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Caricature depicting the separation of the church and the state, published in Le Rire, 1905. National Library of France, Paris.

Prunksaal (State Hall) is the central structure of the old imperial library and part of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria. It was build between 1721-1723 and it housed about 200,000 books.

Portrait of James Monroe as Secretary of State in 1816, the year he was elected president of the US. Oil on canvas portrait by John Vanderlyn, 1816. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

A 1904 photograph of the state funeral procession in Prague of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).

A photograph by Josef Löwy of the Vienna State Opera House, taken around 1898 when the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was its director.

John Quincy Adams as secretary of state; oil on panel by Gilbert Stuart, 1818. White House, Washington, D.C.

In Principio window, photograph by Sena Bolek, 2025. A stained-glass window on the northern side of the Mitchell Vestibule at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The In Principio...

The Latin Empire (Imperium Romaniae, 1204–1261) emerged after the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) captured and sacked Constantinople in April 1204, replacing...

The Grand Embassy was the name given to the long Western European tour that Tsar Peter I of Russia (aka Peter the Great, r. 1682-1725) undertook during 1697-1698. Peter was joined by hundreds of people, including...

The social contract is an idea in philosophy that at some real or hypothetical point in the past, humans left the state of nature to join together and form societies by mutually agreeing which rights they would enjoy and how they...