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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

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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

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

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.

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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

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Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life

St. Francis of Assisi

Italian saint

Philo Judaeus

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedish philosopher

St. Ignatius of Loyola

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Spanish saint

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

French abbot

Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

Joachim Of Fiore

Italian theologian

Jakob Böhme

Jakob Böhme

German mystic

Baʿal Shem Ṭov

Polish rabbi

St. Bonaventure

Saint Bonaventure

Italian theologian

Meister Eckhart

German theologian and mystic

St. Gregory of Nyssa

Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Byzantine philosopher and theologian

Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna

Hindu religious leader

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

French mystic

Ibn al-ʿArabī

Muslim mystic

Meher Baba

Indian religious leader

Mystic with ties to the throne

Grigori Rasputin

Russian mystic

St. Teresa of Ávila

St. Teresa of Ávila

Spanish mystic

Ramon Llull.

Ramon Llull

Catalan mystic

Gerson, engraving

Jean de Gerson

French theologian