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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

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Samantabhadra

Dhyāni-bodhisattva Samantabhadra in the yab-yum attitude with his...

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