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Thomas Rowlandson's caricature, Death and the Antiquaries, 1816. A group of antiquaries cluster eagerly around the exhumed corpse of a king. The image was inspired by the opening of the tomb of Edward I in Westminster Abbey by the Society of Antiquaries in 1774.
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Frederick the Great inspects the potato harvest outside Neustettin (now Szczecinek, Poland), Eastern Pomerania
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Henri-Paul Motte, Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts.
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The walking cane used to attack Charles Sumner on exhibit at the Old State House in Boston, USA 1856. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that eventually led to the American Civil War. @HardcoreHistory
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