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silk filaments silkworm cocoon Embroidered silk with dragon, phoenix, and tiger pattern, from Mashan Tomb No. 1, 4th–3rd century bce, Zhou dynasty; in the Jingzhou Museum, Hubei province, China. Persian hunting carpet silkworm silk Qing dynasty: silk dragon robe silk in a shop in Thailand Surin: silk
What can bionics researchers learn from butterflies and moths?
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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
United States Electoral College votes by state
How Many Electoral College Votes Does Each U.S. State Have?
Adolf Hitler (Nazi, nazism, German leader).
9 Things You Might Not Know About Adolf Hitler
Sydney New Years Eve Fireworks
Why Does the New Year Start on January 1?
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

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What can bionics researchers learn from butterflies and moths?
Bionics researchers studying silkworm moths and butterflies.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Witness a spider building, devouring, and rebuilding a web
Time-lapse video of a spider building a web, devouring it, and building a new one.
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen String Quartet/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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silk filaments
Silk filaments after dyeing, Ürgüp, Tur.
Georges Jansoone
silkworm cocoon
Commercial silk is made from the fibrous cocoons of silkworm caterpillars (Bombyx...
© Vibe Images/Fotolia
Embroidered silk with dragon, phoenix, and tiger pattern, from Mashan Tomb No. 1,...
Kong Lihang/ChinaStock Photo Library
Persian hunting carpet
Detail of a Persian silk hunting carpet from Kāshān, Iran, 16th century, showing...
Courtesy of the Osterreichisches Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; photographs Eric Lessing - Magnum
silkworm
Domesticated silkworms (Bombyx species) on mulberry leaves.
© Roman Sigaev/Fotolia
silk
Detail of handwoven Italian silk brocaded on silk with floral motif, c....
Courtesy of Scalamandre, New York City
Qing dynasty: silk dragon robe
Panel from an imperial Chinese silk dragon robe embroidered in silk and gold thread,...
Lee Boltin
silk in a shop in Thailand
Silk on display in a shop in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
© Pawel Gaul /iStock.com
Surin: silk
Silk from Surin, Thai.
© Natt Boonyatecha—EyeEm/Getty Images
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