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A political cartoon showing Maximilien Robespierre guillotining the executioner after having already guillotined everyone else in France. A commentary on the Reign of Terror. Unknown author, c. 1794. National Library of France, Paris...

Maximilien Robespierre dressed in the all-black attire of a deputy of the Third Estate, during the Estates-General of 1789 and the National Constituent Assembly. Oil on canvas portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron, after a pastel drawing by Adélaïde...

A scan of a 1936 Australian postage stamp commemorating the opening of the undersea cable from Tasmania (Stanley) to the mainland (Apollo Bay, Victoria) depicting Amphitrite.

Theseus and Amphitrite with Athena looking on, interior of an Attic red-figure cup by the potter Euphronios and the painter Onesimos, from Cerveteri (ancient Caere), Latium, 500-490 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

Poseidon and Amphitrite in the bridal carriage, drawn by two Tritons playing music, on the 'Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus' or 'Statue Base of Marcus Antonius', relief frieze of a monumental statue group base, 2nd half of the 2nd century BCE...

An illustration of the procession of Indian princes at the Delhi durbar of 1877, held to commemorate Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901) being proclaimed Empress of India.

A stained glass window from Bourges Cathedral, France. The scenes show the invention of the relics of Saint Stephen, to whom the cathedral is dedicated.

A Praise Poem of Shulgi (c. 2020-2000 BCE), celebrating the famous run of 200 miles (321.8 km) in one day made by King Shulgi of Ur (r. 2029-1982 BCE). Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois...

The main portal on the western façade of Bourges Cathedral, France. The sculpture above the two doorways shows the Last Judgement and was made around 1240. The figures in the arches represent various angels, martyrs, confessors, and saints.

Nihonbashi Bridge in Edo, print from the collection Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, 1830.