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The House of Livia on the Palatine Hill, Rome
Three relatively large adjoining rooms (a tablinum and two side rooms) in the House of Livia on the Palatine Hill, Rome. Each room was painted with a mythological subject and its floor decorated in black...
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View of Bermuda from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse
View of Bermuda from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. Photograph by Michael A. Orlando, July 2015.
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Plymouth Burial Hill
Burial Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, MA.
The cemetery has been in use since the 1620s and is the final resting place of many Mayflower passengers and Plymouth Colony's first settlers.
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Americans Raise the South Carolina Flag over the Spring Hill Redoubt
American Sgt. Jasper raises the South Carolina flag over the Spring Hill redoubt during the assault on Savannah, 9 October 1779. Moments later, the British defenders of the redoubt opened...
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View of Roman Temple on Schonbuhl Hill
Standing on Schönbühl Hill, one finds the old Roman religious district at Augusta Raurica in what is present-day Switzerland. It existed from the early days of the town. Around 50 CE, several small temples stood...
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Cedar Hill - Last Home of Frederick Douglass
Cedar Hill, photograph by Walter Smalling in the Historic American Buildings Survey, October 1977. Frederick Douglass moved to this house in the late 1870s and lived there until his death in 1895. In 1988...
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Bombardment of Fort Sumter
Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States, April 13, 1861, woodcut by an unknown artist, 27 April 1861. This woodcut shows the opening of the American Civil War, the attack on Fort Sumter by...
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Popham Colony
The Popham Colony (1607-1608 CE, also referred to as the Sagadahoc Colony) was an English settlement established in the present-day town of Phippsburg, State of Maine, USA, in August 1607 CE. The expedition which founded the site...
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Ulysses S. Grant - The General Who Won the American Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was a Union general in the American Civil War and, later, the 18th president of the United States of America. He is generally regarded as the most effective Civil...
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Housesteads Roman Fort, Granaries
The north granary of Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium). All Roman forts had granaries (horrea) to store sufficient supplies for the garrison and for soldiers out on campaign. The granaries of Housesteads Roman...