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Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Hemp (Cannabis sativa).

9 Mind-Altering Plants

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.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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heraldry

In heraldry: Other charges
Other divisions of a shield are party per pale (or, simply, per pale), division of the field into two equal parts by a perpendicular line (that resembles the impalement just mentioned but does not serve the same purpose of combining arms); party per fess, division into…
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