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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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What is Holy Week?

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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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9 Mind-Altering Plants

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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Benjamin Cardozo

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

United States jurist

Plimsoll, Samuel

Samuel Plimsoll

British politician and social reformer

John Scott Haldane, drawing by Tom van Oss, 1930; in a private collection

John Scott Haldane

British physiologist

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Bernardino Ramazzini

Italian medical professor