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Chinese dragon sculpture or statue.

10 Legendary Creatures from Around the World

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The starting line-up at the first ever Indianapolis 500 motor race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, 1911.

The First Indy 500: A Spectacular Start in 1911

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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

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Key People

Anatole Le Braz

Breton folklorist and author

Guido Delle Colonne

Italian author

János Mailáth, lithograph by J. Ruprecht.

János, Count Mailáth

Hungarian author

Joseph Bédier

French scholar

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Thomas Croker, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Thomas Crofton Croker

Irish antiquary