Red: Did you mean...?

A photograph of a group of Red Guards militia outside their factory during the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917. Vulcan factory, Petrograd.

Cao Cao (d. 220 CE), the Chinese warlord, recites a poem prior to the Battle of Red Cliffs. (Summer Palace Beijing)

A photograph of a woman radio operator in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Two British postage stamps bearing the portrait of Queen Victoria (reign 1837-1901). The Penny Black was the world's first postage stamp and issued from May 1840. As it was difficult to see an obliteration stamp (postmark) against a black...

The Battle of Red Cliffs, 208 CE, China, between the Cao Cao and warlords Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

Chief Red Cloud, photo by Heyn, c. 1900. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

Greek red figure stemless cup from Apula, 330-320 BCE, depicting a dancing maenad - female follower of Dionysus - holding a bell and tambourine. (Archaeological Museum, Milan)

Attic red-figure cup (kylix) depicting an athlete ready to throw the javelin, from Vulci (Italy), around 440/430 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin).

The Etruscan death demon Charun escorts the deceased to the Underworld. He is characterised by a heavy hammer and a hooked nose. From Vulci (Italy). Around 300 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

The moulded heads of a satyr and of a woman are joined back-to-back on this kantharos (drinking cup). Drinking from it, the (male) symposiast would have found himself confronted with 2 different images that represent opposites of himself...