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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
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Prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) in mid-flight.
11 Questions About Birds Answered
Dead and wilted flowers hang limply.
Why Do Plants Wilt?
Hungry Pelican waiting to be fed, beak open, Australia
Why Don’t Birds Have Teeth?
Shoebill. A Shoebill Stork (Balaeniceps rex), aka 'Whalehead' standing in shallow marsh. Resides in tropical East Africa. A very large bird related to the storks. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill.
Funky Feathers: 10 Bizarre Birds
Tilled farmland. (farming, dirt, soil conservation)
Could We Lose All the Soil on Earth?
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Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson
Vietnam War Timeline
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
Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline
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
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
Sailboat against a beautiful landscape
Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?
Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles
Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?

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Born February 4, 1790 • New York
Died February 24, 1874 (aged 84) • Columbia • South Carolina • (Anniversary in 2 days)
Notable Works “The Birds of America” • “The Unity of the Human Race” • “Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Fairchild, David
David Fairchild
American botanist
James Mark Baldwin
American philosopher and psychologist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
George Alfred Leon Sarton
American scholar
Lewis Ralph Jones, c. 1940
Lewis Ralph Jones
American botanist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Jared Sparks
American publisher
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Dumas Malone
American historian, editor, and the author
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Arthur Young
English writer

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science