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Photograph of a tree severed by bullets, c. 1900s. At the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, on 12 May 1864, an oak bore witness to the hellish melee and relentless rifle fire at the "Bloody Angle," a heavily contested stretch of Confederate...

Portrait of a Mughal Woman, painting by Francesco Renaldi, Calcutta, 1787. British artist Francesco Renaldi travelled to India with the backing of the British East India Company in 1786. He produced various portraits from his time in Calcutta...

Statue of Charles Martel at the Château de Chambord, photograph by Babeth Étiève-Cartwright, France, 30 October, 2025. Charles Martel (r. 718-741) was the illegitimate son of Pepin II (r. 687-714), and his concubine Alpaïde, born while he...

Queen's apartments at the Château de Chambord, photograph by Babeth Étiève-Cartwright, France, 30 October, 2025. Before the royal wing of the Château de Chambord, was completed, this was most likely the bedroom of king Francis I of France...

The key locations, kingdoms, and heroes associated with Homer’s Iliad form a cultural map of the Late Bronze Age Aegean world. Composed in the 8th century BCE and set in the final year of the war between the Achaean coalition and the city...

An April 1918 photograph of Francesco Baracca (1888-1918), Italy's top flying ace during the First World War (1914-18) with 34 victories. He is shown next to his Spad XIII which bears his famous perosnal insignia, the prancing horse.

Sam Houston, President of Texas (1836-1838, 1841-1844), Democratic Senator from Texas (1846-1859). Photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1850. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Sam Houston's grave at Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. The monument was created by Pompeo Coppini, the same sculptor who made the Alamo Cenotaph. Photograph by J. Williams, 2004.

Godwin Brumowski (1889-1936) flew for the Austro-Hungarian air force. Achieving 40 victories, Brumowski was that state's top flying ace during the First World War (1914-18). He is shown next to his plane's insignia. (Imperial War Museums)

The royal House of Hanover, formally the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hanover line, ruled Britain for nearly two centuries (1714–1901), shaping the political and constitutional development of the United Kingdom during a period of imperial...