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earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.
The 6 Deadliest Earthquakes Since 1950
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics
10 Best Hockey Players of All Time
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION
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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)
6 Important Mughal Emperors
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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Born November 27, 1921 • Slovakia
Died November 7, 1992 (aged 70) • Prague • Czech Republic
Title / Office secretary (1968-1969), Czechoslovakia
Political Affiliation Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Role In Prague Spring

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Artur London
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Novotný, Antonín
Antonín Novotný
president of Czechoslovakia
Antonín Zápotocký
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Tomáš Masaryk
president of Czechoslovakia
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Alois Rašín
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Vladimír Clementis
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Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš
president of Czechoslovakia
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Václav Havel
president of Czech Republic
Jan Masaryk.
Jan Masaryk
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Jozef Tiso
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Milan Štefánik
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Vítězslav Novák
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Leonid Brezhnev
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sculpture of Andrej Hlinka
Andrej Hlinka
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Gustav Husak
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Ivan Bella
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Konstantin, baron von Neurath
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