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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
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A painting of Abigail Adams by Christian Schussele. (Wikimedia Commons)
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US Border guards deter illegal migrants as they try to cut the razor wire fences put up by the Texas National Guard in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 22, 2024. (Christian Torres via Getty Images)
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Airmen from the 1st Air Support Operations Group utilize data links as part of Exercise Chaos Quate at Moody Air Force Base on March 15, 2022. (US Air Force photo by 1st Lt Katie Tamesis)
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A Ukrainian soldier stands in front of railroad station destroyed by Russian shelling on March 15, 2024, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine. (Photo by Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Dr. Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee on December 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
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The logo of Nippon Steel Corporation at the company's Kyushu manufacturing base on February 16, 2024, in Kitakyushu, Japan. (Philip Fong via Getty Images)
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The LNG tanker Maria Energy is moored alongside the Floating Storage and Regasification Unit vessel Hoegh Esperanza at the Uniper LNG terminal at the Jade estuary in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on January 4, 2023. (Focke Strangmann via Getty Images)
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The United States detonates an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946. (Wikimedia Commons)
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