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An illustration showing Victoria, one of the five ships which made up the fleet commanded by the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22...

St Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle was previously used as a ballroom and is now the location for the Irish presidential inaugurations. The room and its interior date from the 18th century.

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin was established in 1191 and the building you can visit today originates from c. 1220.

According to legend, the flag of the pirate Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718). The skeleton holds an hourglass to signify that the time of those about to be boarded is coming to an end. The bleeding heart warns of the death...

An illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) showing the notorious pirate Blackbeard's fight to the death in 1718. From an original oil painting by Pyle. (The illustration first appeared in Pyle, Howard (1894), Jack Ballister's...

An artist's impression of how the pirate Stede Bonnet (1689-1718) may have looked. Captain Bonnet was known as the 'Gentleman Pirate' since he was a former plantation owner before he turned to piracy...

The fortress built by Jean Le Vasseur from 1642 on the island of Tortuga (Ile de la Tortue), located in northwest Hispaniola (modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Tortuga became a major haven for the buccaneers like...

The villa was constructed at Tibur (modern-day Tivoli) for Emperor Hadrian as a private summer retreat between 118 and 134 CE. One of the most striking and best preserved parts of the Villa are the Canopus and...

Jan Žižka leading his army, illustration from the Jena codex, c. 1490-1510.

A map of the battle of Gaugamela depicting Alexander the Great attacking Darius III, a move that led to victory.