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Funerary Inscription of a Child
Funerary stela of a mining boy from Hispania Citerior, 1st century CE.
National Archaeological Museum, Madrid.

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Château de Goulaine
Château de Goulaine, Haute-Goulaine, Loire-Atlantique, France. In the 12th century, Jean de Goulaine, Captain of the city of Nantes, reinforced the property to protect it from attack, and it is still surrounded by marshes today. Since then...

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Château de Talcy
Château de Talcy, Loir-et-Cher, France. Although the château de Talcy already existed in the 13th century, the château as we know it today owes a lot to the family of Florentine banker Bernard Salviati, who bought it in 1517. It was to Salviati's...

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Château de Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire
Château de Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire, Loiret, France. A simple fortified tower in the 11th century, the château was transformed over the centuries to become the gem we can admire today. In the 16th century, the castle was transformed into a...

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Château du Clos Lucé
Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France. Formerly known as the Manoir du Cloux, the Château de Clos Lucé was originally built in 1471 as a former fiefdom of the Château d'Amboise. Passing through several hands before being purchased...

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John Laurens
Pocket portrait of John Laurens (1756-1782), a colonel in the Continental Army and aide-de-camp to George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Watercolor on ivory by Charles Willson Peale, 1780. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian...

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Treaty of Paris, Unfinished Portrait
An unfinished oil sketch depicting the Treaty of Paris of 1783, by Benjamin West, c. 1783. The American commissioners depicted from left to right are John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. The...

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Slave Trader Advertisement Taken Out By Henry Laurens and His Partners in a Charleston Newspaper
A slave trader advertisement in a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper, taken out by Henry Laurens and his partners, published on 26 April 1760.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

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Portrait of Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens (1724-1792), an American politician during the American Revolution who served as a president of the Continental Congress. Oil on canvas portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott, c. 1781-84. United States Senate Collection, Washington...

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Stratford Hall
Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was a residence of the prominent Lee family of Virginia and the birthplace of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee (1742-1794) and Francis Lightfoot...