The obverse of this coin contains an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, and the reverse depicts a duck-billed platypus swimming in the water. The platypus is native to Australia and is only one of two mammals in the world that lays eggs, the other being...
This buff steatite scarab was created in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1750-1550 BC). This amulet has the body and shape of a beetle, and the bottom has a symmetrical, geometric pattern. Scarabs are most commonly made out of...
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Captain Thomas DeKay Kimball, Jr. enlisted as a private in 1862 in Company I, 88th Indiana Infantry. He took part in the battles of Perrysville and Stone River. He was captured at the Battle of Chickamauga. He was imprisoned at Libby Prison,...
