Taming of the Shrew, 1809, by Washington Allston / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Public Domain In Shakespeare’s...
Month: November 2018
Profile of William Shakespeare, c.1793 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile:...
From the diary / Author provided “This imbecile has us especially close to his heart. He makes...
Dues Vault, Hospitaller fortress in Acre, Israel / Creative Commons Taking a tour through five well-known 13th-century...
The Siege of Calais (1346) / Wikimedia Commons The 13th century was not only a period of...
Outside the Woman’s Building, 1975. The Getty Research Institute, 2018.M.16. Photo: Maria Karras. Gift of Maria Karras....
Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us, but...
Examining the social and economic lives of the Victorian working classes and the poor. By Liza Picard / 10.14.2009...
New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college...
An Arab city of the early medieval period. Urban centers in the Middle East were of a...
Iran has one of the richest art heritages in the world and is home to a number of art...
Grants and Oddities. This patient is shown to have sprouted vegetable offshoots after taking 132 boxes of vegetable...
Frontispiece, most likely by Robert Cruikshank, to The Life and Prophecies of Mother Shipton (1823) / Internet Archive Said...
The Pope, as the head of the Catholic Church, led the single most powerful institution of the...
An equestrian statue of a Julio-Claudian prince, originally identified as Caligula / British Museum, Creative Commons Looking,...
Young Jews praying at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem (Image © Bigstock/kirill4mula) There are approximately 175,000...
Tachara Palace of Darius I, Ancient Persepolis / Photo by Hansueli Krapf, Wikimedia Commons The Persians serve an...
Puerto Rico Photo Post Card by Photographer A. Arguinzoni , a Puerto Rican photographer of Corsican descent,...
Puerto Rico: Capilla del Cristo Old San Juan / Wikimedia Commons Taking a look at the long...
The Little Bighorn Battlefield, Lodge Grass, Montana / Photo by Acroterion, Wikimedia Commons The battle is also...
1904 reunion of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade / Wikimedia Commons A misinterpreted order, near...
Melting away. / Photo by NASA/Kathryn Hansen We’re on the road to even more frequent, more extreme events than we...
Charles Le Brun, The relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation / Wellcome...
Crispin van de Passe’s perfect elephant as featured in his ‘t Light der teken en schilderkonst (1643) / Internet...
When you’re displaced, your home is taken from you. How can you begin to form your identity?...
A native residence in the suburbs of Manila, 1899 / Wikimedia Commons Nativism in postcolonial theory comprises...
Dance bonnet and scalplock of an Omaha Indian / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The legacy and impact of...
Portrait of Assuz, a San Carlos Apache Indian, c 1898 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The pictures...
The inside of a jail of the Spanish Inquisition, with a priest supervising his scribe while men...
Was persecution a consistent imperial policy, and what types of punishments were inflicted on Christians? The Christian Martyrs’...