Search Results: Alix wood

An engraving of the harpies in the Forest of Suicides by Gustave Doré illustrating Canto XIII of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri.

These fragments are from a set of six maple wood bottles or flasks, perhaps used for medium-strength alcoholic drinks, like mead or ale. Maple trees were uncommon in East Anglia, so their wood may have been highly prized. The gilded silver...

Detail of Gathering of Gypsies in the Wood, oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Museo Del Prado, Madrid.

Raised in the Bay Area, Christopher received his B.A. in Classics from San Francisco State and his Masters in Anthropology from the University of California Santa Barbara. Over the years he has devoted his time to working as an archaeologist...

Mary Prince (l. c. 1788 to c. 1833) was the first enslaved Black woman to publish an autobiography/slave narrative. Prince was illiterate but dictated her life story to the writer Susanna Strickland (l. 1803-1885), published in 1831 as The...

Aaron Burr (1756-1836) was an American politician and lawyer, who served as the third vice president of the United States (1801-1805). His reputation as a US Founding Father was marred by his killing of political rival Alexander Hamilton...

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by President John Adams and the Federalist-controlled Congress in 1798 that restricted immigration and free speech in the United States. Framed by the Federalist Party as a necessary measure...

Paul Barras (1755-1828), a prominent French leader during both the Thermidorian Reaction and the French Directory, a politician known for his cunning. Here he is depicted in the ceremonial robes of a French Director. The painting was by Pierre-Michel...

Homo habilis ("handy man") is an extinct species of human that lived in East and South Africa between 2.3 and 1.5 million years ago and plays an interesting role in the discussion surrounding the dawn of our genus of Homo, which is thought...

John Marshall (1755-1835) was an American lawyer and statesman, who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 until his death in 1835. Considered one of the most influential chief justices in US history...