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American Avenger

1940: Six American Avenger torpedo attack planes begin a dive out of formation, World War II, African Front. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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March - Tossing the Pancake

A Victorian cook, kitchen maid and the family of the house enjoying the traditional Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) pancake tossing excitement in the kitchen. From “The Comic Almanack for 1837: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest Containing All Things Fitting For Such Work by Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. - Adorned with a dozen of ‘Righte Merrie’ Cuts pertaining to the Months, and an Hieroglyphic, by George Cruikshank.” Published in London by Charles Tilt ‘Bibliopolist’, 1836.

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Callisto And Artemis

The nymph Callisto succumbs to the embraces of Zeus, who is disguised as the goddess Artemis. Artemis, who demanded that her nymphs remained chaste, later discovered the indiscretion and turned Callisto into a bear. Engraving by Fr. Stober after Joh. Ender. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

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