Picture Of The Day
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One of Charles Bell’s paintings of a casualty from the Battle of Corunna. It depicts a soldier suffering muscle contractions during the final stages of tetanus.…
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Picture Of The Day
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( Photo: by Claude Valette) This art was done by a cave man 32,000 years ago The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France…
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19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English tribunal. May 30, 1431 Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France,…
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Jean-Claude Van Damme with Frank Dux During The Filming Of Bloodsport Frank Dux claims to hold several martial arts world records, including 56 knock-outs in a…
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Joseph Merrick, aka The Elephant Man, c. 1889 Joseph Merrick was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, as one of four siblings. During the first few years of…
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Maurice Tillet: The 1940s Wrestler Who Inspired the Character of Shrek Maurice Tillet was born in 1904 in the Ural Mountains of Russia, to French parents.…
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Midsummer Celebration, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970 Midsummer takes place in June and is a celebration of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It is…
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Laika: The Soviet Space Dog Sent on a One-Way Trip into Orbit, 1957 During the early days of the Space Race, the Soviet Union aimed to…
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The Bull by Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso’s The Bull is a series of eleven lithographs created in 1945. It depicts the bull at various stages of abstraction,…
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Before and after limb lengthening surgery Lengthening works by separating the bone and distracting (pulling apart) the bone segments very slowly so that new bone continues…