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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
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Sand tiger sharks. A sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) Aliwal Shoal, Indian Ocean, South Africa in cave. Sand tiger sharks, four sharks belonging to the family Odontaspididae order Lamniformes. Aka blue or grey nurse shark, spotted ragged tooth shark.
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Mount Tambora
Aerial view of the summit caldera of Mount Tambora, Sumbawa island, Indonesia.
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Mount Tambora, volcanic mountain on the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia, that in April 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic…
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Shoeless Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson, c. 1915.
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Shoeless Joe Jackson, American professional baseball player, by many accounts one of the greatest, who was ultimately banned from the game…
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Gomphothere, any member of a line of extinct elephants that formed the most numerous group of the order Proboscidea and lived from perhaps…
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Chia, (Salvia hispanica), species of flowering plant in the mint family (Lamiaceae), grown for its edible seeds. The plant is native to Mexico and Guatemala,…
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