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Wheel of the Year
Painted Wheel of the Year from the Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle.

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Boissy d'Anglas Saluting the Head of Deputy Féraud, 1 Prairal Year III (20 May 1795)
Boissy d'Anglas saluting the head of deputy Féraud, 1st Prairal Year III (20 May 1795), during the Prairial Uprising. Although d'Anglas is depicted in this painting, the president of the Convention during the uprising was actually Théodore...

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Insurrection on 1 Prairial Year III
Insurrection on 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795), engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman and Jean Duplessis-Bertaux after Charles Monnet, 1796.
National Library of France, Paris.

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Bonaparte's Guns Fire on the Royalist Mob, 13 Vendémiaire Year IV
General Napoleon Bonaparte's guns fire into a mob of royalist insurrectionists during the Revolt of 13 Vendémiaire Year IV (5 October 1795), the famous "whiff of grapeshot". Drawing by Felician Myrbach, 19th century.

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Life of Emperor Nerva #12 First of the Best Emperors
Emperor Nerva is the first of the 'Five Good Emperor'. However, his reign proved to be fairly lackluster and he only reigned for 15 months and during his short time on the throne, his Praetorian Guards took him hostage and forced him to give...

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French Republican Calendar
The French Republican calendar, also known as the French Revolutionary calendar, was created during the French Revolution (1789-1799) in an attempt to build a new society separate from the vestiges of the Ancien Régime. First implemented...

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Four Monks by Rinaldi
A painting of four monks by Claudio Rinaldi (1852-1909 CE). (Dorotheum, Munich)

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, oil on canvas painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887.
Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture, Moscow.

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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
A map illustrating the four voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas between 1492 and 1504 superimposed on a scheme of the predominant ocean currents and winds of the North Atlantic.

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Four-Room House Model
Four-Room House (or Israelite Pillared House), Iron Age