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A photograph taken by Fritz Luckhardt of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II (1825-99).

A 1904 photograph of the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Taken by Joseph Gaylord Gessford in New York.

A 1900 portrait by Fritz Erler of the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949). (Private Collection)

An 1888 photograph of the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949).

The former home of the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) in Garmisch, Bavaria.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176 - Prelude (Sonnenaufgang) · Berliner Philharmoniker · Herbert von Karajan · Richard Strauss Strauss, R.: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till...

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group J. Strauss II: An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 · Berliner Philharmoniker · Herbert von Karajan · Johann Strauss II Strauss, J.: An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) ℗ 1981...

Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe...

Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793) was the queen of France during the turbulent final years of the Ancien Régime and the subsequent French Revolution (1789-1799). With the ascension of her husband Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792), she became...

Sir Barry Cunliffe has been Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford for 35 years and is Fellow of the British Academy. In this talk, he discusses his new book "The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe", a masterful...