical German family eating the Eintopf, a cost-saving stew promoted by the Third Reich

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Photo of the SAS in North Africa

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A scene from the Luttrell Psalter, c1330, gives an idealised insight into everyday life in 14th-century rural England

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Thousands gathered in Portugal in October 1917 to witness the Miracle of the Sun.

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Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, c1860, (left) and actor Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth in Netflix drama The Empress.

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The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister

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Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

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Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s

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Rosa Parks rides on a Montgomery bus

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James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England and Ireland) and his young wife, Anna of Denmark

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Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

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