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Olduvai Gorge or Olduwai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa (eastern Serengeti Plain) Where fossil remains of more than 60 hominins provides the most continuous known record of human evolution. Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey made discoveries here. Archaeology
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Namib desert, Namibia.
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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.)
7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England
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July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.
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Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.
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Titanic infographic. The 30th anniversary of its discovery is September 1, 2015. SPOTLIGHT VERSION.
Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours
Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,
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Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)
The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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Born 1908
Died May 19, 1944 (aged 36)
Subjects Of Study Africa • social change
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Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
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Sir Alfred Sharpe
British colonial administrator
Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes
prime minister of Cape Colony
Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda
president of Malawi
First president of Malawi
Hastings Kamuzu Banda
president of Malawi
Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
John Chilembwe
Nyasaland leader
Max Gluckman
South African anthropologist
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
Henri Tajfel
Polish-born British social psychologist
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish-born British anthropologist
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
British anthropologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Sir Hercules Robinson
Sir Hercules Robinson
British colonial governor
Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
British anthropologist
C.G. Seligman
British anthropologist
Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist
R.H. Codrington
British anthropologist and priest