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Empress Wu Zetian (Empress Consort Wu, Wu Hou, Wu Mei Niang, Mei-Niang, and Wu Zhao, l. 624-705 CE, r. 690-704 CE) was the only female emperor of Imperial China. She reigned during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) and was one of the most effective...

On May 29, 1914 the Norwegian ship the SS Storstad collided with transatlantic liner the RMS Empress of Ireland. The Empress was equipped with watertight compartments and unlike the Titanic which had sunk two years earlier it carried more...

Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great) was empress regent of Russia from 1762-1796. She was born in Prussia to Prince Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690-1747) and Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1712-1760), and...

Matilda of Tuscany (c. 1046-1115), pictured seated in the center, included in her biography Vita Mathildis, written by Donizone (left), 12th century. Vatican Library, Vatican City.

A December 1941 photograph of a disabled British Matilda tank near Tobruk during the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany (c. 1046-1115 CE) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680 CE). St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

Beatrice, mother of Matilda of Tuscany (c. 1046-1115) as depicted in the Vita Mathildis by Donizo, 1115. Ms. Vat. lat. 4922, fol. 30. Vatican Library.

A statue of Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of England and wife of William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1087), built by French Artist Carle Elshoecht, 1850, in Luxembourg Garden, Paris.

A January 1941 photograph showing a British Matilda tank with a captured Italian flag and its way to Tobruk. The attack on Tobruk was part of Operation Compass (9 Dec 40 - 7 Feb 41), the Allied offensive which won several important victories...

David I of Scotland reigned from 1124 to 1153 CE. Taking over from his elder brother Alexander I of Scotland (r. 1107-1124 CE), David continued to consolidate the kingdom of Scotland as a single nation, built castles and monasteries, and...