Erik the Red: Did you mean...?

Red-figure vase depicting a bride being prepared for her wedding. Part the Adrano Group, 330-320 BCE. Sicily, Italy. Collection of the Pushkin Museum. (Image has been digitally altered for clarity)

Close-up of a red-figure vase painting depicting a music lesson. In this section, two men play music while a boy and cat (alternately identified as a young panther) sit on the side. Attributed to "The Agrigento Painter"...

Oglala Lakota Sioux chief Red Cloud, black and white photograph by the American photographer John K. Hillers (1843-1925), Washington D.C., 1880. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library...

A PPSh-41 submachine gun, padded jacket, and fur hat, all typical elements of Red Army rifle infantry units during the Second World War (1939-45). (Memorial de la Paix, Caen, France)

Attic red-figure cup (kylix) depicting an athlete ready to throw the javelin, from Vulci (Italy), around 440/430 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin).

Greek red figure stemless cup from Apula, 330-320 BCE, depicting a dancing maenad - female follower of Dionysus - holding a bell and tambourine. (Archaeological Museum, Milan)

A photograph of a woman radio operator in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Two British postage stamps bearing the portrait of Queen Victoria (reign 1837-1901). The Penny Black was the world's first postage stamp and issued from May 1840. As it was difficult to see an obliteration stamp...

A c. March 1942 photograph of a Soviet Red Army unit using a Maxim heavy machine gun. (Imperial War Museums)

The Battle of Red Cliffs, 208 CE, China, between the Cao Cao and warlords Liu Bei and Sun Quan.