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Irish Hero Fionn mac Cumhaill Fights Aillen
Aillen, a sídh warrior, is said to have destroyed Tara, the spiritual center of Ireland and the seat of the High Kings, each and every Samhain for nine years. He is slain by Fionn mac Cumhaill, who pierces...
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Goodyear Vulcanised Rubber
An advertisement for Goodyear rubber tyres from 1920. Vulcanised rubber was invented by Charles Goodyear (1800-60) in the United States in 1839 and patented in 1844. Rubber had long been used for its flexibility and softness...
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Samoset
Samoset (c. 1590–1653 CE) walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting the colonists in English.
Image from page 155 of "Young folks' history of the United States" (1903 CE)
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Amarna Letters
The Amarna Letters are a group of correspondences exchanged between the rulers of the Ancient Near East and Egypt. The tablets cover the reigns of the rulers Amenhotep III, Akhenaten and possibly Smenkhkare or Tutankhamen, of the...
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Festivities at Merrymount
Image from page 496 of "A popular history of the United States: from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states; preceded by a sketch of the...
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Ruins of Jamestown after Bacon's Rebellion
Ruins of Jamestown, 1676. Illustration from page 45 of A School History of the United States, from the Discovery of America to the Year 1878 by David B. Scott, New York, Harper & brothers, 1879 CE. The engraving...
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Jamestown Massacre, 1622
The Great Massacre, illustration from page 237 of An illustrated history of the New world: containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ... and a complete history...
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Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, by Gibbon, Edward, London, 1777.
John Adams Library (Boston Public Library)
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Thorvald, Son of Erik the Red, is Killed
Artist's rendition of the story from the Vinland Sagas in which the Viking Thorvald, brother of Leif Erikson and son of Erik the Red, encounters natives in North America while on expedition there, and dies...
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The Murder of Anne Hutchinson
Massacre of Anne Hutchinson, illustration from page 530 of A popular history of the United States: from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of...