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25 Famous Paintings to See the Next Time You’re in Florence

Mesopotamian Religion. Cuneiform tablet in the British Museum, London, England, 7th Century BC, describing the Flood Epic, a deluge story in the Epic of Gilgamesh added as Tablet XI to the ten original tablets of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who copied or altered parts of the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis. (flood tablet, Neo Assyrian, clay tablet)

What Was the First Book Ever Written?

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History of Technology Timeline

Madonna and Child Enthroned by Gentile da Fabriano, tempera on panel, c. 1420, 95.7 x 56.5 cm

Beautiful Gibberish: Fake Arabic in Medieval and Renaissance Art

Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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Holi: Festival of Colors

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David Cameron. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom talk during the G8 Summit at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013

What’s the Difference Between a President and a Prime Minister?

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Born	c.1480 • Bourges • France
Died	c.1533 • Paris • France
Movement / Style	Renaissance art • Renaissance
Subjects Of Study	orthography

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Simon de Colines

French printer

Nicolas Jenson

French printer

William Morris

British artist and author

Stanley Morison

English typographer

Giambattista Bodoni

Italian printer

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Sir Emery Walker

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John Baskerville

English printer

Sir Francis Meynell

English designer

Daniel Berkeley Updike

American printer and publisher

S.H. de Roos

Dutch typographer

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson

British book designer

Hans Baldung

German artist

Ambroise-Firmin Didot

French printer and typesetter

Pierre François Didot

French publisher and printer

Firmin Didot

French printer and typesetter

Henri II Estienne

French scholar and printer

Title page to the Biblia, showing olive-tree motif adopted as Estienne family emblem, 1532

Robert I Estienne

French scholar and printer

Christophe Plantin

French printer

Josquin des Prez

French-Flemish composer

Jean Mone

French sculptor

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