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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.
6 Wars of Independence
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
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
Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).
What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd
Causes of the Great Depression
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Born May 10, 1872 • Épinal • France
Died February 10, 1950 (aged 77) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study gift exchange • Melanesia • North America • Polynesia
Dumont d'Urville, engraving by Émile Lassalle after Maurin
Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville
French explorer
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
W. Lloyd Warner
American sociologist
C.G. Seligman
British anthropologist
Richard Thurnwald
German ethnologist
R.H. Codrington
British anthropologist and priest
Edward Westermarck
Finnish sociologist
W. H. R. Rivers
British anthropologist
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
British anthropologist
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim
French social scientist
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and anthropologist
Jean Baudrillard
French author and philosopher
Raymond Aron
French sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist and public intellectual
Henri de Tonty
French explorer
Guilluame-Thomas, abbé de Raynal, detail of an engraving by Nicolas Delaunay, 1780, after a drawing by Charles-Nicolas Cochin.
Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, abbé de Raynal
French author
Frédéric Le Play
French sociologist
Gabriel Tarde, c. 1899.
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist