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Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773, hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, 1846.
Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA.
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Selçuk, Turkey: The Ancient City of Ephesus
Rick resurrects some Ephesian rubble with Mehlika Seval, who wrote THE guidebook on one of Turkey's greatest ancient sites — Ephesus. Subscribe at http://goo.gl/8iBEnS for weekly updates on more European destinations. Visit http://ricksteves.com/tours...
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Rome, Italy: The Pantheon
The magnificent Pantheon, built by the Romans as a temple to all of their gods is the Eternal City's best-preserved monument. Engineers still admire how such a mathematically precise structure was built without modern technology. Standing...
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The Puritan
Bronze cast (1899 CE) after the original full-size statue (1883-1886 CE) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Although the figure began as an individual portrait of Deacon Samuel Chapin (1595–1675 CE), a prominent early settler of Springfield, it developed...
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Arachne
Arachne, from the Greek arákhnē (meaning spider), is a figure in Greek mythology whose talent for weaving was renowned and who famously challenged the goddess Minerva to a weaving competition. As told in Ovid’s (43 BCE-17 CE) Metamorphoses...
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Manticore
The manticore, derived from the Early Middle Persian merthykhuwar or martiora, meaning "man-eater" (also known as a mantichora or a martichore), is a fearsome hybrid creature found in classical and medieval literature. It has the body of...
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Homo Naledi
Homo naledi is an extinct species of human discovered in Rising Star Cave in South Africa in 2013 CE in what has become the biggest single-species hominin find in Africa to this day, which is moreover set to cause a bit of an avalanche within...
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Ephesus, Turkey: Ancient City
More info about travel to Turkey: http://www.ricksteves.com/europe/turkey Rick joins his friend (and guide for Rick's bus tours through Turkey), to learn about the ancient home of the Ephesians — one of the world’s greatest classical sites...
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Rome, Italy: The Colosseum
Built in the 1st c AD when the Roman Empire peaked, the Colosseum represents Rome at its grandest. This colossal structure is a massive marvel of engineering. Ancient Romans, whose taste for violence exceeded even modern America's, came here...
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Jerusalem, Israel: Temple Mount and The Dome of the Rock
More info about Rick's travels to Israel: http://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/why-visit-israel Jerusalem is alive with religious tradition and passion — Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. Within a 10-minute walk you can...