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_et('6'); A cotton gin (machine), invented by Eli Whitney (1765-1825) in the United States in 1794 during the Industrial Revolution. The machine was used to clean raw cotton and separate it from sticky seeds by pulling the cotton balls through a comb...

_et('6'); The Education of Achilles, oil on canvas by Auguste-Clément Chrétien, 1861.

_et('6'); A sculpture of Chiron and Achilles by Rinaldo Rinaldi, 1817. Cortile della Ca' d'oro, Venice.

_et('6'); The centaur Chiron teaching Achilles how to play the lyre, Roman fresco from Herculaneum. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

_et('6'); Decorated amphora in the British Museum. Figures suggested to be Achilles and Cheiron. Etruscan 500-480BCE. British Museum, London.

_et('6'); The Education of Achilles, oil on canvas by Bénigne Gagneraux, 1785.

_et('6'); A portrait bust of the Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt (1736-1819). Watt, with his partner Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), made significant developments to the design of steam engines during the Industrial Revolution. Sculpted by P...

_et('6'); This family tree shows all the rulers of Carthage mentioned in extant ancient Greek and Roman sources (and three from a Punic inscription) from circa 550 to 306 BCE. It also indicates the Carthaginian commanders in the seven Greco-Punic Sicilian...

_et('6'); Mosque at the top of Mount Sinai.

_et('6'); Photo of Mount Sinai near Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, taken 7 November 2009.