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A decimal clock manufactured during the French Revolution. Decimal time is measured on the inside of the clock while duodecimal time is on the outside, late 18th/early 19th century.

Representation of the month of Messidor, the tenth month in the French Republican Calendar meaning "month of harvest", by Louis Lafitte. National Library & Bureau of Measures.

Depiction of Floréal, the eighth month of the French Republican Calendar, the "month of flowers", by Salvatore Tresca and Louis Lafitte, 1797-1798.

An 1808 coloured print showing the docks of the East India Company, known as the East India Docks, at Blackwall in London. (British Museum, London).

Titulus Crucis, a wooden plaque, allegedly part of the relics discovered by Helena of Constantinople. Church of the Holy Cross, Rome.

Ecce Homo!, oil on canvas by Mihály Munkácsy, 1896. Déri Museum, Debrecen.

Christ in front of Pilate, oil on canvas by Mihály Munkácsy, 1881. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.

Chronos and His Child, a depiction of the Titan Cronus as "Father Time," wielding a harvesting scythe, oil on canvas by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 17th century. National Museum, Warsaw.

Charlotte Corday, dubbed the "Angel of Assassination" for her murder of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution. Portrait by François-Séraphin Delpech, c. 19th century.

Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), an activist, journalist and Jacobin leader during the French Revolution (1789-1799), oil on canvas by Joseph Boze, 1793. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.