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During World War II (1939-1945), Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler (rule 1933-1945) carried out the Holocaust, a systematic, state-directed genocide that resulted in the murder of approximately six million Jews, alongside millions of other...

A collection of modern recreations of Stone Age tools. The picture above shows (from top right to bottom left): - A hatchet with a wing spar, used for felling trees - A straight hatchet for shortening smaller pieces of wood (with a piece...

Representation of the Germanic god Ullr (Ull), a figure in Norse mythology, with a bow and skis. From an 18th Century Icelandic manuscript. Collection of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

A modern figure of a leprechaun, the diminutive fairy-goblin of Irish folklore. The youthfulness, hat and red beard are not typical of the medieval character.

A modern statue of Melusine by Serge Ecker in Luxembourg.

A map of modern Central America.

Image of a modern-day Cheyenne Dog Soldier at a Native American Powwow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2008. The Dog Soldiers are one of the military societies of the Cheyenne nation.

A modern depiction of the Lakota Sioux trickster figure Iktomi (also known as Unktomi).

A modern, commercialized Kokopelli figure. Image by Booyabazooka, 2010. This is actually a figure of a kachina flute player which, according to the lore of the Pueblo peoples, is not Kokopelli.

The modern bridge of Lodi that crosses the Adda River. Though this bridge was built in 1864, it gives a sense of what the original bridge may have looked like, which the French Army of Italy had to cross during the Battle of Lodi on 10 May...