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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).

An August 1942 photograph showing Japanese war dead after the battle of Tenaru in the Guadalcanal Campaign (August 1942 to February 1943) in the Solomon Islands during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45...

A photograph of US Marines defending Edson Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign (August 1942 to February 1943) in the Solomon Islands during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45).

William Howard Russell ( 1825-1907), the English journalist who reported on the Union retreat from the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) on 21 July 1861 during the American...