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'John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I' by Henry Gillard Glindoni. Oil painting 18th century. Pentimento, occult, sorcery, magic.

In late August 2016, sunlight returned to the Antarctic Peninsula and unveiled a rift across the Larsen C Ice Shelf that had grown longer and deeper over the austral winter

People run from bulls on street during San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain

Hong Kong. Hong Kong harbour. Hong Kong special administrative region of China, located to the east of the Pearl River (Xu Jiang) estuary on the south coast of China.

Rustem Pasha Mosque in the foreground and the Suleymaniye Mosque, an Ottoman imperial mosque on the Third Hill of Istanbul.

Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.

Late blight, a plant disease caused by the water mold Phytophthora infestans, on a potato tuber. The disease was responsible for the Irish Potato Famine of the mid-19th century.

Naked mole-rats in a zoo environment

Glitter and balloons fill the air during a celebration of ʿId al-Fitr.

Concept of human evolution from ape to man. Man evolution. Development progress, primate growth, ancestor and mankind, caveman and neanderthal mammal generation. Neanderthal and monkey. Raster version

Members of The Farm, near Summertown, Tenn., load sorghum for processing into molasses at a nearby mill in Summertown, Tennessee, Dec. 7, 1971. The group, with 400 members, came to Tennessee to set up a communal life.

Illustration for Spotlight 'Summer of Love Week'

Commemoration of the emancipation of Southern slaves and the end of the Civil War, showing contrast between slavery and the life of freedmen. Print by Thomas Nast. 1865.

Anne Frank. Photo of Anne Frank at the children’s memorial at the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland Nov. 8, 2008. Anne Frank was a Jewish wartime girl diarist who hid from the Nazis during World War II. WWII, Holocaust

Police began to move in the area of 12th Street and Clairmont as hundreds of people fill the street with violence gaining momentum during the 1967 Detroit Race Riot.

Runners competing at 800 m during the Special Olympics European Summer Games in Warsaw. Photo taken on: September 20, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland

Guards with a blindfolded prisoner, still from the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Phillip Zimbardo

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Newborn babies Contributor Names, 1942

Transfused Human blood in storage

Mildred and Richard Loving, 1958.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Scandinavia

President Ronald Reagan deliving his famous speech that challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall, at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, June 12, 1987.

1890 photo of Lizzie Borden

Aerial photo from 380 km over earth from the International Space Station over Mindanao Island group, Philippines. Atmosphere, clouds weather sky, limb of the earth

A gang of feral cats in Alaksa

Prayer beads on Quran or Koran written in Arabic Islam’s sacred and liturgical language. text, words, Ramadan

Still from Star Wars 1977 from left to right Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, and Harrison Ford as Han Solo

Replica skull of a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis), with a modern human (Homo sapiens) in the background.

puppy in basket (pup, dog, cute, pet)

Tulips are perennial plants, meaning that they live for more than two years.

Bunch of shark fins, shark finning

Homo Naledi on exhibition in 2015

Lion in a Cage, Animals In Captivity, Animal Wildlife, Cage, Lion, Feline, Animal, mammal

The Palm House in Kew Gardens, originally built between 1844 and 1848, displays exotic palms from around the world.

Shotgun houses, new Orleans, louisiana

Madonna and Child Enthroned by Gentile da Fabriano, tempera on panel, c. 1420, 95.7 x 56.5 cm

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