An outdoor lunchtime concert by National Symphony Orchestra at Farragut Square, Washington DC, United States. People gathered at the square. Orchestra members, casually dressed, seated on an open stage. The conductor of the orchestra announces the composition 'Roman Carnival' they are to perform. The musicians seated on the stage play the instruments and the conductor standing in front directs them. Musical score in front of the musicians. The heading on the musical scores read 'Roman Carnival'. A large crowd at the park listening to the orchestra.
The Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, United States. A man playing an 18th century flute in the museum, accompanied by a woman playing an 18th century harpsichord. Musical score visible at the top of the harpsichord. The man playing the flute standing beside the harpsichord. Music kept on a stand in front of the man. A woman copying a canvas inside the National Gallery of Art. Women walking through courtyard of the Gallery. A man looking at paintings mounted on a wall in the gallery. A man standing in front of a painting “Woman with a Sunflower” by Mary Cassatt. A man looking at the “Adoration of the Magi” by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi. A man views the “The Boating Party” by Mary Cassatt. A huge marble sign stone outside the building reads 'National Gallery of Art'. Sculptures and paintings displayed in the gallery. The man viewing the paintings. Two women looking at a painting. Several people walk inside the gallery viewing the paintings and the sculptures. A sculpture in the gallery.
The National Symphony Orchestra and the Netherlands Carillon in Washington, DC,the United States. The musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra performing on a stage in Farragut Square, Washington DC. A conductor, directing the musicians. Buildings and trees in the background. People in the park listening to the orchestra. Several views of the musicians and the people watching the performance. People seated on the grassy ground in the park listening to the music. The musicians on the stage performing. 'Summer in the parks' written on the backdrop of the stage. The people applaud the musicians at the end of the performance. The Netherlands Carillon at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. United States Fleet Commander in Chief Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall and another military officer seated at a table during a preliminary meeting at the Yalta Conference. Commanding General of U.S. Army Service Forces General Brehon B.Somervell standing beside General Marshall and talking to him. The General looking into a document at a table. General Somervell walks away. American and British Army officers seated around the table at the conference. General Marshall opening a document at the table and talking to the officers. Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Alan Brooke seated among other officers at the conference.
The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Averell Harriman disembarking from an aircraft at Allied Air Terminal in Luqa. Ambassador Harriman talking to an official standing beside the aircraft. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest King disembarks from an aircraft. He is greeted by British Army Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson and another officer. The officers talking beside an aircraft. Ambassador Harriman with Major General F. M. Anderson Deputy Commander USSTAF (United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe) and other officers. Several officers beside an aircraft in the background.
Scenes from the Russian Revolution and years immediately after in Russia, roughly 1918-1921. Troops moving in the snow. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, makes peace with the Germans. The Civil War breaks out in Russia. White Russians continue war with World War 1 allies, against Germany. Czarist Cossacks seek to restore the monarchy of Nicholas II. Photograph of the Russian Czar and family sitting outdoors on the ledge of a wooden building. Secret police seen arresting people. Bolshevik firing squad executes three prisoners, who fall dead into a mass grave behind them. Lenin, holding a kitten in his hand, seated at a table. March 7, 1921: Workers and sailors gathered on the streets, in Kronstadt, demanding peace, freedom, and bread. Red Army Troops disperse the crowd, shooting many of them. Leon Trotsky, Commander of the Red Army, states that the slaughter was necessary. Trotsky seen walking with other officers. People on the sides of a path watching Trotsky. Families looking over dead workers and sailors in a field.
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