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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.

U.S. Death Toll During Major Events

Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

A mug shot taken by the regional Colombia control agency in Medellin

Pablo Escobar: 8 Interesting Facts About the King of Cocaine

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Moonrise over Tucson, Arizona

Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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crop production agricultural sciences forestry gardening horticulture agricultural economics arboriculture pedology floriculture animal husbandry viticulture plant hardiness zones

Key People

Edward Murray East

American scientist

Trofim Lysenko

Trofim Lysenko

Soviet biologist and agronomist

Jethro Tull, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Royal Society for Agriculture, London

Jethro Tull

British agronomist and inventor

Donald Forsha Jones

American agronomist

Ekeblad, Eva

Eva Ekeblad

Swedish aristocrat and agronomist

Jared Eliot

American colonial clergyman

Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet

English agronomist