Children using sign language to sing the US national anthem, in Evandale, Ohio, 1935.

The 1927 Sunbeam 1000.

Illustration of an asteroid or comet striking the surface of the Earth, created on July 19, 2015.

Asteroid Impact Illustration

A chicken farm in Australia. Such farms can be a source of avian influenza outbreaks.

Fred Valla's farm was the target of Department of Agriculture quarantine because

A tablet of Bayer aspirin as it dissolves in water.

Audience members sit in their seats and watch the screen at the Newsreel Theater on Broadway and 47th Street, New York, New York, January 25, 1940.

Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.

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Learn about great inventors like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, the Wright brothers, Alexander Graham Bell and Nikola Tesla, and inventions like the cotton gin, the automobile and the internet.

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Food is an integral part of human history, serving as both sustenance and a symbol of culture, trade and power. From the earliest days of hunter-gatherers to modern-day globalization, what people eat has influenced the course of history.

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The history of art and entertainment tells the complex story of human civilization through visual art, design, literature, music, film and television. It ranges from cave drawings of the Neolithic period to Renaissance masterpieces to rock 'n' roll and video games.

Arts & Entertainment

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