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Zanni (Harlequin, left, and probably Scapin, right) with Pantaloon (centre), detail from The Gelosi Company, 1580; in the Drottningholm Theatre Museum, Stockholm.

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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15 Questions About Units of Measurement Answered

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

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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

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Zanni (Harlequin, left, and probably Scapin, right) with Pantaloon (centre), detail from The Gelosi Company, 1580; in the Drottningholm Theatre Museum, Stockholm.

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