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The Quasi-War (1798-1800) or 'Half War' was a limited, undeclared naval conflict fought between the United States and the First French Republic. Hostilities arose when French privateers began attacking neutral American shipping, resulting...

It was all very well pocketing other people’s valuables and roistering at rum parties, but life on a pirate ship involved a surprising amount of hard work. Pirates were first and foremost sailors and in the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730...

17th-century Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) navigators were the first Europeans to set foot on Australian soil. Although there is a strong theory that the Portuguese explorer, Cristóvão de Mendonça (1475-1532...

A traditional banco (pounded earth) house, Oualata (Walata), Mauritania.

A 1917 photograph of ex-Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) while under house arrest on the orders of the Bolshevik government. Nicholas here wears his military uniform, but his decision to appoint himself commander-in-chief of the Russian...

Reconstruction of the interior of a typical house in Ҫatalhöyük, a Neolithic proto-city in central Turkey, inhabited between c. 7400 and c. 5600 BCE.

Roman mosaic from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, Italy. In the upper register, a cat clutches a quail. In the lower register, two ducks feed next to an assortment of seafood. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

The watercolour of a fisherman's house by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528 CE). Painted c. 1497 CE. (British Museum, London)

Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgements of God upon Eli's House, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1780. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.

The ruins of the Great House, Kilwa on the Swahili Coast (modern Tanzania). Likely constructed during the reign of al Hasan ibn Suleiman (r. 1320-1333 CE).