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First Lady Julia Tyler

First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler, the second wife of US President John Tyler, c. 1850-60. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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First Glimpse of Petra's Treasury from the Siq

The first glimpse of Petra's Treasury (Al-Khazneh) upon exiting the Siq. The famous façade, known today as the Treasury, was originally a rock-cut tomb with a two-story façade, 24.9 m wide and almost 40 m high. Both stories are embellished...

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First Spring Flowers by Gauguin

An 1888 oil on canvas, First Spring Flowers, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Back in France after his visit to the Caribbean, the artist has returned to a more impressionist palette and style but uses his...

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First Pompeian Style Fresco in Pella

Interior wall of a house in Pella, Macedonia with coloured plaster in the First Pompeian Style, 2nd century BCE.

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First Medical X-Ray

The bones of a hand with a ring on one finger, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W. K. Röntgen, 1895. Wellcome Collection.

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First Page of Brousson's Letters

Lettres et opuscules de feu Monsr. Brousson, ministre & martyr du St. Evangile : avec un abrege de sa vie... by Claude Brousson (1647-1698), G. Vande Water (Utrecht), 1701. National Library of France, Paris.

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First Peoples Australia

When Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between the First...

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First performance of the reproduction Hydraulis Organ at Bath

Alexander Henshaw plays the reproduction Roman Hydraulis, assisted by designer Richard Ellam. The apparently authentic tune is 'Aulos et Hydraulis' by German ensemble Musica Romana. The water in the chamber holds back a smoothly-regulated...

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Map of the First Crusade Routes

"This map shows the main routes taken by those who joined the First Crusade. The appeal was made by Pope Urban II in November 1095 CE but crusaders did not set out until the following summer. One route went through Hungary crossing the Byzantine...

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Map of the First Crusade, 1096 - 1099

The First Crusade (1096–1099) marked the beginning of a series of military campaigns launched by Western European Christians in response to Pope Urban II's appeal at the Council of Clermont (1095). The goal was to recapture Jerusalem and...