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EVB2936594: A pregnant woman, from MANSUR'S ANATOMY, authored by the Persian scholar and physician, Mansur ibn Ilyas (c. 1370-1423). Figure showing arteries, internal organs including the liver, stomach, spleen, kidneys. The fetus is in the breach position and attached to the heart by an artery. Copy completed by Hasan ibn Ahmad, working in Isfahan, in 1488 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936604: Whirling bed and chair used to tranquilize patients inmates in mental hospitals in 19th century Belgium, by pioneering physician Joseph Guislain (1797-1860). As head of the mental hospitals of Ghent, he developed a humane therapeutic environment for the insane. c. 1835 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937067: Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter, center, handcuffed to J. Edgar Hoover (left), at entrance to courthouse in New York City in 1939-40. With a ,000 reward on his head, he was tricked into surrendering to Hoover by a 'friend,' Moey Dimples. Buchalter was executed on March 4, 1944 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937056: John Scopes (1900-1970), a young lawyer and substitute teacher, in coordination with the ACLU, deliberately violated Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. His act triggered the famous Monkey Trial, or Scopes trial followed. 1925 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937094: Adam Worth (1844-1902), the famous thief, sits facing the Pinkerton brothers on the Hot Springs Stage. Worth is small figure on front seat. In his last years, 'the Napoleon of Crime' collaborated with Pickerton, to record the history of his life, and negotiate the return of a stolen painting, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937122: Suffragists Catherine Flanagan (left) and Madeleine Watson (right) of the militant National Woman's Party being arrested as they picket the White House East Gate. Both were sentenced to 30 days in Occoquan Workhouse, a prison where they were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937127: National Woman's Party activist, Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, is supported after release the Washington, D.C. jail, the Occoquan Workhouse, where suffragists were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions. c. 1917 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937147: Young women in a tableau as ancient warriors perform at Seneca Falls, N.Y. seventy-fifth anniversary Equal Rights celebration on July 20, 1923. After the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, broad based feminist activist waned for forty years / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937243: Andrew Hamilton, Peter Zenger's (seated, upper right) defense lawyer, argues against his guilt for seditious libel against the colonial governor. In the crowded New York courtroom, he argued that his client was not guilty because the libel law protected the British monarch, not an appointed governor when words of the 'libel' were true / Bridgeman Images