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Frontpage of the Italian newspaper 'Corriere Illustrato della Domenica', depicting a group of Askaris, Italian colonial troops, in a battle against the Sultan of Raheita. ('The Rebellion of the Sultan of Raheita. The Victory of Our Ascari'...

Italian troops shooting in Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War (1911). From Lombardi Historical Collection.

Umar al-Mukhtar (1858-1931), leader of the Libyan resistance to the Italian colonisation, with a group of resistance fighters.

Picture of a group of children of Turkish officials deported and detained in Caserta. L'Illustrazione italiana n° 46, 12 November 1911.

Giovanni Giolitti (1842 - 1928) was one of the protagonists of Italian politics, having been prime minister of Italy for five times. Giolitti was a master of the so-called trasformismo, the method of creating a flexible governing coalition...

The fruit of the breadfruit plant, Artocarpus incisa.

Bounty II, a replica of the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty which was famously taken over by mutineers in 1789 in Polynesia.

A protrait of William Bligh (1754-1817), the British naval officer most famously associated with the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. Painting by John Condé. (National Maritime Museum)

A painting by William Hodges of Maitavie Bay, Tahiti in 1776. The ships are Resolution and Adventure under the command of Captain James Cook. (Royal Museums Greenwich)

The entrance hall of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin, designed by the architectural firm of Deane, Son & Woodward, 1853-1857. Photograph by Sena Bolek, 2025. The hall houses large pillars, balustrades, and bannisters crafted...