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Take a look at George Bernard Shaw speaking on the marvels of Movietone

Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove

Beerbohm, Max: The Churchill-Wells Controversy

Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

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Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

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Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

Pro and Con: School Uniforms

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

8 of the Largest Empires in History

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics

10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

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Take a look at George Bernard Shaw speaking on the marvels of Movietone

Take a look at George Bernard Shaw speaking on the marvels of Movietone

George Bernard Shaw speaking about the novelty of technology; excerpt from a Hearst...

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Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove

Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove

Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964), directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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Beerbohm, Max: The Churchill-Wells Controversy

Beerbohm, Max: The Churchill-Wells Controversy

The Churchill-Wells Controversy, pencil and wash drawing by Max Beerbohm,...

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“La Poire,” caricature of Louis-Philippe by Charles Philipon, about 1830–35; in the...

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Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

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