Images

The leader of fascist Italy Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) delivering a speech in Piazza Duomo in Milan in 1930. (German Federal Archives)

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) at the fascist congress in Naples (24th of October 1922), held as a "general test" for the March on Rome implemented a few days later.

The leader of fascist Italy Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) watch a parade staged in Rome for the German dictator's visit to Italy (6th of May 1938).

Mugshot of the future Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), following his arrest by Swiss police for lack of identification papers (19th of June 1903). Mussolini was wrongly identified as "Benedetto" instead of Benito.

Tadeusz Kościuszko's victory at the Battle of Racławice (1794) against the invading Russian army, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1888. National Museum, Krakow.

Medieval and early modern buildings in Gdańsk (Poland). When these buildings were constructed, Gdańsk was still part of Poland, but the city's inhabitants were mainly German-speakers and called the city Danzig. Photo by Reinhold Möller, 2007...

A map showing the Polish-Lithuanian Republic at its greatest territorial extent (mid-1600s), superimposed onto modern state boundaries, by Samotny Wędrowiec.

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) photographed during his retirement, circa 1860. Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

US President Martin Van Buren, oil on canvas by Henry Inman, circa 1837. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A Whig political cartoon showing the effects of the Panic of 1837. By Henry Dacre, 1838. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.