This painting by Roberto Bompiani captures a common 19th-century association of Roman dining and excess. A Roman...
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Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti on a Farman biplane, Rome 1910. / Wikimedia Commons International History Blog In April...
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Grave Circle A (right) and the main entrance of the citadel (left). Mycenae. / Photo by Andreas...
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The Standard of Ur War Panel, 2600 BCE / British Museum, London Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh...
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25th Amendment, Section 4: “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of...
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Thomas Merton / PBS By Dr. John Smelcer Fellow in English Binghamton University Sometimes the greatest stories...
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Drinking coffee and tea in Early Modern Europe, a depiction of Tom King’s Coffee House, by William...
Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) from the Resurrection fresco, by Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto), c.1494 / Vatican...
The sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks (Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora, c.570-550 BCE) / British Museum,...
From the biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian, c.1095 / Metropolitan Museum of...