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Colonel Blood & the Theft of the Crown Jewels
Colonel Thomas Blood, a known conspirator, made an infamous but unsuccessful attempt to steal the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671. Disguised as a clergyman, Blood and his gang swiped the royal regalia from under the...
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Colonel Thomas Blood
An early 19th-century illustration of 'Colonel' Thomas Blood (1618-80) who infamously tried and failed to steal the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.
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William Harvey's Discovery of Blood Circulation
The human body's system of blood circulation was discovered by the English physician and anatomist William Harvey (1578-1657) in 1628. Harvey determined the relationship between the blood system of arteries and veins and the regular contractions...
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Red Cloud
Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta, l. 1822-1909) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux chief, statesman, and military strategist who became the only Native American leader of the Plains Indians to win a war against the United States. Red Cloud's War (1866-1868...
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Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) was a conflict between the Lakota Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance and the US government over the westward expansion of the United States into the Powder River territory. It was the only war won by the Plains Indians...
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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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Saint Augustine in His Cell
Saint Augustine in His Cell by Sandro Botticelli, 1490-1494 CE.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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Eastman's Biography of Red Cloud
Eastman's biography of Red Cloud (l. 1822-1909) is the first narrative of his Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1916), and it sets the tone for those that follow, including the pieces on Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, in explaining the motivation...
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Northern Crusades
The Northern or Baltic Crusades were military campaigns organised by popes and western rulers to convert pagans to Christianity in the 12th to 15th century. Unlike in the Holy Land, where military campaigns were aimed at liberating former...
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The Trojan War ("Tainted Love" by Soft Cell)
Sorry, no Brad Pitt or Orlando Bloom, just Mrs. B and some black figure art.