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Child Cotton Mill Worker
A child worker in a cotton mill, Georgia, USA. Photograph taken in 1909. (Library of Congress, USA)
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Worker's Tomb, Deir el-Medina
A worker's tomb at the site of Deir el-Medina, a village for artists and masons who built the royal tombs in the nearby Valley of the Kings, Egypt. The village was in continuous use from the time of Thutmose I (1520-1492 BCE) until the collapse...
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Worker on Colossal Foot, Abu Simbel
The International Campaign for the safeguard of of the Nubian monuments was launched by UNESCO. A worker seated on one of the feet of the Great Temple statues during the dismantling work.
Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt (9 February 1966)
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Deir el-Medina
Deir el-Medina is the modern Arabic name for the worker's village (now an archaeological site) which was home to the artisans and craftsmen of Thebes who built and decorated the royal tombs in the nearby Valley of the Kings and Valley of...
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Weetamoo
Weetamoo (l. c. 1635-1676, also known as Namumpum, Tatapuanunum, Wattimore, Weetthao) was a female chief of the Pocasset Wampanoag tribe as well as a War Chief in King Philip's War (1675-1678), during which she established herself as a great...
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Trade Unions in the British Industrial Revolution
Trade unions were formed in Britain during the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) to protect workers from unnecessary risks using dangerous machines, unhealthy working conditions, and excessive hours of work. The trade union movement was vigorously...
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A History of Ottoman Libraries
A History of Ottoman Libraries is a timely research that acknowledges the gap in Anglophone scholarship on Ottoman intellectual history. Part of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies series from Academic Studies Press, this book is aimed at scholars...
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Emotions Across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece
Emotions Across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece brings together nine distinguished scholars working with modern and ancient texts from China and Greece to investigate emotional history’s potential to address cross-cultural and trans-historical...
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Ancient Egyptian Burial
Egyptian burial is the common term for the ancient Egyptian funerary rituals concerning death and the soul's journey to the afterlife. Eternity, according to scholar Margaret Bunson, “was the common destination of each man, woman and child...
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Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)
The Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia is the modern-day archaeological term for the era in Mesopotamian history – 2900-2334 BCE – during which some of the most significant cultural advances were made including the rise of the cities, the...