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The LZ 129 Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, which carried passengers between Europe and the Americas. The Hindenburg measured a massive 804 feet (245 m) in length with a maximum internal frame diameter of 135 feet (41.2 m). The airship...

The dining room of the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, which was in service from 1936 to 1937. German Federal Archives.

The fire that destroyed the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, on 6 May 1937. As the airship arrived at the Lakehurst landing ground in New Jersey, it burst into flames for unknown reasons, igniting its hydrogen-filled gas cells. 36 people...

This map illustrates the four major khanates that emerged from the Mongol Empire in the early 14th century, following the fragmentation of the vast domain once ruled by Genghis Khan (circa 1162 to 1227, reign 1206 to 1227). Although no longer...

The gondola of the German airship Graf Zeppelin, 1930. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin first crossed the Atlantic Ocean in October 1928.

As part of Herod the Great's building program, as they stood atop the free-standing edifices at the entrance to Herod's Harbor, Josephus mentions three colossi on the left and three on the right. (Wars, 1.21.6) Likely bronze images of Caesar...

Inscribed stone boundary marker from Chalkidiki, c.350 to 300 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Thessalonika. It is an example of ancient Greek boundary markers, known as horoi, and it contains an official declaration regarding the new Macedonian...

A contemporary illustration of Cnut the Great and Emma of Normandy donating a cross to the New Minster in Winchester, England. Queen Emma is listed by her English name, Aelfgifu (not to be confused with Cnut's first wife, Aelfgifu of Northampton...

Title page of the first folio of William Shakespeare's plays (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies), published in 1623. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale...

Purported portrait of Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare (1564-1616); drawing on the verso of the original title page in the Third Folio (1663) of Shakespeare's works by Sir Nathaniel Curzon, who claimed to have traced it from...