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This is a copper alloy mask which was part of a woman's statue. The eye sockets were inlaid. The chin is long and sharp. The forehead continues upward as a central tang (now broken off). There are two holes at the sides of the upper part...

A half-length portrait of a Maori woman painted by the New Zealand artist Gottfried Lindauer (1839 to 1926 CE). Hinepare is wearing a hei-tiki around her neck, pounamu (greenstone) earring and shark tooth earring, and two huia feathers in...

This historical map depicts the surroundings of Lille and Courtray and is intended to facilitate the understanding of the Battles of Tourcoing and Pont-à-Chin in 1794. It shows the positions of the armies involved during these engagements...

Dig into Operation Paperclip, a secret intelligence program which brought scientists from Nazi Germany to the US after WWII. – In May of 1945 the Third Reich was in chaos. Adolf Hitler was dead and German surrender was imminent. But...

Epidemiologists are always trying to get one step ahead of the next big outbreak - and often the best clues we have come from outbreaks of the past.Hosted by: Stefan Chin

Catherine the Great presided over a golden age of Russian expansion — but was she a dedicated ruler or a ruthless oppressor? – Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia for over three decades, used strategic dalliances, military might, and cutting-edge...

Get to know the life and works of poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who became one of colonial America’s most famous writers. – In 1775, General George Washington received a poem from one of colonial America’s most famous writers...

Dig into the history of the Armenian Genocide, during which the Ottoman Empire killed over 1 million Armenians during WWI. – When an Armenian resistance movement began to form in the 19th century, Sultan Abdul Hamid II took decisive...

The heretics fork was used in the Middles Ages mainly during the Spanish Inquisition. The instrument consists of two forks set against each other that penetrated the flesh under the chin in one end and the upper chest in the other. This...