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Pirate captain Bartholomew Roberts in his finery.
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Captain Bartholomew Roberts

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Pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read. After their capture, they were granted stays of execution because of their conditions.
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Bonny and Read in Jamaica

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Two young visitors look into the coral reef aquarium at the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall
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Young Visitors to the Sant Ocean Hall

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When we use fossil fuels to power our cars, homes, and businesses, we put heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Tracking Ocean Acidification

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Pirate captain Bartholomew Roberts dressed in embroidered coats and hats with feathered plumes, like an elegant gentleman.
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Portrait of Bartholomew Roberts

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Major Stede Bonnet on a ship, shown in an engraved print
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Major Stede Bonnet

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Engraving of pirate Captain Henry Morgan
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Henry Morgan

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Charles Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree appears in his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837).
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Darwin’s Evolutionary Tree Diagram

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Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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Bubble of Oil On The Seafloor

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A tornado of sardines swirls around diver and photographer Erwin Poliakoff in the Philippines.
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Inside a Sardine Tornado

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As these models show, traditional canoes came in a variety of shapes and designs.
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Varieties of Canoes

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Phoenix swims in George’s Bank, off the coast of New England, on March 13, 2009.
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Phoenix in George's Bank

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