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Former President Martin Van Buren, daguerrotype by Mathew Brady, around 1849-50. Yale University Library.

As part of Herod the Great's building program, besides the unattached edifices at the entrance to Herod's Harbor, there is material evidence for two other unique structures. One was a low-lying breakwater south of the harbor’s tower-and-wall...

A full-size replica of the lounge area of the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, which was in service from 1936 to 1937. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen.

The German Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg flying over New York, c. 1936.

A photograph of the British airship R 34 landing at Long Island, New York on 6 July 1919 having crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the first airship to do so. (Library of Congress)

John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, oil on canvas by Charles Bird King, c. 1823. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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...