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An aerial view of the Auschwitz I part of the complex of labour and extermination camps in Poland known as Auschwitz. Over one million people died in this complex at the hands of the Nazi SS. Auschwitz was one of the main instruments of the...

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), photographed by Harris & Ewing, Inc., c. 1905-15. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Penobscot County, Maine, USA. Illustration from What to see in America by Clifton Johnson, 1919.

Glooscap monument, Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia. Photograph by Madereugeneandrew, 2019.

The Penobscot River viewed from the Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory at Prospect, Maine, USA, (just below Bucksport) as it empties in the Penobscot Bay (visible in the distance) at Stockton Springs, ME. Verona Island is on the left and...

Graves of Olivia Langdon Clemens and Mark Twain at Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York.

In the late 8th century CE, the interconnected caravan routes later termed the “Silk Road” formed a transcontinental system linking East Asia, Central Asia, the Islamic world, and parts of Europe. The label “Silk Road” (German: Seidenstraße...

Still from the American film Huckleberry Finn (1920) with Katherine Griffith, Lewis Sargent, and Edythe Chapman, illustration from page 64 of the Exhibitors Herald, 10 April 1920.

Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), wife of Mark Twain, photographed in 1869. The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) left, part of the Brady-Handy photograph collection, photographed on 7 Feb 1871. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.