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Timeline of the 2000s

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

Amendments 1-10 to the Constitution of the United States constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights on an American flag.

What Is the Emoluments Clause?

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Is Cinco de Mayo Mexico's Independence Day?

Aurochs. Bos primigenius. Skeleton. Extinct animal. Skeleton of an Aurochs, an extinct wild ox.

6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

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André-Gustave Citroën

André-Gustave Citroën

French engineer