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Bacon's Rebellion: The Burning of Jamestown
The Burning of Jamestown. Illustration by Howard Pyle, from page 120 of Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History: from 458 A.D. to 1905 by Benson John Lossing, Ed. Vol 5 of 10, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905 CE. The image...
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The Burning of Parliament by Turner
A c. 1834 oil on canvas painting, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834, by J.M.W.Turner (1775-1851). (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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The Wise Man of Chief Mountain
The Wise Man of Chief Mountain is an origin story of the Blackfeet nation explaining how they came to wear brightly colored clothing. Although Native American nations generally wore clothing dyed different colors, the Blackfeet were famous...
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The Burning of Troy
Oil painting by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769) called Blick auf das brennende Troja.
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Burning of Charlestown During the Battle of Bunker Hill
British cannonade destroys the town of Charlestown, Massachusetts, during the British attack on Breed's Hill (Battle of Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775). This is an annotated version of a 1775 engraving by Paul Revere, currently in an anonymous...
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Lindow Man
The Lindow Man (officially Lindow III) is the top half of a male body, found preserved in a peat bog in Cheshire, England. The peat bogs at Lindow Moss date back to the last ice age and were formed by holes of melting ice; they are now...
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The Bear Man
The Bear Man is a Pawnee legend exemplifying the Native American understanding of the natural world and serving as an origin tale for the Bear Dance, which was performed to awaken the bears in spring from their winter hibernation and also...
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The Man Who Wrestled with a Ghost
The Man Who Wrestled with a Ghost (also given as The Indian Who Wrestled with a Ghost) is a Teton Sioux tale on how one should interact with the spirits of the dead in circumstances where one cannot avoid them. It is one of the best-known...
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The Lindow Man
The Lindow Man, dated to between 2 BCE and 119 CE and found in a peat bog in Chesire, England in 1984.
Now on display in the British Museum.
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The Man Who Loved Love
This is a page from the book 'The Man who Loved Love' (1684) written by Ihara Saikaku and illustrated by Hishikawa Moronbu held by the National Diet Library, Tokyo. Rare books of the National Diet Library -The 60th anniversary- (https://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit60/...