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Title: A Short History of the World
Author: H. G. Wells
Release Date: March 2, 2011 [EBook #35461]
[Last updated: November 3, 2011]
Language: English
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2 Nebula seen Edge-on
3 The Great Spiral Nebula
6 A Dark Nebula
7 Another Spiral Nebula
8 Landscape before Life
9 Marine Life in the Cambrian Period
12 Fossil Trilobite
13 Early Palæozoic Fossils of various Species of Lingula
14 Fossilized Footprints of a Labyrinthodont, Cheirotherium
15 Pterichthys Milleri
17 Fossil of Cladoselache
18 Sharks and Ganoids of the Devonian Period
19 A Carboniferous Swamp
22 Skull of a Labyrinthodont, Capitosaurus
23 Skeleton of a Labyrinthodont: The Eryops
24 A Fossil Ichthyosaurus
27 A Pterodactyl
28 The Diplodocus
29 Fossil of Archeopteryx
32 Hesperornis in its Native Seas
33 The Ki-wi
34 Slab of Marl Rich in Cainozoic Fossils
35 Titanotherium Robustum
38 Skeleton of Giraffe-camel
40 Skeleton of Early Horse
40 Comparative Sizes of Brains of Rhinoceros and Dinoceras
41 A Mammoth
44 Flint Implements from Piltdown Region
45 A Pithecanthropean Man
46 The Heidelberg Man
46 The Piltdown Skull
47 A Neanderthaler
49 Europe and Western Asia 50,000 years ago
Map 50 Comparison of Modern Skull and Rhodesian Skull
51 Altamira Cave Paintings
54 Later Palæolithic Carvings
55 Bust of Cro-magnon Man
57 Later Palæolithic Art
58 Relics of the Stone Age
62 Gray’s Inn Lane Flint Implement
63 Somaliland Flint Implement
63 Neolithic Flint Implement
67 Australian Spearheads
68 Neolithic Pottery
69 Relationship of Human Races
Map 72 A Maya Stele
73 European Neolithic Warrior
75 Babylonian Brick
78 Egyptian Cylinder Seals of First Dynasty
79 The Sakhara Pyramids
80 The Pyramid of Cheops: Scene from Summit
81 The Temple of Hathor
82 Pottery and Implements of the Lake Dwellers
85 A Lake Village
86 Flint Knives of 4500 B.C.
87 Egyptian Wall Paintings of Nomads
87 Egyptian Peasants Going to Work
88 Stele of Naram Sin
89 The Treasure House at Mycenæ
93 The Palace at Cnossos
95 Temple at Abu Simbel
97 Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak
98 The Hypostyle Hall at Karnak
99 Frieze of Slaves
101 The Temple of Horus, Edfu
103 Archaic Amphora
105 The Mound of Nippur
107 Median and Chaldean Empires
Map 110 The Empire of Darius
Map 111 A Persian Monarch
112 The Ruins of Persepolis
113 The Great Porch of Xerxes
113 The Land of the Hebrews
Map 117 Nebuchadnezzar’s Mound at Babylon
118 The Ishtar Gateway, Babylon
120 Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II
124 Captive Princes making Obeisance
125 Statue of Meleager
128 Ruins of Temple of Zeus
130 The Temple of Neptune, Pæstum
132 Greek Ships on Ancient Pottery
135 The Temple of Corinth
137 The Temple of Neptune at Cape Sunium
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