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Howard Carter. Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings .
The Discovery of America, as well as other charged artworks commissioned to adorn the Capitol building, contributed to the iconography which informed westward expansion.. Many works of art created for the Capitol building were even used by congressmen to support political movements west, due to their underlying symbolism related to Manifest Destiny – specifically the inherent Anglo-American ...
8 knots (15 km/h) Crew. 11 officers and 36 men. RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon ...
Manunggul Jar. The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar excavated from a Neolithic burial site in the Manunggul cave of the Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan, Philippines. It dates from 890–710 B.C. [ 2] and the two prominent figures at the top handle of its cover represent the journey of the soul to the afterlife .
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) [ 1] was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. [ 2][ 3] Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies ...
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, an artistic rendition of Franklin's kite experiment painted by Benjamin West, c. 1816. The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect static electricity from the air and conduct it down the wet kite string to the ground.
Siloam tunnel. / 31.772358; 35.235673. The newer Siloam Tunnel ( Hebrew: נִקְבַּת הַשִּׁלֹחַ, Nikbat HaShiloaḥ ), also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel ( Hebrew: תעלת חזקיהו, Te'alát Ḥizkiyáhu ), is a water tunnel that was carved within the City of David in ancient times, now located in the Arab neighborhood of ...
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