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A gallery of views of ancient Rome; oil on canvas, 1758, by Pannini

The Granger Collection

MUSIC

Orchestral Suite No. 2

Associated Production Music

Scientist Claims Earth is Incredibly Ancient!

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The Allegheny Mountains

(c) Byran Allen, Superstock

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Limestone

World Book Photo

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Erosion

© Charles R. Belinky, Photo Researchers

 

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: A Revolutionary Site

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Benjamin Franklin in 1778 at the court of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette

The Granger Collection

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The Death of Marat (1793), an oil painting on canvas by Jacques Louis David; The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

SCALA/Art Resource

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French Revolution, color engraving

Corbis-Bettmann

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Thomas Jefferson; Oil painting on canvas (1805) by Gilbert Stuart

The Granger Collection

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Thomas Paine

Corbis-Bettmann

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The guillotine

World Book Illustration

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Marie Antoinette

Hulton-Getty/Tony Stone Images

 

Diary of Jack Mulgrew, a Continental soldier

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Mushrooms

World Book Illustration

 

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Needle

World Book Illustration

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Potatoes

World Book Illustration

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George Washington; Oil painting on canvas (1796) by Gilbert Stuart

The Granger Collection

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Detail of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 (1775), an engraving by Amos Doolittle.

The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut

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The flintlock musket

World Book Illustration

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The Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), actually fought on Breed’s Hill, was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War.

World Book Illustration

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The Spirit of ’76. Detail of an oil painting on canvas (about 1875) by Archibald M. Willard. Original of the Spirit of ’76 hangs in the Selectman’s Room, Marblehead, Massachusetts

 

 

MUSICIAN SEEKING WORK

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Mozart

Corbis-Bettmann

Centennial of the Reign of Czar Peter

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Peter the Great

RIA-Novosti from Sovfoto

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St. Petersburg

Art Resource