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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

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

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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

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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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

An Education

film by Scherfig [2009]

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Hornby

In Nick Hornby: Projects for film and TV
…screenplay for the 2009 film An Education, which was based on a Granta magazine essay by British journalist Lynn Barber. Hornby received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. He also wrote the screenplays for the films Wild (2014), based on Cheryl Strayed’s inspirational memoir about hiking the Pacific…
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Mulligan

In Carey Mulligan
…Greatest and the coming-of-age story An Education. In the latter movie her luminous portrayal of a teenage girl who is seduced by a man in his 30s earned an Academy Award nomination and drew comparisons to Audrey Hepburn. Mulligan then played the daughter of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Oliver…
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Thompson

In Emma Thompson
…1960s England: the coming-of-age drama An Education, in which she portrayed a boarding-school headmistress, and the rock-and-roll-themed comedy Pirate Radio.
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