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A farmer in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

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Kuttenberg as seen in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

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A Japanese woodblock print, c1855, depicting the mythological giant catfish Namazu, and the god Takemikazuchi subduing it with the kaname-ishi stone (Photo by Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A 17th-century painting of Maria Theresa of Austria, by Pierre Mignard (Photo by Prisma/UIG/Getty Images)

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Portrait of Jane Austen as a young woman.

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An artist's impression of the scene on the track, hours after the Abergele Train Disaster, a carriage is on its side and smoke billows from the wreck

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Jane Austen's grave.

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The hydroelectric power plants at Niagara Falls, seen in 1890, would have been a key target for the US in War Plan Red (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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The coronation of Harold Godwinson as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

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The view through a crosshair in Sniper Elite V2. (Photo by Rebellion)

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Several men stand around a table in a submarine

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Battle at Fontenoy, AD 841

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The Fall of the Titans, 1588-90, painting by Cornelis van Haarlem (Photo by PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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