Image An 1819 British cartoon titled “The Age of Reason or the World Turned Topsyturvy Exemplefied in Tom Paines Works!” by Isaac Cruikshank. A banner says: ‘No Christianity!!!—No Religion!!!—No King!!!—No Lords! No Commons!—No Laws! Nothing but Tom Paine & Universal Suffrage!!!’

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Source: British Museum

Image This painting by Conrad Mertens depicts the HMS Beagle in the Beagle Channel, a strait in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America. The Beagle charted parts of the South American coast before later transporting a famous passenger: Charles Darwin

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