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India in the Vedic Age, 1500 BCE-500 BCE
A map illustrating the evolution of the cultures on the northern Indian subcontinent with the arrival of the Aryan nomads during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age known as the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), when the Vedic literature...
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Early-18th Century Flintlock Pistol
A flintlock pistol, c. 1700-1730. English lock and stock. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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Sign of Noah's Covenant
Sign of Noah's Covenant with God, mosaic from St Paul's Cathedral in London.
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Blackbeard's Death by Pyle
An illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) showing the notorious pirate Blackbeard's fight to the death in 1718. From an original oil painting by Pyle. (The illustration first appeared in Pyle, Howard (1894), Jack Ballister's Fortunes, The...
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An Armed Pirate by Howard Pyle
A sketch of an armed pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy by Howard Pyle (1853-1911).
From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, New York, Harper and Brothers.
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Covenant with Noah
Covenant with Noah, mosaic by Boris Anrep from the Blessed Sacrament chapel of Westminster Cathedral, London.
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Svadilfari and his Master
A depiction of the jötunn master-builder and his horse Svadilfari by Robert Engels, published in Germaniens Götter by Rudolf Herzog, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig, 1919.
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Hacienda Chorrillo, Taxco
Hacienda of Chorrillo, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico.
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Abandoned Hacienda, Taxco
Abandoned Hacienda, The Silver Mound, Taxco, Mexico.
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Map of the Campaigns & Empire of Genghis Khan
This map illustrates the rapid military conquests and territorial expansion of the Mongol Empire under the leadership of Genghis Khan (circa 1162 to 1227, reign 1206 to 1227), from the empire's founding in 1206 until his death in 1227. Rising...
