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Stele of the ode of Hammurabi

April 26, 2024

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The Code of Hammurabi contains 282 articles of law, which regulate many aspects of Mesopotamian society. The Code governs criminal offences, commerce, marriage, architecture and agriculture. The steles were a means of spreading the laws, and this al...

No taxation without representation

April 26, 2024

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Print shows citizens in Boston burning proclamations from England pertaining to the stamp act of 1765, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. ...

Iroquois women grinding corn or dried berries

April 24, 2024

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A 1664 European engraving that illustrates Iroquoian social roles. Iroquois women doing agricultural work: grinding corn or dried berries. ...

Joseph Masson (1791-1847)

April 24, 2024

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Joseph Masson (January 5, 1791 – May 15, 1847) was Canadian businessman, who is considered the first French Canadian millionaire. Masson was Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1834 to 1838. ...

Colosseum with Stations of the Cross

April 19, 2024

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi's rendering of the Colosseum "revealing the plan and exposing the structure. Piranesi's labels ... inform us of the location in which each rank of Roman society would have been seated, from the emperor and his court to the...

Pantheon in Rome

April 19, 2024

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Reconstruction of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from the side, cut away to reveal the interior. ...

Mausoleum of Augustus

April 19, 2024

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Idealized painting of the heritage site of the Mausoleum of Augustus (1575) by Étienne Dúperac, with a view of the gardens of Cardinal Francesco Soderini. ...