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Sugar skull, moulded of white sugar candy and adorned with icing and foil, c. 1979. The decorative candy skull (calavera de azucar) is a common sight at Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) festivities, a widely observed holiday in Mexico...

First anniversary of Hachikō's death, photograph included in Showa Day by Day (Volume 4), p. 53, by Kondansha Co., 8 March 1936. Hachikō was an Akita dog belonging to Hidesaburō Ueno, an agricultural scientist, who died in 1925 from a cerebral...

Child Asleep in a Cradle Under the Care of a Brave Dog Who Just Killed Near Him a Huge Viper, oil on canvas painting by Jeanne Élisabeth Chaudet, c. 1801. Inspired by a late 18th-century book of fables, the story depicted in the painting...

Lorenzo the Magnificent Receives the Tribute of the Ambassadors, fresco painting by Giorgio Vasari, c. 1556-1558. This fresco shows a crowd of ambassadors giving gifts to Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent, as he sits on a raised throne...

Hannibal Crossing the Alps on Elephants, oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1625-1626. Hannibal Barca, famed Carthaginian general, crossed the Alps in 218 BCE during the Second Punic War. The crossing was planned as a move that...

Alexander the Great on Bucephalus, bronze equestrian monument by Evangelos Moustakas, photograph by Franco R. Batista Garcia, Thessaloniki, 10 September 2025. Following the assassination of Philip II of Macedon in October 336 BCE, his son...

A photograph of Imperial Germany's gunboat Panther, which was involved in the 1911 Agadir Crisis, the second of two Moroccan Crises which marred Franco-German relations prior to the First World War (1914-18).

A photograph taken on 31 March 1905 showing Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) parading through Tangier, Morocco on horseback. The Kaiser's presence was part of the Moroccan Crises which marred French and German relations prior to the First World...

Portrait of Antonio López de Santa Anna, daguerreotype by Meade Brothers, c. 1855. Santa Anna (1794-1876) was a central figure in the political and military course of Mexican history in the first half of the 19th century, where he served...

Alamo, Built in 1718, San Antonio, Texas, colorized postcard published by Nic Tengg, c. 1907-1914. The Alamo, originally a Spanish mission, was a fortress garrisoned first by the Spanish, then the Mexican Army after the Mexican War of Independence...