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Facing stones in the Kīkīaola irrigation ditch, which is also known as the Menehune Ditch in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii. Construction of the ditch is attributed to the Menehune - a mythical race of dimunitive Hawaiians.

Kīkīaola - also known as the Menehune Ditch - is an irrigation channel ('auwai) on Kauai, Hawaii, said to have been built by the Menehune.

Swedish-born Hawaiian ethnologist and judge, Abraham Fornander (1812-1887). Photograph taken in c. 1878.

Thomas George Thrum (1842-1932), Australian author of the Thrum's Hawaiian Annual.

A map illustrating the span, structure, and context of the 73 miles (118 km) Hadrian's Wall (also called the Vallum Aelii, Aelius being the family name of emperor Hadrian). Built by a force of more than 15,000 soldiers from the three Roman...

Meeting of Jean Cavalier, Camisard leader, and Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France, in Nîmes on 16 May 1704, painting by Jules Salles, c. 1865. Musée des Beaux-arts de Nîmes.

François de Langlade, abbot of Chaila (1647-1702), painting by an unknown artist, 17th century. Musée Ignon-Fabre, Mende.

Jean Cavalier, Camisard leader, painting by Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, 1864. Musée du Désert, France.

The château of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Built in the 14th century for the Dukes of Anjou, it is the only Gothic castle in the Loire Valley.

A modern bust of the Spanish conquistador and chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 - c. 1580). Díaz wrote a famous account, The Conquest of New Spain. The bust is in the town of Medina del Campo in Spain, the birthplace of Díaz.