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The voyage of Aeneas, Trojan prince and hero of The Aeneid, belongs to Rome’s foundation mythology rather than historical record. Composed by Virgil (70–19...

A photograph of E.P. Alexander (1835-1910), who was a Confederate officer, chief engineer, signal officer, and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War.

A 1945 photograph of a cemetery for those killed, both Allied and Japanese personnel, in the Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-3) of the Pacific War in WWII (1939-45). Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

A photograph taken on 15 September 1942 showing the sinking by Japanese forces of the US aircraft carrier Wasp during the Guadalcanal Campaign of the Pacific War in WWII (1939-45). Naval History & Heritage Command

A photograph of a US Consolidated B-24 Liberator flying over Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign of the Pacific War in WWII (1939-45). Imperial War Museums

A photograph of the wreck of the Japanese transport ship Kinugawa Maru, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. The ship was beached and then destroyed by US forces during the Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-3) of the Pacific War in...

Ragnarök, often translated as the “doom” or “fate of the gods”, is the climactic destruction and renewal of the cosmos in Norse mythology. Its best-known continuous account appears in...

An 1896 print illustration by Reinhold Völkel showing the interior of Café Griensteidl in Vienna.

A 1930 photograph of Austrian philosopher and novelist Robert Musil (1880-1942).

A c. 1921 photograph by Max Halberstadt of the Austrian neurologist and thinker Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).