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Gustave Courbet: The Painter's Studio

The School of Athens

Nicolas Poussin: St. John on Patmos

Peter Paul Rubens: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

François Boucher: The Toilet of Venus

Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening

Eugène Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapalus

Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

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Nicolas Poussin: St. John on Patmos

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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

Paul Revere. "The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.," engraved by Paul Revere. Boston Massacre.

There’s a Riot Goin’ On: Riots in U.S. History (Part One)

Lake Mead (the impounded Colorado River) at the Hoover Dam. The light-coloured band of rock above the shoreline shows the decrease in water level in the first few years of the 21st century.

6 Lakes That Are Drying Up

NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.

10 Great Sports Rivalries

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

Estimated battle casualties, Normandy invasion, World War II. WWII, D-Day

Estimated Battle Casualties During the Normandy Invasion and Campaign to Liberate Paris (June–August 1944)

San Francisco, California/USA-1/18/20: Womens March at Civic Center marching with signs of political protest regarding equality also embracing 2020 presidential candidates and celebrating equality

How Does the U.S. Government Define the Difference Between a Protest and a Riot?

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Gustave Courbet: The Painter's Studio

The School of Athens

Nicolas Poussin: St. John on Patmos

Peter Paul Rubens: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

François Boucher: The Toilet of Venus

Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening

Eugène Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapalus

Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

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Ada Louise Huxtable

American architecture critic

Edmond Goncourt

French author

Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

Jules Goncourt

French author

Sidney Colvin

English scholar

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Molière

Molière

French dramatist

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French author

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

English writer and artist

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz

French composer

Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.

Stendhal

French author

English novelist Jane Austen

Jane Austen

English novelist

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Émile Zola.

Émile Zola

French author

Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian-born artist

Ghiberti, Lorenzo

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Italian sculptor

William Morris

British artist and author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

American artist