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Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) as First Consul of France, oil on canvas by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1804, Curtius Museum, Liège.

This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube, monitor Cern 57503) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first web server on the World Wide Web. It is shown here as displayed in 2005 at Microcosm, the public science museum at CERN where Berners-Lee was...

The first meeting of Washington and Lafayette, Philadelphia, 3 Aug 1777, lithograph, published by Currier & Ives, c. 1876. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The first printed Christmas card, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole (1808-1882) and drawn by John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903) in 1843. One thousand copies of the card were printed. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Original source note...

A replica of the first jail built in Kentucky where the Harpe brothers were briefly held before they escaped. The historical reconstruction of the jail was done by one Isaac Hite and is located in Constitution Square State Historic Site in...

The first glimpse of Petra's Treasury (Al-Khazneh) upon exiting the Siq. The famous façade, known today as the Treasury, was originally a rock-cut tomb with a two-story façade, 24.9 m wide and almost 40 m high. Both stories are embellished...

Interior wall of a house in Pella, Macedonia with coloured plaster in the First Pompeian Style, 2nd century BCE.

The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert by John Lee.

A depiction of the first day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 17 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022; superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

An 1888 oil on canvas, First Spring Flowers, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Back in France after his visit to the Caribbean, the artist has returned to a more impressionist palette and style but uses his...