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Awful Changes

A cartoon, published in 1830, 28 years before Darwin's Origin Of Species, lampooning theories of evolution. Entitled Awful Changes, it depicts an Ichthyosaurus giving a lecture on a human skull, descibing how its characteristics indicate that man was of the lower order of animals'. He continues: The teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws trifling, and altogether it seems wonderful how the creature could have procured food'. Drawn and engraved by H.T. de la Beche (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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American Homestead Winter

In a Currier & Ives print titled American Homestead Winter, a man with his dog carries firewood to his home as a couple in a horse-drawn slegh pass him on the road, 1868. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Pikes Peak Avenue. ca. 1937, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 539-Pikes Peak (Alt. 14, 110 Ft.) from Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, (Alt. 6, 072 Ft.), Colorado. Pikes Peak Avenue is a broad and stately street pointing directly toward the Peak from which it is named that looms above it. At the west it terminates at the Antlers Hotel whose graceful towers form a perfect sight like those on a rifle for the view of Pikes Peak. In the summer season it is thronged with visitors of every station in life from every state and country, for the Avenue is the center of tourist activity. Few who have traversed its broad pavements will forget it as it is one of the most impressive street spectacles in the world

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