Tomyris, a Massagetean ruler, led her armies against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire. She defeated and killed him in 530 BC.

A cestus was an ancient battle glove, worn like today's boxing gloves but sometimes filled with iron plates or fitted with blades or spikes.

The Chinese Civil War was fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China. It began in August 1927, with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition, and essentially ended when major hostilities ceased in 1950.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located at Arlington National Cemetery, a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.