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Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

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Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.

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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

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Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

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

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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

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psychrophile mesophile polyextremophile xerophile piezophile hyperthermophile thermophile halophile alkaliphile acidophile virus plankton biological soil crust benthos nekton eukaryote prokaryote multicellular organism plant fungus

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greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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