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Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo. General Porfirio Diaz leads Mexican cavalry to victory against the French lead by General Charles Lorencez at Puebla, Mexico April 2, 1867. Oil on canvas, 1902. May 5, 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza

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German machine gunners occupy a trench during World War I.

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Also Known As	prosencephalon

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olfactory bulb endbrain interbrain thalamus hypothalamus pineal gland epithalamus archipallium paleopallium cerebral hemisphere limbic system midbrain meninges cerebrum brainstem hindbrain neuroplasticity neural oscillation cross-modal plasticity