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Mesopotamian Religion. Cuneiform tablet in the British Museum, London, England, 7th Century BC, describing the Flood Epic, a deluge story in the Epic of Gilgamesh added as Tablet XI to the ten original tablets of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who copied or altered parts of the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis. (flood tablet, Neo Assyrian, clay tablet)

What Was the First Book Ever Written?

A large school of mano (sharks) called Galapagos sharks at Maro Reef in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis)a worldwide species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae.

Saving Sharks in the 2020s

What Makes a Species Endangered?

Screen with https for internet security. (encryption, privacy, websites)

Inventions that Helped Shape How We Interact with Knowledge and Information

vintage Leica photo camera at KPI Museum, July 24, 2015, in Kiev, Ukraine

Street Photography: How a Single Camera Brought About a Genre

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Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer

Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics

10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Also Known As	Nancy Wynne
Born	May 9, 1908 • Lynn • Massachusetts
Died	July 7, 1974 (aged 66) • Jackson • Wyoming
Notable Works	“This Is the American Earth”
Notable Family Members	spouse Beaumont Newhall
Subjects Of Study	conservation

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Charles Dudley Warner

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Carl Sandburg

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Leon Edel

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Virginia Kirkus

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Robert Pinsky

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Brendan Gill

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John Hope Franklin

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Alfred Einstein

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Reed Whittemore

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S.S. Van Dine

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Oscar Sonneck

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Dudley Fitts

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John Bartlett

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Jared Sparks

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Dumas Malone

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Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Sidney Colvin

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Samuel Johnson

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Stendhal

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