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Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg

Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game

Communism - mosaic hammer and sickle with star on the Pavilion of Ukraine at the All Russia Exhibition Centre (also known as VDNKh) in Moscow. Communist symbol of the former Soviet Union. USSR

Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?

Union Jack flag of Great Britain, united kingdom

What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922-1991. USSR, Soviet Union.

25th Anniversary of the End of the Soviet Union

Text Top Secret typed on retro typewriter

How Secret Is Top Secret?

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Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles

Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?

Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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Born	1911 • England
Died	August 30, 1963 (aged 52) • Moscow • Soviet Union

Kim Philby

British intelligence officer and Soviet spy

George Blake

British diplomat and Soviet spy

Frederick Forsyth

British author

Anthony Blunt

British art historian and spy

Donald Maclean

British diplomat and spy

John Cairncross

British civil servant and spy

Sir Harold Nicolson

British diplomat and author

John André

British military officer

Sidney Webb

British economist

Douglas Richard Hurd

British diplomat

Beatrice Webb

British economist

Boris Johnson

prime minister of United Kingdom

Cobbett, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Cobbett

British journalist

Walter Bagehot

British economist and journalist

Michael Gove

Scottish-born journalist and politician

Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of Halifax

British statesman

Tony Hall

British media executive

Sir Roger Casement

British politician

James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

British statesman

Sir Stafford Cripps

British statesman

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