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The Locarno Pact, actually a group of seven treaties (hence its other name: the Locarno Treaties), was signed on 1 December 1925 with the aim that peace continued in Europe despite the German government's disapproval of the Treaty of Versailles...

The Cadoudal Affair, or the Pichegru Conspiracy, was a failed royalist attempt to kill or kidnap Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), then the First Consul of the French Republic, and restore the House of Bourbon to the French throne. The conspiracy's...

The Sydney Harbour Bridge – affectionately known as The Coathanger by Australians – was opened to great fanfare and a touch of scandal on 19 March 1932 and was the longest steel arch bridge in the world at the time, with a span of 503 metres...

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 - 1. Mars, the Bringer of War · Berliner Philharmoniker · Herbert von Karajan · Gustav Holst Holst: The Planets ℗ 1981 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin Released...

A 19th century CE illustration by Gustav Doré showing the French king Louis IX (r. 1226-1270 CE) and his capture by the army of the Ayyubid Empire during the Seventh Crusade (1248-1254 CE).

A romanticized portrait of Saladin, by Gustav Dore (made in the 19th century).

A photograph of Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929), Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), and Aristide Briand (1862-1932), leaders of the German, British, and French delegations at the Locarno Confrence of 1925 which decided the terms of the Locarno...

A series of silhouettes by Otto Böhler showing various conducting gestures made by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Taken from: Böhler, Otto (1914) Dr. Otto Böhler's Schattenbilder, Vienna, Austria: Wilhelm Lechner, pp. 20, III

A 1921 photograph of the British composers Gustav Holst (1874-1934) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). Taken by William Gillies Whittaker.

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