Images Dated 21st February 2013

Tsar Bomba nuclear weapon display

Tsar Bomba nuclear weapon display. Museum display of an example of the casing of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. The Tsar Bomba (AN602) was a Soviet hydrogen bomb with a yield equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT explosives. It was detonated on 30 October 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Russian Arctic. The resulting mushroom cloud reached a height of over 60 kilometres, and the effects were felt hundreds of kilometres away. Photographed in 1993, at the museum of nuclear weapons in the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre, in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region

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Maurice de Hirsch (1831 A?o??n? 1896). Was a German-Jewish

Maurice de Hirsch (1831 A?o??n? 1896). Was a German-Jewish philanthropist who set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry. He was the founder of the Jewish Colonization Association. Engraving. The artistic illustration, 1896. Colored

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John Hancock (1737-1793). Was a merchant, statesman, and pro

John Hancock (1737-1793). Was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Engraving by Copley. The Amercian Revolution. Colored

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