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Why Do We Say “A Pair of Pants”?

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6 Small Kingdoms of the World

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Timeline and Map of the Panama Canal

Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

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Pisa, Leaning Tower of

The Eiffel Tower, Paris.

Taipei 101 tower

Close-up of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy.

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Westminster Abbey

Nicholas Hawksmoor

British architect