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Perito Moreno Glacier

Learn about the formation of glaciers and how moraines, valleys, and lakes develop

glacier research

Learn how scientists use time-lapse photography to track movement and flow of glaciers

Hubbard Glacier

Gornergletscher (Gorner Glacier

Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier

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Glacier off coast of Argentina, South America. (glacial; snow; ice; blue ice; melting glacier)

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In late August 2016, sunlight returned to the Antarctic Peninsula and unveiled a rift across the Larsen C Ice Shelf that had grown longer and deeper over the austral winter

A Trillion Tonnes of Antarctica Fell into the Sea

Ash cloud rising from the Kilauea Volcano Pu`u `O `o as crater floor collapses due to magma withdrawal. Incandescent rubble can be seen crumbling and rolling down the scarp. East rim of Pu`u `O `o is in the foreground, Kilauea, Hawaii on March 6, 2011.

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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

Korean War - U.S. Marines watch explosions of bombs dropped by Marine Vought F4U Corsair fighter bomber planes during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Korea, in December 1950. soldiers

Korean War Timeline

July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

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Computer mapping, woman at early 1990s computer

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Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

Which Religion Is the Oldest?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Perito Moreno Glacier

Hubbard Glacier

Gornergletscher (Gorner Glacier

Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier

Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park

Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park

Learn about the formation of glaciers and how moraines, valleys, and lakes develop

glacier research

Learn how scientists use time-lapse photography to track movement and flow of glaciers

Examine glacial scratches on rocks from Switzerland to New York City for evidence of Earth's icy past

How greenhouse gases affect Earth's climate

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Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz

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Glacier off coast of Argentina, South America. (glacial; snow; ice; blue ice; melting glacier)

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