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Terracotta acroterion statue of Typhon, the "Father of All Monsters". From Gabii, Italy, 6th century BCE. Typhon was the most powerful of all Greek monsters. He was a winged giant with the head, arms, and torso of a man, had pointed...

Circular antefix of a Gorgon's head made of terracota. From Taranto, dated to the end of the 6th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Taranto. Photo taken at the "Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition at...

Bronze and ivory horse breastplate with the Gorgon's head. From Ruvo, Italy, dated to the end of the 6th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Photo taken at the "Fantastic Creatures of Fear and Myth" exhibition...

Aaron Burr fatally shoots Alexander Hamilton in their duel on 11 July 1804. Illustration from the book Our Greater Country: Being a History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent to the Present Time by Henry Davenport...

The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr on 11 July 1804, which resulted in Hamilton's death. Illustration Beacon Lights of History. Vol. XI, American Founders by John Lord, London: James Clarke and Co. Ltd., 1902.

Portrait of Aaron Burr (1756-1836) in the year before his famous duel with Alexander Hamilton, oil on canvas portrait by John Vanderlyn, 1803. Yale University Art Gallery.

Aaron Burr with his wife Theodosia Bartow Burr (formerly Theodosia Prevost). Oil on canvas by Henry Benbridge, c. 1780s or 1790s. Frick Collection, New York.

Aaron Burr (1756-1836) as vice president of the United States, oil on canvas portrait by John Vanderlyn, c. 1802. New York Historical Society.

An August 1933 photograph showing Heinrich Himmler (centre), head of the SS, and Ernst Röhm (right), leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA), rival paramiliatray groups of the German Nazi party. (German Federal Archives)

A March 1933 photograph showing Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and the German President Paul von Hindenberg (1847-1934). (German Federal Archives)