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Rock Drawings of Valcamonica
The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90 km in the Italian provinces of Brescia and Bergamo in Lombardy. The name...
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Nativity of Jesus
The nativity of Jesus of Nazareth is told in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. In Christian theology, the existence of two nativity stories by two different writers provided a prooftext for the historicity of the event. However, the two versions...
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The Death of David 'Davy' Crockett at the Alamo - José Enrique de la Peña's Account of the Surrender
The death of David 'Davy' Crockett at the Battle of the Alamo (6 March 1836) has been understood as a heroic last stand at least since 1880 when Texan historian Reuben M. Potter dismissed eyewitness accounts that Crockett had surrendered...
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Early Explorers of the Maya Civilization: From Aguilar to Waldek
Although John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood are consistently credited with the `discovery' of the Maya Civilization, there were many who preceded them who sparked their interest in making their famous travels through Mesoamerica...
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Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1792
Napoleon Bonaparte, at the age of 23 in 1792, just after winning election to the lieutenant colonelcy of the Corsican National Guard, posthumous portrait by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1835, and is thus a posthumous portrait of Napoleon...
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Modern Chinampa Farming
Man preparing the soil to plant, photograph by Emmanuel Eslava, Mexico, 23 September 2015. A man prepares the land of a chinampa for sowing. The chinampa raised farming technique can be identified by the posts that separate the arable land...
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What is the Third Estate?
What is the Third Estate? was a seminal pamphlet written by Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sièyes (1748-1836) in the months preceding the Estates-General of 1789. The pamphlet argues that the Third Estate (commoners) constitutes an entire nation itself...
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Last Supper of the Girondins
Last Supper of the Girondins, on 30 October 1793, the night before their executions, oil on canvas by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, c. 1850.
Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille.
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Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli
Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli (14 January 1797) during Napoleon's Italian Campaign, oil on canvas by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1844.
Palace of Versailles.
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British Squares Halt the French Cavalry Charge at Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers (18 June 1815), oil on canvas by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1874.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.