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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.
Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?
Titanic infographic. The 30th anniversary of its discovery is September 1, 2015. SPOTLIGHT VERSION.
Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours
Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).
What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?
Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
What is Holy Week?
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
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

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Born June 26, 1888 • Switzerland
Died January 13, 1953 (aged 64) • Zürich • Switzerland
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René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Albert Wallace Hull
American physicist
Paul Scherrer
Swiss physicist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
Max von Laue
German physicist
John Desmond Bernal
Irish physicist
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Bertram Eugene Warren
American crystallographer
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, 1948
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
British chemist
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
Charles Mauguin
French mineralogist
Franz Ernst Neumann
German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist