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Corcyra (modern Corfu and also known as Kerkyra) located in the Ionian sea is one of the northern most Greek islands and was an important polis or city-state in the Archaic and Classical periods. Possessing...

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare (c. 1564-1616), written in 1610 or 1611, and first performed for the court of James I of England (r. 1603-1625) on 2 November 1611. Believed to be the last play...

Ulysses on the Island of the Goddess Calypso, etching and engraving on laid paper by Willem Basse, 1634. Odysseus (Ulysses) hews timber to construct a raft on the shore of Ogygia, the island on...

Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog (1580-1621), sailed into Shark Bay on Australia’s west coast, 850 kilometres (528 miles) north of Perth on his ship, the Eendracht on 25 October 1616. Hartog...

Portrait of Joseph Wanton Sr. (1705-1780) colonial governor of Rhode Island during the American Revolution. By an unknown artist, currently in Providence Rhode Island.

An 1884-6 oil on canvas, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), the French pointillist painter. The Grande Jatte is a narrow island in the Seine...

A 1590 CE engraving by John White showing the arrival of English colonists in Virginia, the first English colony in North America (modern-day North Carolina). Around 100 settlers created a settlement on Roanoke...

An 1887 oil on canvas, The Seashore, Martinique Island, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. A work that shows the artist's shift towards a bold and vivd palette of pure colours...

Instruments for traditional Pacific Island tattoos: hāhau (tapping stick) made of ulei wood, moli (tattoo tool) made of wood and bone, and apu paʻu (ink bowl), made of jade. Date unknown.

Location of the island of Flores, Indonesia (highlighted in red).