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Old Erie Canal
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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Black widow spider
9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders
Calendar showing the month of February
Why Are There Only 28 Days in February?
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
Communism - mosaic hammer and sickle with star on the Pavilion of Ukraine at the All Russia Exhibition Centre (also known as VDNKh) in Moscow. Communist symbol of the former Soviet Union. USSR
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?
Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere
Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?
Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.
9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals

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Born July 22, 1763 • near Carlisle • Pennsylvania
Died August 19, 1838 (aged 75) • New York

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Old Erie Canal
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John Rennie
Scottish civil engineer
Erie Canal
Benjamin Wright
American engineer
Jervis, John Bloomfield: Stourbridge Lion
John Bloomfield Jervis
American engineer
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Scottish engineer
Smeaton, detail of an engraving by W. Bromley, 1798, after a portrait by J. Brown
John Smeaton
British engineer
Canal du Midi
Pierre-Paul, Baron Riquet de Bonrepos
French engineer
James Brindley
James Brindley
British engineer
Emiland-Marie Gauthey
French engineer
Julius Rosenberg
American engineer and spy
August Belmont, Jr.
American banker
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Roebling, Emily Warren
Emily Warren Roebling
American socialite, builder, and businesswoman
Panama Canal: Miraflores Locks
John Frank Stevens
American engineer
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton
American politician
Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute
American engineer
Engineer Gustav Lindenthal (second from right) and his chief assistant, Othmar Ammann (second from left), posing upon the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, 1916.
Othmar Herman Ammann
American engineer
Washington Augustus Roebling, 1870
Washington Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist