Images

Many scholars, without concrete evidence, believe that Leo Africanus 1485-1554 was the inspiration behind William Shakespeare’s Othello, shown here with Desdemona in an 1849 painting by Théodore Chassériau, currently in the Louvre Museum...

Portrait of a Humanist by Sebastiano del Piombo c. 1520. The identity of the person is unknown. Dietrich Rauchenberger has suggested that the painting may depict Leo Africanus (1485-1554).

A photograph of Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) with his son David (b. 1928). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of Captain Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), on the right, during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of the interior of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's (1887-1976) command caravan, which was mounted on a truck and used on various campaigns during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1943 photograph of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) during the Italian campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

The Three Estates of pre-revolutionary France were the hierarchical social divisions that structured society under the Ancien Régime (French for "Old Regime," a term coined after the French Revolution to describe the pre-revolutionary system...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World represent the pinnacle of human creativity, ambition, and engineering skill in classical antiquity. Compiled by Greek scholars during the Hellenistic period (c. 3rd century BCE), the list celebrated...

A 1942 photograph of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) and the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1891-1944). (German Federal Archives)

A 1917 photograph of the German commander Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) during the First World War (1914-18) when he led a specialist mountain unit.