Images

Photograph showing the famed pink and white terraces of New Zealand and the terraced thermal pools on the edge of Lake Rotomahana. Photograph taken by Burton Bros (1866–1914) of Dunedin. The terraces were destroyed in 1886, following the...

Photograph taken by photographer, George Valentine (1852-1890), showing the destruction wrought by the eruption of the volcano, Mount Tarawera (New Zealand) in June 1886. The image shows what was left of the Rotomahana Hotel owned by Joseph...

An 1888 painting by Kenneth Watkins (1847-1933) of the 'phantom canoe' seen on Lake Tarawera, New Zealand on May 31, 1886, eleven days before the eruption of Mount Tarawera in June 1886. To the local Maori population, the sighting was an...

A cake of dried indigo dye. (Collection of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany)

Ruins of an indigo factory at Mongalganj, near Bangaon in West Bengal, India. Indigo was an important cash crop for the East India Company and during the British Raj.

A scene from the 1952 film The Life of Oharu showing a female puppet and handler as used in Japanese puppet theatre.

A statue of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), the Japanese playwright. Chikamatsu Park in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture.

A scene from a modern production of Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s most famous historical play, Kikusenya Kassen ('The Battles of Coxinga'), written in 1715.

Self-portrait by Chikamatsu Monzemon (1653-1725 CE), the Japanese playwright.

The Battle of Thymbra (547 BCE) was the decisive engagement between Cyrus II (the Great, r. c. 550-530 BCE) of Persia and Croesus (r. 560-546 BCE), King of Lydia. The Persian victory, achieved in part by the use of camels, ended the Kingdom...