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Prince Ferdinand courts Miranda in Act I Scene II of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest; Prospero stands over the shoulder of Miranda, while Caliban carries wood, and Ariel hovers above the scene. Oil on canvas by William Hogarth, c...

Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). By Johann Heinrich Ramberg, c. 19th century. Cornell University.

The two lovers, Miranda and Ferdinand, gather wood in Act III Scene I of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, as Prospero watches in the background. Oil on canvas by Angelica Kauffmann, 1782. Belvedere, Vienna.

Shipwreck scene (Act I Scene I) in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). Engraving by Benjamin Smith, based on a painting by George Romney, September 1797. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Minoan ivory scepter discovered in Crete in 2024 is engraved with the longest Linear A inscription ever found. The inscription consists of approximately 119 signs covering the entire surface of the circular head and both sides of the...

Miranda, the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, watches the shipwreck in Act I, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1916.

Miranda, a portrait of the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest looking pensively out at the sea, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1875.

Ariel, a spirit in service to Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1800. The Folger Shakespeare Library.

Carte détaillant le massacre d'Oradour-sur-Glane qui eut lieu le 10 juin 1944, près de Limoges dans le sud-ouest de la France. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-45), 643 hommes, femmes et enfants innocents furent tués par des soldats...

An October 1942 photograph showing civilians collecting the dead during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in the...