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Seven Years' War - Summary on a Map
Let's retrace on an animated map a summary of the Seven Years' War, often called World War Zero.
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Knight Battling the Seven Sins
A 13th century CE illustration of a knight about to battle the Seven Deadly Sins. From the Summa Vitiorum or "Treatise on the Vices" by William Peraldus.
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Portrait of Seven Notable Greek Physicians & Botanists
An illustration of seven noted physicians and botanists from ancient Greece in the Vienna Dioscurides(aka the Juliana Anicia Codex), a 6th Century CE Byzantine manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscurides (c. 40 - 90 CE). The illustration...
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Seven Kings Laying Siege to Kushinagara
This scene shows seven kings marching towards the city of Kushinagara to lay siege to it. The kings are distinguished by their royal umbrellas and attendants with flying whisks standing or seated behind them. The city with its high walls...
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Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother
Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother, stained glass by Dirck Vellert, Antwerp, c. 1530-35.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Seven Mesopotamian Agate Duck-weights
These weights are in the range of 8.7 to 24.7 grams, roughly between 1 and 3 Babylonian shekels. Weights had been made in this characteristic duck-shape since around 2000 BCE. From Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 700-500 BCE. (The British...
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Shinto
Shinto means 'way of the gods' and it is the oldest religion in Japan. Shinto's key concepts include purity, harmony, family respect, and subordination of the individual before the group. The faith has no founder or prophets and there is...
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Tarsus
Tarsus was a city in ancient Cilicia located in the modern-day province of Mersin, Turkey. It is one of the oldest continually inhabited urban centers in the world, dating back to the Neolithic Period. It was built close by the Cydnus River...
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Feature History - Seven Years' War
Hello and welcome to Feature History, featuring the Seven Years' War, an overdue video, and the reason you don't record after just waking up. The credit for this video goes to Feature History's employee of the month, me, for the art...
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Juvenal
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (l. c. 55-138 CE), better known as Juvenal, was a Roman satirist. He wrote five books, containing 16 satires, each of which criticized a different element of Roman society, whether it was poor housing, the patron/client...