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Map image of the Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia from the Encyclopædia Britannica website under the Baltic States Media.

A manuscript copybook created by a student at Susanna Rowson's academy for girls in Boston. The manuscript seems to be at once an exercise in penmanship and in learning math and other commercial practices and genres, perhaps following the principal…

Chinua Achebe, c. 1960, with two editions of his first novel, Things Fall Apart.

A newspaper created by a student from Santa Clara University talks about education for immigrants, specifically about language barriers while getting an education.

German Jewish refugee Erwin Eisfelder stands outside Cafe Louis on Ward Road. The cafe was named in honor of his father. It was a popular gathering place for refugees in Shanghai during the war years. Shanghai, China

Statement by President Eisenhower on signing the National Aeronautics and Space Act

A detail from the Book of the Dead of Aaneru from Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, 1070-946 BCE.

A detail from the Book of the Dead of Tayesnakht from Thebes, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BCE. Pharaohs often wore two crowns to signify the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt