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After a perfect launch, spectators try to catch a last glimpse of Space Shuttle Columbia, barely visible at the top end of the twisted column of smoke.

7 Accidents and Disasters in Spaceflight History

Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.

U.S. Death Toll During Major Events

Lead image for "A Timeline of the World in 8 Maps"

A Timeline of the World in 8 Maps

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12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Moonrise over Tucson, Arizona

Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?

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

Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

mestnichestvo

Russian history

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abolition by Fyodor III

In Fyodor III
…undertaken, and the system of mestnichestvo, by which a noble was appointed to a service position on the basis of his family’s rank in the hierarchy of boyars, was abolished (1682).
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