Images

A photograph of the British airship R 34 landing at Long Island, New York on 6 July 1919 having crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the first airship to do so. (Library of Congress)

John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, oil on canvas by Charles Bird King, c. 1823. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

A 1937 photograph (subsequently colourised) showing the LZ 129 Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship which carried passengers between Europe and the Americas. The airship is shown tethered at the Lakehurst landing ground in New Jersey.

A period photograph of the dining room of the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship which was in service from 1936 to 1937. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing the fire which destroyed the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, on 6 May 1937. As the airship arrived at the Lakehurst landing ground in New Jersey it burst into flames for unknown reasons, igniting its hydrogen-filled...

This map illustrates the four major khanates that emerged from the Mongol Empire in the early 14th century, following the fragmentation of the vast domain once ruled by Genghis Khan (circa 1162 to 1227, reign 1206 to 1227). Although no longer...

A 1930 photograph of the gondola of the German airship Graf Zeppelin. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin first crossed the Atlantic Ocean in October 1928.

As part of Herod the Great's building program, as they stood atop the free-standing edifices at the entrance to Herod's Harbor, Josephus mentions three colossi on the left and three on the right. (Wars, 1.21.6) Likely bronze images of Caesar...

Inscribed stone boundary marker from Chalkidiki, c.350 to 300 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Thessalonika. It is an example of ancient Greek boundary markers, known as horoi, and it contains an official declaration regarding the new Macedonian...

A contemporary illustration of Cnut the Great and Emma of Normandy donating a cross to the New Minster in Winchester, England. Queen Emma is listed by her English name, Aelfgifu (not to be confused with Cnut's first wife, Aelfgifu of Northampton...