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The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280 - Jerusalem is at the center, Europe lower left, Africa lower right.
Printed color halftone reproduction 19th century

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First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846

First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin

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William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne, 1668

William of Orange, later King William III of England, leading the Dutch army in England's Glorious Revolution.
Hand-colored engraving

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