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6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

Artist interpretation of space asteroids impacting earth and moon. Meteoroids, meteor impact, end of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Doomsday Predictions, comet

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Nelson Mandela, undated photo.

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Charles Nègre

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Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, albumen silver print from wet-collodion glass negative by Gustave Le Gray, c. 1856; in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Gustave Le Gray

French photographer

Robert Adamson

Scottish photographer

David Octavius Hill

Scottish painter

William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot

British chemist, linguist, and photographer