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A photograph of E.P. Alexander (1835-1910), who was a Confederate officer, chief engineer, signal officer, and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War.

A cemetery for those killed, both Allied and Japanese personnel, in the Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-3) of the Pacific War in WWII (1939-45). Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Photographed by Lt. Robert Porter, 1945.

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 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, London.

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 the Second World...

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).

Japanese war dead after the Battle of Tenaru in August 1942, in the Guadalcanal Campaign (August 1942 to February 1943) in the Solomon Islands during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45). US Marine Corps...