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bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.
Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
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
Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company
Periods of American Literature
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
In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.
6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters
Sailboat against a beautiful landscape
Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

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Born April 7, 1891 • Dunedin • New Zealand
Died September 19, 1963 (aged 72) • London • England
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Harry Furniss
Anglo-Irish caricaturist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast
American political caricaturist
The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of the United States, cartoon by John T. McCutcheon
John T. McCutcheon
American cartoonist
Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld
American caricaturist
Mauldin, Bill
Bill Mauldin
American cartoonist
political cartoon of Napoleon Bonaparte and King George III
James Gillray
English caricaturist
George Cruikshank
British artist
Lansbury, oil painting by Sylvia Gosse; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Lansbury
British politician
Robinson, Boardman
Boardman Robinson
American caricaturist and painter
Herblock
American cartoonist
James Fenton
British poet and journalist
Ralph Steadman
British artist and cartoonist
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
Robert Maxwell, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
British publisher
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
British newspaper editor and proprietor
Lord Beaverbrook, 1941.
Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
British politician and journalist
Beerbohm, Sir Max
Max Beerbohm
British humorist
Sir William Haley
British editor