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Maya Spouted Jar
This spouted vessel is one of the most elegantly sculpted stone containers in the corpus of Maya art. Its form with the vertical spout parallel to the central axis of the main chamber is known from the late 1st millennium B.C. and is especially...
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The Orange Trees by Caillebotte
An 1878 oil on canvas, The Orange Trees (aka The Artist's Brother in His Garden) by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. The subject here is Martial, the artist's younger brother with whom he later shared a house...
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Pieces of Eight from the Whydah
A quantity of silver pieces of eight taken from the Whydah shipwreck. The ship was captained by the pirate Samuel Bellamy, aka ‘Black Sam’ Bellamy, who died in the wreck off Cape Cod in 1717. The wreck was re-discovered in 1984. (Image taken...
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Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice by Canaletto
A c. 1730 oil on canvas painting, Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, by the Italian artist Canaletto (1697-1768). (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
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Traces Through Time: Natchez Trace Parkway
Journey along the Natchez Trace Parkway, which winds 444 miles from the southern Appalachian foothills of Tennessee through the emerald forests of Alabama to the bayous and swamps of Mississippi. It roughly follows the "Old Natchez Trace,"...
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The First Ghost Stories | Dr. Irving Finkel
Learn how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time. Discover how the oldest known writing, in cuneiform script on tablets of clay, gives us a full picture of the ancient Mesopotamian ghost experience: who might...
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RMS Titanic
The RMS Titanic was a White Star Line ocean liner, which sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 15 April 1912. Over 1,500 men, women, and children lost their lives. There were 705 survivors. In...
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Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane was a single-seat fighter plane, Britain's first monoplane, which fought in the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. Slower but more numerous than the Supermarine Spitfire, the Hurricane was used by the Royal Air...
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Anglo-Mysore Wars
The Four Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799) were fought between the British East India Company (EIC) and the state of Mysore. Haidar Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore", were relentless foes to British expansion in southern India...
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Aryan
Aryan is a designation originally meaning “civilized”, “noble”, or “free” without reference to any ethnicity. It was first applied as a self-identifying term by a migratory group of people from Central Asia later known as Indo-Iranians (who...