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![]() | Volga River - Topography Map The Volga River is one of the longest in the world. Here are some key facts about it, and its topography. |
![]() | Silkeborg Museum Silkeborg Museum, located in the Danish town of Silkeborg, has an Iron-Age collection which features two mummies found in a nearby peat bog. |
![]() | John Cabot and His Explorations John Cabot - the Anglicized version of Giovanni Caboto's name - is believed to be the first European explorer to visit parts of North America since the Vikings reached what they termed "Vinland" (in the 11th century). |
![]() | Inca Mummy from Ampato Dr. Johan Reinhard and his team found two mummies near the summit of Ampato (at an elevation of 19,200 feet). |
![]() | Mrs. Dalloway - Famous Novel This image depicts the back-cover of a recent edition of Mrs. Dalloway, one of Virginia Woolf's most-famous novels. |
![]() | Tollund Man with Rope around His Neck It is clear from the way Tollund Man's body was found, in a Danish peat bog, that he died by hanging. |
![]() | Inca Boy - El Plomo Mummy In 1954, a group of climbers on Chile's El Plomo Mountain found the mummy of a young Inca boy. |
![]() | Tollund Mummy as It Appeared in the Peat Bog At first, it seemed that Tollund Man had been laid to rest without a violent death. The, his discoverers saw a rope around his neck. |
![]() | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Grieving Father Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's famous nineteenth-century thinkers and writers, endured a great deal of sadness in his life. |
![]() | Diary of Anne Frank - July 5, 1942 Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home. |
![]() | Diary of Anne Frank - July 8, 1942 |
![]() | Trial and Death of Socrates Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first found him guilty of the charges, then condemned him to death. |
![]() | Martin Luther Responds to Pope Leo X On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luther burned the edict, in public. |
![]() | Johann Tetzel - Seller of Indulgences Johann Tetzel was a German Dominican friar who told people that if they bought indulgences, their sins would be forgiven. |
![]() | Gutenberg Printing Press in Operation |
![]() | So You Want to be a Writer, by Charles Bukowski Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of August, 1920. |
![]() | Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, Chapter 1 - Audio Mark Twain published his famous book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in Britain (in December of 1884) and in America (in February of 1885). |
![]() | Gutenberg Bible at the Library of Congress |
![]() | John Hus - Burned at the Stake Refusing to recant his beliefs, which were contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church, Jan Hus (John Huss) was burned at the stake outside the city walls of Konstanz (Constance). |
![]() | Adventures of Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, Chapter 4 - Audio Huck Finn is sceptical about many things, but he is also a realist. |