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Tomb of Thomas Hobbes
The tomb of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). St John the Baptist Church, Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, England.

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Statue of Thomas Paine, Thetford
A statue of the Anglo-American philosopher Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Located in Paine's hometown of Thetford in Norfolk, England.

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Sir Thomas Fairfax on Horsback
An early 19th-century engraving of Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-71), the first commander of the Parliamentarian New Model Army during the English Civil Wars (1642-51). Attributed to Francis Engleheart. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

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General Thomas Gage
General Thomas Gage, who, in the early days of the American Revolution, served as commander-in-chief of all British armies in North America and as military governor of Massachusetts. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1788...

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Thomas Cavendish
A c. 1620 CE portrait of the Elizabethan mariner and privateer Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592 CE). Cavendish famously circumnavigated the globe in 1586-88 CE, only the third such voyage at that point. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Thomas Hutchinson
Portrait of Thomas Hutchinson, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the leadup to the American Revolution. Painting by Edward Truman, 1741.
Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Bourges Cathedral
Bourges Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, is a Gothic cathedral located in Bourges, Le Cher, central France. Built from 1195 to 1245, the cathedral is one of the largest in Europe and contains many magnificent stained glass windows which...

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Autobiography of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
The Autobiography of Saint Ignatius is the story of the life of Ignatius of Loyola (l. 1491-1556) dictated by him to the Jesuit priest Father Louis Gonzalez between 1553-1555, shortly before Loyola's death in 1556. It is an account of his...

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Thomas Blood Stealing the Crown Jewels
A 1793 illustration by T. Simpson showing Colonel Blood and his gang stealing the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671. Blood was soon captured and the regalia returned.

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Michael II
Michael II the Amorion, also known as Michael “the Stammerer”, was emperor of the Byzantine Empire between 820 and 829 CE. He founded the short-lived Amorion dynasty, named after his hometown in Phrygia, which would last until 867 CE. Surviving...