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Archduke Charles of Austria at the Battle of Aspern-Essling, May 1809
Archduke Charles of Austria (center) issues orders during the Battle of Aspern-Essling (21-22 May 1809). At Aspern-Essling, Archduke Charles becomes the first European military commander...
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Maria Reiche
Maria Reiche with a large aerial photo of Nazca Lines. She was a German-born Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist best known for her research into the Nazca Lines. Date of photograph is unknown. Image credit: The Maria Reiche...
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War of the First Coalition
The War of the First Coalition (1792-1797) was a continent-spanning conflict in which a coalition of European powers, including Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and several others, sought to...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer who wrote a wide range of works including piano concertos, string quartets, symphonies, operas, and sacred music. Regarded as one of or perhaps the greatest natural...
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Grand Duchess Maria, 1914
A 1914 photograph of Grand Duchess Maria (1899-1918), daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918). (Boasson and Eggler of Saint Petersburg)
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Maria Spiridonova
A photograph of the Russian revolutionary Maria Spiridonova (1885-1941). Spiridonova led the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (Internationalists) and was elected as chair at the Second Congress of Peasants’ Soviets and of the Constituent...
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Statue of Maria Cunitz
A modern statue of Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), the German-Polish astronomer, in Swidnica in Poland. The figure is holding Cunitz's book Urania Propitia, published in 1650.
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Illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian
Coloured copper-plate engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), the German naturalist and illustrator. From her book Metamorphoses of the Insects of Surinam which was published in 1705.
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Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg
A 1619 portrait by Michiel Jansz of Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (l.1599-1655) who married the king of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (r. 1611-1632) in 1620. (Gripsholm Castle, Södermanland, Sweden)
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Anna Maria Weems as Joe Wright
Anna Maria Weems disguised as "Joe Wright" escaping slavery in Maryland in 1855. Illustration from page 183 of an 1872 edition of The Underground Railroad by William Still.