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![Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/GettyImages-964322666.jpg?h=b2774bcf&itok=8LR2ZEhQ)
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![The USS Mason conducts divisional tactic maneuvers in the Gulf of Oman, Sept. 10, 2016. (Petty Officer 1st Class Blake Midnight/DoD/Released)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12959/feature_20161028_cropsey160910_n_wb378_010_a_jpg.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=VH4-vKYz)
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The USS Mason conducts divisional tactic maneuvers in the Gulf of Oman, Sept. 10, 2016. (Petty Officer 1st Class Blake Midnight/DoD/Released)
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![A ship sunk by Egyptians to block the Suez Canal appears at the surface of water, November 11, 1956 in Port Saïd. (STAFF/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12962/feature_20161028_doran_getty_images_111487196.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=UNQpr_hV)
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A ship sunk by Egyptians to block the Suez Canal appears at the surface of water, November 11, 1956 in Port Saïd. (STAFF/AFP/Getty Images)
![Members of the Egyptian police special forces patrol streets in al-Haram neighborhood in the southern Cairo Giza district on January 25, 2016. (MAHMOUD KHALED/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12946/feature_20161025_wrm_getty_images_506719516.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=wUeaHiOl)
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Members of the Egyptian police special forces patrol streets in al-Haram neighborhood in the southern Cairo Giza district on January 25, 2016. (MAHMOUD KHALED/AFP/Getty Images)
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![US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on April 22, 2016 in New York. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12942/feature_20161024_smith_getty_images_523280536.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=z0Az__zK)
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US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on April 22, 2016 in New York. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)
![Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. (Chris Tobin)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12939/feature_20161021_gilbert_getty_images_164941842.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=CRN05wjy)
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Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. (Chris Tobin)
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![An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter fires at Islamic-State (IS) militant positions, from his position on the top of Mount Zardak, about 25 kilometers east of Mosul on September 9, 2014. (JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12926/feature_20161018_pregent_truitte_getty_images_455041974.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=hlX2zbxw)
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An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter fires at Islamic-State (IS) militant positions, from his position on the top of Mount Zardak, about 25 kilometers east of Mosul on September 9, 2014. (JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
![Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) prior to a joint press conference at Turkey's Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey on December 01, 2014. (Kayhan Ozer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12920/feature_20161016_wrm_getty_images_459785640.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=IxkZiJ0V)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) prior to a joint press conference at Turkey's Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey on December 01, 2014. (Kayhan Ozer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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![(L-R) Sir Winston Churchill & Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower. (George Skadding/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/12913/feature_20161011_doran_getty_images_50392875.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=_VLzFR2O)
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(L-R) Sir Winston Churchill & Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower. (George Skadding/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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