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My precious heart, my handsome soldier son,
I write this letter with my blood to you.
Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling
our world has turned red of a fiery hue.
The big decisive battle…
Contributor:
Zseni Várnai
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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This was the psychological state we were in when the war arrived. The war was not a political issue for us. We were thinking neither about the question of war guilt nor about a victorious outcome; we…
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Ernst Simon
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Germany, Germany
Date:
1919
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These fragments of a mural from Kuntillet Ajrud show two human heads, facing left and looking out over their city’s wall, which is flanked by towers. The mural may have been part of a military scene…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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Late 8th Century BCE
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This stamp seal depicts an archer shooting at a fleeing quadruped, possibly an antelope. The action is difficult to make out. From the viewer’s perspective the archer is behind the animal while the…
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Moza, Land of Israel (Motsa, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA, Late 10th–Early 9th Century BCE
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Message of Amaryaw: “Say to my lord, are you well? I have blessed you by YHWH of Teman and His asherah. May He bless you and may He keep you, and may He be with my lord [forever(?)].”)
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late ninth or Early eighth Century BCE
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On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying:
Take a…
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Biblical Period
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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
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1938–1948
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Walter Rosenblum
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1944
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945