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This Is What Snow Looks Like in Olaus Magnus's Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555

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The Empyrean, Gustave Doré

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Jews in the German Army on a Frosty Hanukkah, 1916

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Cholera Stays Away from France for Fear of Catching the Flu

British officers walk on foot by the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, a mounted rider nearby, with crowds and spectators on balconies and walls.

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General Allenby entered Jerusalem on foot through the Jaffa Gate in December 1917

When the British General Allenby accepted the surrender of Jerusalem in December 1917, he entered the city on foot through the Jaffa Gate, saying that he would not ride his horse into a city into which the Lord had ridden on a donkey. Allenby was the first Christian to capture