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Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan

6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.

How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials

Time zone map with standard time zones and International Date Line

Why Are Some Time Zones 30 Minutes Off Instead of an Hour?

NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.

10 Great Sports Rivalries

Statue of Nostradamus

Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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?

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)

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axiom of choice axiom of separation postulate independence axiom of elementary sets axiom of extensionality axiom of infinity axiom of pairing axiom of power set axiom of restriction foundations of mathematics probability and statistics numerals and numeral systems matrix function fractal graph derivative algorithm vector

Key People

Euclid

Euclid

Greek mathematician

Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, 1966.

Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov

Russian mathematician

David Hilbert

David Hilbert

German mathematician

Hippocrates of Chios

Greek mathematician