Images

Huexotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Book 11, folio 144v, Mexico, 1577. A willow tree, known as huexotl in Nahuatl, grows from a body of curling blue water. Simple...

Pella curse tablet, lead scroll, first half of the 4th century BCE. Writing and dedicating a curse tablet (katadesmos) was an act of practical magic in the Greco-Roman world. Curse tablets were fragmental sheets of lead—or, in rare instances...

Map of Medieval Wales by Owj20.

Family tree of Owain Gwynedd, limited for clarity and relevance, illustration by Liam Groves.

Owain Gwynedd, oil on canvas, Hugh Williams, 1909. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

San Antonio de Bexar movie set built in Bracketville, Texas for the filming of The Alamo (1960), starring John Wayne. Photograph by Betsy Mark, 2004. Figure in photo is Emily Mark, age 9.

The Alamo Chapel Movie Set, Brackettville, Texas. Photograph by Betsy Mark, 2004.

Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga, New York, USA. Photo by Peretz Partensky, 2012.

Scottish folklorist, poet, novelist, and scholar Andrew Lang (1844-1912). Photo by Elliott and Fry, published in Memoirs by Edward Clodd, 1916. Lang is among the many contributors to the Legend of Ticonderoga's continued popularity.

Portrait of Joseph A. Mower, a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1855-1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.