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

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Shadow of a man holding large knife in his hand inside of some dark, spooky buiding

7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained

The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives receiving a deputation of female suffragists, January 11, 1871, a lady delegate (identified as Victoria Woodhull) reading her argument (cont'd)

Who Was the First Woman to Run for President of the United States?

The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

What If the President Is Impeached?

The Border Trilogy

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“All the Pretty Horses”

In All the Pretty Horses: Characters and summary
…first novel in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, centers on John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old cowboy old enough to choose his way of life but too young to realize this choice in the face of familial and institutional resistance. When John’s mother sells the family ranch outside San Angelo, Texas, John…
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discussed in biography

In Cormac McCarthy: The Border Trilogy
…is the first volume of The Border Trilogy, in which the border between Mexico and the United States serves as a metaphor for the borderland between progress and dehumanization and between history and myth. Influenced in style more by Ernest Hemingway than by Faulkner, All the Pretty Horses is the…
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