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Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

Happy, smiling, flying pig

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.

9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals

NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.

10 Great Sports Rivalries

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

Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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Abahai

In Abahai
…military machine known as the Eight Banners. After four expeditions he finally occupied the formerly Chinese-controlled Amur region of northern Manchuria and three times broke through the Great Wall on raids into North China.
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Yongzheng

In Yongzheng
…princes from control of the Eight Banners, the major Qing military units. When the Yongzheng emperor ascended the throne, three of the Eight Banners were controlled directly by the throne, but the rest were under the rule of Qing princes. Fearing that they could use this control for personal advantage—as…
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