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In 1850, one of America's History's Worst Laws was Passed: The Fugitive Slave Act. What can be described as one of the darkest days in America’s history, which would ultimately lead to the American Civil War, a bloody conflict that saw hundreds...

Black Elk (also known as Nicholas Black Elk, l. 1863-1950) photographed here with his daughter, Lucy Black Elk, and wife Anna Brings White, in their home in Manderson, South Dakota, c. 1910. Denver Public Library Special Collections

An artist's impression of how the Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts, aka 'Black Bart' Roberts (c. 1682-1722) may have looked. Roberts was one of the most successful pirates of the so-called Golden Age of Piracy. He was killed resisting arrest...

Two British postage stamps bearing the portrait of Queen Victoria (reign 1837-1901). The Penny Black was the world's first postage stamp and issued from May 1840. As it was difficult to see an obliteration stamp (postmark) against a black...

An envelope with a Penny Black stamp attached. The first postage stamp, the Penny Black was introduced in Britain in May 1840.

With 7600 perimeter miles (12,231 km), the Scythians roamed and ruled over an astonishing 1.5 million mi² (2.4 million km²) of territory between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE. Although building an empire was never in their interest, Scythian...

A map illustrating the spread of the Black Death plague from its origins in central Asia to western and then central Europe, 1347-1352 CE.

The citizens of Tournai, Belgium, burying the dead during the Black Death of 1347-52 CE.

The tournament helmet and shield of Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376 CE) now held in Canterbury Cathedral.

The memorial plaque from the 1902 monument commemorating the victims of the Black Hole of Calcutta incident in 1756. St John's Churchyard, Kolkata, India.