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The Ninth Wave, oil on canvas painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850. Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The painting depicts the sea after a huge night storm and people injured in a shipwreck. The sun's rays illuminate the huge...

Woodcut print of reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541) from c. 1541/1542.

Face reconstruction of King John of England (also called John Lackland, r. 1199-1216), based on his tomb effigy in Worcester Cathedral and contemporary chroniclers describing his physical appearance. During his reign, he lost the Duchy of...

Face reconstruction of Richard I of England (the Lionheart, r. 1189-1199), based on the funerary effigy in Rouen Cathedral. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and...

Face reconstruction of Eleanor of Aquitane (l. c. 1122-1204) based on her effigy from Fontevraud Abbey. She was Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII of France, the Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife...

Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest residential street with original buildings surviving intact in Europe from the mid-14th century.

Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.

Corfe Castle, Dorset, built in the 11th century, with major structural changes made in the 12th century.

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent. Founded in the 6th century, the cathedral was completely rebuilt in the 11th century and then later largely rebuilt in the Gothic style in 1174, with significant eastward extensions to accommodate...

Plaque from a late 9th- or early 10th-century burial at Scar, Sanday in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Orkney Museum. The plaque, carved from one piece of whalebone into the shape of two dragons facing each other, was found in...