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    General view of Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California. (prisons, penitentiary
    6 Ingenious Escapes
    Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).
    Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace
    bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.
    Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons
    International currencies, money, various banknotes, currency
    A Brief (and Fascinating) History of Money
    Santa Claus reading the list, Christmas, north pole
    Alternative Christmas Visitors
    Domestic chickens (Gallus) on a farm. Rooster hen poultry bird fowl
    How Mike the Chicken Survived Without a Head
    Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, 1935.
    Walt Disney’s First Cartoon Critter Was Not Mickey Mouse
    Transfused Human blood in storage
    The Strange, Grisly History of the First Blood Transfusion
    Human Cannibalism; Johannes Lerii's account of the description of the method the Indians use for "barbecuing" human flesh. Nude Indians barbecuing and eating parts of human bodies; Theodor de Bry.
    Cannibalism: Cultures, Cures, Cuisine, and Calories
    Great White Shark
    The 1916 Shark Attacks That Gave Sharks a Bad Rap
    Madonna and Child Enthroned by Gentile da Fabriano, tempera on panel, c. 1420, 95.7 x 56.5 cm
    Beautiful Gibberish: Fake Arabic in Medieval and Renaissance Art
    Pregnancy. pregnancy and birth. Fertilization, Pregnancy, and Birth. Stages of nine month pregnant woman abdomen growth. Pregnant human female developing human within her. White pregnant female, developing fetus. mother
    9 Bizarre Myths About Pregnancy
    Portrait of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (Venosa, 1566-Gesualdo, 1613), Italian composer. Painting by Francesco Mancini. Naples , Museo Storico Musicale
    Carlo Gesualdo: Murder, Witchcraft, Choral Music
    Click on image for enlargements of panel sections. The Ghent Altarpiece (open view) by Jan and Hubert van Eyck, 1432, polyptych with 12 panels, oil on panel; in the Cathedral of Saint-Bavon, Ghent, Belg.
    The Most Stolen Work of Art
    Charlie Chaplin as the 'Little Tramp'
    Rest in Peace? Not for These 7 Unlucky Individuals
    Student girl writing formulas on transparent wall
    The Bizarre Origins of the Words Nerd and Geek
    "John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I" by Henry Gillard Glindoni. Oil painting 18th century. Pentimento, occult, sorcery, magic.
    Queen Elizabeth's Court Occultist
    Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Frederick T. Stuart, c. about 1845
    The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
    Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)
    The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad
    A background with a view of earthen lamps arranged on the holy Swastika design made of flowers, during Diwali festival in India.
    How the Symbolism of the Swastika Was Ruined
    Carnivorous Venus Fly Traps (Dionaea muscipula) and Sundews (Drosera capensis) Plants secrete digestive enzymes s until the insect is liquified and its soluble contents digested.
    Beyond Venus Flytraps: The Plants that Eat Meat
    William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. c 1907
    What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?
    Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
    Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
    Florence, Italy Statue of David by Michelangelo
    How a Rejected Block of Marble Became the World’s Most Famous Statue
    Julius Caesar in full Gaius Julius Caesar (100? BCE-44 BCE) statue in Rimini, Italy. Roman general and statesman and dictator
    The Time Julius Caesar Was Captured by Pirates
    ribeye steak, beef, cow, meat
    How Oprah Got Sued for Dissing a Burger
    "On the threshold of office--what have we to expect of him?" chromolithograph by Joseph Keppler, September 1881. Print shows the members of the assassinated James A. Garfield's cabinet looking at the new president, Chester Arthur. Chester A. Arthur.
    The Surprisingly Disorderly History of the U.S. Presidential Succession Order
    Scene from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, 1843. The irascible, curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Present, the third of the four apparitions that visit him on Christmjas Eve. From "A Christmas Carol" by...
    Diagnosing 9 of Charles Dickens’s Most Famous Characters
    Norwegian forest cat relaxing in a tree
    Vikings Helped Cats Conquer the World
    Artist's reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimeter in size.
    The Oldest Human Ancestor
    Frankenstein, Boris Karloff (1931). Directed by James Whale
    The Real Science Behind Frankenstein
    Portrait of Salvador Dali in front of painting "The Madonna of Port Lligat."
    Famous Mustaches in History
    Sydney Opera House, Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
    Why New York Is Called "The Big Apple" and How 8 Other Famous Cities Got Their Nicknames
    Old medieval wooden pirate military war ship with a cannon on the deck pointed out and aiming
    Pirate School: 5 Things You Can Shoot from a Cannon
    Gilles de Rais (1404-1440). Breton baron, marshal of France. Fought in guards of Joan of Arc. Accused of being serial killer of children.
    Gilles de Rais: History’s First Serial Killer?
    Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Scandinavia
    The Arctic’s Seed-Filled Doomsday Fortress
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