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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)
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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
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Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
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The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.
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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)
Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?
Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.
10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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Born March 7, 1746 • France
Died November 13, 1802 (aged 56) • Toamasina • Madagascar
Subjects Of Study North America • plant
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
Antoine de Jussieu
French botanist and physician
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
John Bartram
American naturalist
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist
Bernard de Jussieu, detail from an engraving
Bernard de Jussieu
French botanist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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