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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.

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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.)

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Hemp (Cannabis sativa).

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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.

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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.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Italian composer

Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin

Russian writer and composer

portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais

Arthur Sullivan

British composer

Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill

German-American composer

Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.

Johannes Ewald

Danish poet

W.S. Gilbert

British playwright

Offenbach, Jacques

Jacques Offenbach

French composer

Emmerich Kálmán

Hungarian composer

John Philip Sousa.

John Philip Sousa

American composer

Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt

American singer

Marie Tempest

Marie Tempest

British actress

Pauline Viardot

French singer

Ludovic Halévy

French author

Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Charles Dibdin

British composer, author, actor and manager

Strauss, Johann, the Younger

Johann Strauss II

Austrian composer

Antônio José da Silva

Portuguese writer

Fay Templeton, 1895.

Fay Templeton

American singer and actress

Victor Herbert, 1906

Victor Herbert

American composer

Sigmund Romberg

American composer

Rudolf Friml, c. 1932

Rudolf Friml

American composer

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