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Prehistoric stilt houses on the bank of the Lake Ledro, Italy.

Clay pot, Polada Culture, Abitato del Lavagnone, Bronze Age, 1800-1600 BCE. Giovanni Rambotti Civic Archaeological Museum, Desenzano del Garda, Italy.

A diagram showing the essential design features of the early atmospheric steam engine designed by Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729) during the Industrial Revolution. Heated water (blue) creates steam (pink) which has a much great volume. When the...

Interior of a reconstructed Bronze Age stilt house. Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany.

Bronze Age village reconstruction. Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany.

Reconstruction of a Neolithic stilt house. Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Themis statue holding the Scales of Justice and a sword in front of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Building (Old Supreme Court) with the Bank of China tower behind.

Allegory of Justice - Themis, oil on canvas by Marcello Bacciarelli, 18th century. National Museum of Warsaw, Poland.

Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon after her marriage to the Duke of Chartres (later Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans). Her eldest son would become Louis Philippe I, King of the French. Oil on canvas portrait by Joseph Duplessis, c. 1777...

Battle of Ushant between British and French fleets on 27 July 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. Oil on canvas painting by Théodore Gudin, 1839. Museum of the History of France, Versailles.