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The Battle of Ferozeshah (aka Forezeshur) on 21-22 December 1845 was one of four major battles during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6) between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company (EIC). The British relentlessly attacked the...

The temptation of the Buddha by Mara's daughters. Slate, Gandhara region, Pakistan, 2nd to 4th century CE. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

A detail of a c. 1512 CE painting by Mathias Grunewald showing a man suffering from St. Anthony's fire (ergotism). 'Temptation of St. Anthony'. (Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France)

The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1888. It depicts the following lines of Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott: And down the river's dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his own mischance...