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Baalbek is an ancient Phoenician city located in what is now modern-day Lebanon, north of Beirut, in the Beqaa Valley. Inhabited as early as 9000 BCE, Baalbek grew into an important pilgrimage site in the ancient world for the worship of...

George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) succeeded the last of the Stuart monarchs, Queen Anne of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714) because he was Anne's nearest Protestant relative. The House of Hanover secured its position as the new ruling...

Louis XVII of France was the regnal name of Louis-Charles de France (l. 1785-1795), the younger son of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) and Queen Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793). Although Louis-Charles never actually reigned as king...

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Anglo-Irish bishop and an empiricist and idealist philosopher. He infamously claimed that no matter exists outside of God and that things only exist outside of our minds and perceptions because God perceives...

The Imperial Castle is Nuremberg's landmark, a symbol for the power and importance of the Holy Roman Empire. Nuremberg (Nürnberg), first documented as a royal estate in 1050, was an important base for the domestic power politics during...

A 1493 illustration from the Nuremberg chronicles showing the construction of Noah's Ark.

Coin commemorating the Declaration of Pillnitz, 1791.

A sketch of a scene from a Greek 5th century BCE red-figure vase depicting the slaying of the one-hundred eyed monster Argus Panoptes by Hermes. (British Museum, London)

Alboin from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 CE, Bavarian State Library

Emperors Zeno I and Anastasius I, folio 141 recto of the Nuremberg Chronicle (c. 1493).