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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Data analysis of the Super Bowl's "winningest" teams, game locations, MVP winners by position, teams with the most game losses. football, sports, infographic
From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl
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
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
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 January 17, 1812 • Germany
Died March 14, 1891 (aged 79) • Berlin • Germany
Title / Office Reichstag (1867), Germany
Founder Centre Party
Political Affiliation Centre Party

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Franz von Papen
Franz von Papen
German statesman
Brüning, Heinrich
Heinrich Brüning
German statesman
Erzberger, Matthias
Matthias Erzberger
German politician
Wirth, Joseph
Joseph Wirth
chancellor of Germany
Georg, count von Hertling
Georg, count von Hertling
German statesman
Fehrenbach, Konstantin
Konstantin Fehrenbach
German chancellor
Marx, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Marx
German statesman
Ludwig von Gerlach, lithograph
Ludwig von Gerlach
Prussian politician and editor
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
Frederick I during the Crusades
Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann
chancellor of Germany
Henry IV
Henry IV
Holy Roman emperor
“Queen of Europe”
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany
Louis IV
Holy Roman emperor