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Aristophanes wrote in the 5th century BCE about coin hoards in Athens. He joked about the common saying, "No one knows but the birds where I hid my money," which led buffoons in his play to follow birds around with a shovel, hoping to excavate...

Sima Qian (l. 145/135-86 BCE) was a court scribe, astrologer, and historian of the Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 220 CE) of ancient China, famous for his historical work Records of the Grand Historian for which he is remembered as the Father of...

The dead body of Lakota Sioux Chief Spotted Elk (also known as Big Foot, l. 1826-1890) lies in the snow after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890. US National Archives and Records Administration.

Lakota Sioux holy man and leader, Sitting Bull, in 1885. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

A photograph showing troops of the 1st US Infantry Division, 5th US Corps attacking Omaha beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

A photograph showing Adolf Hitler in Paris after the Fall of France in 1940. On the left is Albert Speer (Hitler's favourite architect and future Armaments Minister) and on the right is Arno Breker (architect and sculptor). Taken on 23 June...

Chief Morning Star (also known as Dull Knife) of the Northern Cheyenne (l. c. 1810-1883). US National Archives and Records Administration.

Lakota Sioux War Chief Gall, photographed by David Francis Barry at Fort Buford, North Dakota, 1881. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Engraving of Benedict Arnold by Henry Bryan Hall, after an original painting by John Trumbull; 1879. National Archives and Records Administration.

A depiction of the Battle of Camden (16 August 1780), showing the moment when General Johann de Kalb is mortally wounded. Kalb is depicted lying on the ground in the center, getting bayoneted. Engraving from a painting by Alonzo Chappel...