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Battle of Tourcoing, Second Day
A depiction of the second day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 18 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022, superimposed on OpenStreetMap.
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Summer's Day by Morisot
An 1879 oil on canvas painting, Summer's Day, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. This is a scene of the artificial boating lake in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, then a popular weekend spot for the capital's fashionable...
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Battle of Tourcoing, First Day
A depiction of the first day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 17 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022; superimposed on OpenStreetMap.
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Labelled map of Mari, modern-day Tell Hariri, Syria
A satellite photograph of the site of Tell Hariri, Syria. Tell Hariri is the site of the ancient city of Mari, which, at various times from c. 3000 BCE - c. 1760 BCE, controlled large portions of Northern Mesopotamia. The photograph has been...
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Modern-day Statue of Melusine, Luxembourg
A modern statue of Melusine by Serge Ecker in Luxembourg.
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Troy, New York, in the Present Day
Panoramic view of downtown Troy, New York, United States, taken from the Congress Street Bridge. In 1860, Harriet Tubman liberated Charles Nalle from slavery in Troy.
Photograph by Matt H. Wade, 2009.
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Fetterman Massacre
Study of the Fetterman Fight, a modern-day depiction of the battle of 21 December 1866 during Red Cloud's War, by Kim Douglas Wiggins.
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The Qingming Festival: Chinese Tomb Sweeping Day
The Qingming Festival is held one hundred and four days after the winter solstice, and is known as the ‘pure bright festival’, ‘tomb-sweeping day’ and ‘ancestors day’. For over 2,500 years, this festival has been a day for Chinese people...
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Massacre at La Salpêtrière, 3 September 1792
Image depicting the murder of 40 women accused of prostitution in the women's prison of La Salpêtrière in the September Massacres, during the French Revolution. By an anonymous author, c. 1793.
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Sioux Chief Two Strike (Eastman's Biography)
Two Strike (Numpkahapa/Nomkahpa, l. c. 1831-1915) was a Lakota Sioux chief of the Brule band, who fought against the US military consistently from Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) through the Great Sioux War (1876-1877) and was present at the...