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Hanging the Laundry out to Dry by Morisot
An 1875 oil on canvas painting, Hanging the Laundry out to Dry, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Painted in Gennevilliers, an outer suburb of Paris where new housing had recently been built. The painting is a...
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Chester: A Time-Travelling City
It is said that Chester is the richest city in Britain in terms of archaeological and architectural treasures. One of the finest strategic outposts of the Roman Empire, it is one of the few walled cities left in Britain today. Rachael Lindsay...
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Burnt-out Hamburg Buildings, Operation Gomorrah
A photograph of burnt-out residential buildings in Hamburg following the firestorm created by the RAF bombing campaign Operation Gomorrah of July 1943. (Imperial War Museums Collection)
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Slave Trader Advertisement Taken Out By Henry Laurens and His Partners in a Charleston Newspaper
A slave trader advertisement in a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper, taken out by Henry Laurens and his partners, published on 26 April 1760.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C.
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Burnt-out German Panzers, Tunisia
A 1943 photograph showing three burnt-out German panzers, destroyed by Allied anti-tank guns in the Tunisian desert during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)
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Ancient World Time Chart
A traditional depiction of the major events of the ancient world (Mesopotamia through the Greeks).
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Silphium: The Miracle Plant The Romans Wiped Out
Miracle contraceptive, wonder drug, aphrodisiac, the origin of the heart symbol, and hemorrhoid cure??? Tiktok, National Geographic, even FACEBOOK are all obsessed with this plant, Silphium, which grew over 2000 years ago here near Cyrene...
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6 Advanced Ancient Inventions We Still Can't Figure Out
We’ve lost the secret to making some of history’s most useful inventions, and for all of our ingenuity and discoveries, our ancestors of thousands of years ago are still able to baffle us with their ingenuity and discoveries. We have developed...
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Kingdom of Jerusalem at the Time of the Crusades
This map depicts the Kingdom of Jerusalem (existed 1099-1291 CE), along with the Counties of Tripoli, Edessa, and Antioch.
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Babylon at the time of the Kassites
A map of the Babylonian Empire during the time of the Kassites, roughly the 13th century BC. This map shows the probable river courses and coastline at that time.