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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
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
Sailboat against a beautiful landscape
Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?
January 21, 2019: Superbowl LIII will be played at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, February 3, 2019 against the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams.
What Was the Super Bowl’s First Blockbuster Commercial?
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
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
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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Born November 3, 1801 • Essen • Germany
Died October 4, 1859 (aged 57) • Koblenz • Prussia
Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet
British publisher
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Mathias Döpfner
German businessman
Thomas Middelhoff
German businessman
Baron von Reuter
Paul Julius, baron von Reuter
German journalist
Stinnes, Hugo
Hugo Stinnes
German industrialist
Anna Sartorius Uhl Ottendorfer
German-American publisher and philanthropist
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author
Matthäus Merian
Swiss artist [1593-1650]
Christopher Sower
American printer
Christian August Vulpius
German author
Johann Froben
Swiss printer
Theodor de Bry
Flemish-German engraver
August Leopold Crelle
German mathematician and engineer
Johann Fust
German printer
Axel Springer
German publisher
Johann Elert Bode
German astronomer
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
German publisher