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Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

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illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

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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Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

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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)

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Born	1699 • Paris • France
Died	1777 (aged 78) • Paris • France

Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin

French author

Lady Ottoline Morrell

English patroness

Cardinal Richelieu

French cardinal and statesman

Louis XIV

king of France

Henry IV

king of France

Francis I

king of France

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Eleanor of Aquitaine

queen consort of France and England

Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour

French aristocrat

Margaret of Angoulême

French queen consort and poet

Jean de France, duc de Berry

French prince

Madeleine de Scudéry

French novelist

Madame du Deffand, engraving by Forshel after a portrait by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

French author

David, Jacques-Louis: Portrait of Madame Récamier

Madame de Récamier

French patroness

Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron

French scientist

Ninon de Lenclos

French courtesan

Jean Grolier de Servières, vicomte d’Aguisy

French bibliophile

Madame d'Agoult, detail of a portrait by Henri Lehmann; in a private collection

Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult

French author

Mme d'Épinay, detail of a pastel by Jean Étienne Liotard, c. 1759; in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva

Louise-Florence-Pétronille Tardieu d’Esclavelles, dame de la Live d’Épinay

French author

Julie de Lespinasse

French writer

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