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a pope sitting in a chair in a cathedral
Top 10 Popes Before 1500
children, men, women and soldiers during WWII
10 Great World War II Films
Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco.
Top Ten Origins: Popes Before 1500
People dancing in a Broadway musical with their hands in the air
Our Top Ten Historical Musicals
Top back row: Toyama Mitsuru, Abraham Woodhull, Aldrich Ames, Francis Walsingham, Front Row is Adolf G. Tolkachev, Mata Hari, Klaus Fuchs, and Elizabeth Van Lew
History's Top Spies
Wrangell-St Elias Natl Park by CheWei Chang, Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0
America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).
Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).
Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood
Hypodermic needle collecting medicine
The History of Vaccination: Top 10 Things to Know
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]
Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety
book cover - Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town
Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads
A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I
Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).
Top Ten Origins: World War II Films
Pullman Strike illustration
Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes
Crime scene with police tape
White Supremacist Violence – An Origins Top ten
Great Wall of China
History’s Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?
Clarence Thomas
Top Ten Origins: Controversial SCOTUS Nominees
Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.
Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle
An artistic rendering of the observable universe by Pablo Carlos Budassi. It depicts the Solar System at the center, surrounded by other celestial bodies and galaxies, and cosmic microwave radiation and plasma left over from the Big Bang at the outer edge.
Top Ten Origins: The Universe’s Greatest Hits
book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History
Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads
Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.
Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States
The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb
Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape
Nationalist police forces in Barcelona preventing voting in the October 1, 2017 referendum.
Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain
This painting, which dates from 1859, reimagines the toppling of the equestrian statue of George III in New York City. Erected in 1770, the statue featured the regent garbed in Roman military regalia on horseback, in the fashion of Marcus Aurelius. It is doubtful that Native Americans, women and children were in attendance at this episode of iconoclasm by the Sons of Liberty.
Ten Memorable Monument Takedowns in History