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A Japanese carrier force attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawaii, on 7 December 1941 and so brought the United States into the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Hawaii #ImperialJapan #PacificWar #PearlHarbour #SecondWorldWar #USNavy #USPacificFleet #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2954-en/

The Nimrud Ivories are a vast collection of figures, panels, and plaques, carved from ivory, dated to the 9th to 7th centuries BCE, discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Nimrud. #History #PhoenicianArt #Nineveh #Kalhu #Dur-Sharrukin #Assyria #AshurnasirpalII #Ashur #Ivory #Nimrud #NimrudIvories #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-784-en/

In Greek mythology, Calypso, whose name means "to hide" or "to conceal," is a nymph best known from Homer's (c.750 BCE) epic The Odyssey for falling in love with Odysseus and imprisoning him on her island, Ogygia, for seven years (or five years, depending on the source), during his long voyage home. #History #Odyssey #Odysseus #Homer #GreekMythology #Calypso #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24943-en/

The North American P-51 Mustang was a long-range fighter aircraft used by the air forces of the United States and Great Britain during the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Aircraft #FighterPlane #KoreanWar #RAF #SecondWorldWar #USAAF #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-28747-en/

Assur (also Ashur, Anshar) is the god of the ancient Assyrians who was elevated from a local deity of the city of Ashur to the supreme god of the Assyrian pantheon. #History #Neo-AssyrianEmpire #Marduk #Assyria #Assur #Ashurbanipal #Ashur #ArslanTashAmulet #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-269-en/

Ninurta (identified with Ningirsu, Pabilsag, and the biblical Nimrod) is the Sumerian and Akkadian hero-god of war, hunting, and the south wind. #History #Ninurta #Mesopotamia #Kalhu #AshurnasirpalII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10530-en/

The Maginot Line was an extensive series of fortifications built by France through the 1930s to protect its eastern borders from German attack. #History #MaginotLine #Fortifications #France #FrenchArmy #SecondWorldWar #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23862-en/