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Wedgwood Brooches and Buckles
A selection of brooches, cameos, and buckles produced by the Etruria factory of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95). (British Museum, London)
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Triple Plough
An abandoned triple plough. Such machines with superior metal cutting blades were first introduced to agriculture during the Industrial Revolution of the 18-19th century.
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Horse-Powered Threshing Machine
A French illustration of a horse-powered threshing machine. This machine, used to separate grain from the husk, was invented in 1787 by the Scotsman Andrew Meikle (1719-1811). The machine used a drum with beaters to...
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Mechanized Reaping Machine
An 1884 illustration of the mechanized reaping machine which was invented in 1834 in the United States by Cyrus McCormack. (U.S. Library of Congress)
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Kaya Şahin
Kaya Şahin, the author of Peerless among Princes, the Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman.
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Peerless among Princes, the Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman
Peerless among Princes, the Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman by Kaya Şahin.
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Tablet Describing the Akitu Festival
Fragment of a Babylonian clay tablet, with 16 lines of inscription describing rites in Babylon relating to the Akitu festival. Fragment of the right half, copy of a text containing regulations for making offerings...
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The Roman Empire and the Crisis of the Third Century, c. 270 CE - Pretenders, Breakaways, Plague, and the Fight for Unity
The Crisis of the Third Century (235–284 CE) began with the assassination of Emperor Severus Alexander (reign 222–235 CE) in 235 CE, triggering...
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Tim Pauketat
Tim Pauketat, author of Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America.
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Dagobert I
An imagined portrait of the Merovingian king Dagobert I (r. 623-639). oil on canvas by Émile Signol, part of the "Portraits of the Kings of France" series commissioned in 1837 by King Louis-Philippe (r. 1830-1848), 1842. Palace...
