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Soviet leaders Red Square, Moscow, USSR celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution / Photo by L.Y....
J. Paul Getty (at left) views a model of the Getty Villa at Sutton Place, his home...
Fragment from an ancient copy of Euclid’s Elements / Pinterest, Creative Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015 Maxine...
William Etty’s Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers,...
By Dr. Bryan C. Keene / 12.14.2015 Adjunct Professor of Art History Pepperdine University As a certified Star Wars fan (thanks...
Photo by kallerna, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics...
The Globe Theatre, Panorama Innenraum, London / Photo by Maschinenjunge, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Kevin Seiffert and...
The painting depicts the end of the 1381 peasant’s revolt, mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The image...
All accounted for in Babylon. Belshazzar’s Feast by Rembrandt. Everett – Art/Shutterstock The number crunchers who helped create our...
Creative Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 06.12.2015 Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics...
German soldiers, some with flowers others waving or rasing their clenched fists, in a railroad car on...
The Battle of Malplaquet, 1709: The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene Entering the French Entrenchments, by Louis...
Miniature gold llama figurine, c. 1500 C.E., Inka, gold, 6.3 x 1 cm, Peru © Trustees of...
Basketry bowl with checkerboard and arrow head motif / Mint Museum Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh /...
Celestial map from 1670, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015...
“John L. Sullivan, champion pugilist of the world” – an E.W. Kemble from 1883, the year that...
Overview of Pueblo Bonito / Photo by John Wiley, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. P. Scott Corbett, et.al. Professor...
Catherine the Great / Public Domain By Dr. Heinz Duchhardt / 08.04.2011 Professor of History Akademie der...
Ostraka from classical Athens nominating the persons of Kallias and Megakles. Cycladic Art Museum, Athens, Greece/Wikimedia Commons For the first...
Photo by Neko412, Pixabay, Creative Commons Scientists have shown the origins of today’s popular ‘tabby’ cat. By Dr. Jan...
By Dr. Joshua J. Mark / 03.07.2018 Professor of Philosophy Marist College Alexandria is a port city located on the...
Evening shoe, beaded silk and leather, Roger Vivier (1907–98) for Christian Dior. 1958-60. © Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Motal cheese is a fresh goat’s milk cheese made primarily in remote mountain areas in Armenia. / Cross...
Adolf Eichmann at his 1961 trial. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Thomas White / 04.23.2018 Visiting Professor...
The Roman Forum / Photo by DannyBoy7783, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lorena Atzeri / 11.20.2017 Akademie der...
Tom Booth, Author provided Turns out the Egyptians weren’t the only ones who mummified their dead. By Dr. Tom Booth / 11.24.2015 Wellcome...
In the 19th century, federal policy shifted from a policy of extermination and displacement to assimilation. The...
Harvard instructor Sunn m’Cheaux worked with 30 Vassal Lane Upper School seventh-graders, teaching them the origin of...
Image via Shutterstock Much of what the English know about the Vikings comes from the court of King Alfred – who didn’t like them much. By Dr. Clare Downham / 04.26.2017...