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A member of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service raises the victory gesture as others hold upside-down the black flag of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, on June 30, 2017. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)

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An old chromolithograph map of the Persian Empire. (Getty Images)

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An employee checks the production line of drink bottles at the workshop of Changji Baolong Packaging Technology Development Co., Ltd. on May 6, 2024, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. (Tao Weiming/VCG via Getty Images)

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China's President Xi Jinping speaks in Brasilia on November 20, 2024. (Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images)

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Soldiers hold US and Japanese flags during a welcome ceremony for Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. (Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images)

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Motorbike riders cross into the snow laden Himalayan Sela pass in Arunachal Pradesh on April 5, 2023. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)

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Engraving of American writer Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 - 1879), circa 1850, by J.C. Buttre. (Kean Collection/Archive Photos via Getty Images)