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The Booth brothers, Winter Garden Theater, 25 November 1864. John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, and Junius Brutus Booth Jr. pose during a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. John Wilkes Booth (left) would assassinate US President Abraham...

Imhotep (Greek name, Imouthes, c. 2667-2600 BCE) was an Egyptian polymath (a person expert in many areas of learning) best known as the architect of King Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara. His name means "He Who Comes in Peace" and he is the...

The great temples and monuments of ancient Egypt continue to fascinate and amaze people in the modern day. The sheer size and scope of structures like the Great Pyramid at Giza or the Temple of Amun at Karnak or the Colossi of Memnon are...

Sheets of the Westcar Papyrus, Egyptian, date disputed. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

The London Medical Papyrus (c. 1629 BCE) is among the oldest medical texts in the world.

The papyrus contains the text of the 2nd "Book of Breathing". It was written in hieratic script. From Thebes, Egypt. Roman, reign of Hadrian, circa 127 CE. (The British Museum, London).

The Muir portrait of the Scottish philosopher and economic theorist Adam Smith (1723-1790). Painted c. 1800 by an unknown artist. (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh)

A statue of Adam Smith (1723-1790) the Scottish philosopher and economist in Edinburgh. Sculpted in bronze by Alexander Stoddar.

Statue of Captain John Smith (l. 1580-1631 CE), English explorer, soldier, author, and early governor of the Jamestown Colony of Virginia between 1607-1609 CE, in Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown, Virginia.

An 1845 portrait bust by Patric Park of Adam Smith (1723-1790) the Scottish philosopher and economist. (Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow)