Sir George Everest

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The view of Mount Everest from Tibet. Mountain on the crest of the Great Himalayas of southern Asia that lies on the border between Nepal and the Tibet.

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Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

The Prado Museum facade at the Diego Velaszquez memorial. Established in 1819, the museum is considered the best collection of Spanish art and one of the world's finest collections of European art. Madrid, Spain

20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

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The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. (Civil War, Pennsylvania)

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Monitor. Varanus salvadorii is a monitor lizard found in New Guinea can grows to 2.7 metres (9 ft.) aka Tree crocodile, Crocodile monitor, Salvadori's monitor, artellia, reptile

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Lizards and Turtles

Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

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Born	July 4, 1790 • Wales
Died	December 1, 1866 (aged 76) • London • England

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Lord Curzon

British foreign secretary

Clement Attlee

prime minister of United Kingdom

Lord William Bentinck

British government official

Shashi Tharoor

Indian politician

Mirabehn

British-born activist

Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier

British field marshal

Edward VII

king of Great Britain and Ireland

John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence

British colonial official

Lord Ripon, oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1895; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st marquess of Ripon

British statesman

Mountstuart Elphinstone

British colonial official

Charles John Canning, Earl Canning

British official

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten

British statesman

Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet

British statesman

John Crawfurd

British scholar and diplomat

George Eden, earl of Auckland

governor general of India

Earl of Ellenborough, detail of an oil painting by F.R. Say, c. 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Edward Law, earl of Ellenborough

British governor of India

Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd marquess of Linlithgow

British statesman and viceroy of India

Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th earl of Minto

British official

Sir Bartle Frere, detail of an oil painting by Sir George Reid, 1881; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Bartle Frere, 1st Baronet

British colonial official

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