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Charles Darwin, carbon print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
What Darwin Got Right (and Wrong) About Evolution
Orange basketball on black background and with low key lighting. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time
pyramid sunset, egypt
What’s Inside the Great Pyramid?
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
Sergeant Stubby or also known as Mascot Stubby. Unofficial mascot dog of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the United States with the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. War dog. Possibly a Boston terrier - also sometimes described as a Boston bull terrier
8 Famous Animals
number zero, 0 balloon
Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?
Encyclopaedia Britannica First Edition: Volume 1, Plate XXXVIII, Figure 2, Ark, Ark of the Covenant, a small chest, coffer, contains Aaron's rod, manna pot, tables of covenant, Schechinah, Divine Presence, oracle, shittim-wood, acacia tree
Where Is the Ark of the Covenant?

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Born January 12, 1892 • Gouda • Netherlands
Died October 20, 1958 (aged 66) • Haarlem • Netherlands
S.H. de Roos
Dutch typographer
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
William Morris
British artist and author
Jan Tschichold
German typographer and author
Eric Gill
British artist and printer
Times New Roman
Stanley Morison
English typographer
Giovanni Mardersteig
Italian printer
Bodoni, engraving
Giambattista Bodoni
Italian printer
William Caslon
English printer
Fraktur fonts
Rudolf Koch
German artist
Bruce Rogers
American typographer
Walker, Emery: Brooks's in the Olden Time
Sir Emery Walker
English printer
Goudy, Frederic W.
Frederic W. Goudy
American printer and typographer
W.A. Dwiggins
American artist
Simon de Colines
French printer
Cassandre
French graphic artist
Nicolas Jenson
French printer
Pierre-Simon Fournier
French engraver
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
British book designer
Claude Garamond
French publisher