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This photo is an aerial view of the martyred village of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges in south-west France where 643 innocent civilians were killed on 10 June 1944 during the Second World War (1939-45). The massacre took place in possible...

Helmut Kämpfe (31 july 1909-10 june 1944) was a German officer (Sturmbannführer) in the Waffen SS during the Second World War (1939-1945). He was captured on 9 June while driving alone ahead of his men near the town of Sauviat-sur-Vige, near...

Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, British Colony of South Carolina, 1769.

Slave ship model, which "shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and revolts. In the grisly arithmetic of the...

Olaudah Equiano (l. c. 1745-1797), the abolitionist writer, by the English artist Daniel Orme (l. 1766-1837), frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography (published 1789).

A March 1943 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany, alongside several of his generals as they study maps of the Eastern Front during the German-Soviet War of the Second World War (1939-45). The generals are (L...

In Act IV Scene I of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, Sir Toby Belch rushes to the assistance of Sir Andrew Aguecheek, who is being beaten bloody by Sebastian. Oil on panel by Arthur Boyd Houghton, c. 1854. Folger Shakespeare...

Sebastian and Olivia agree to marry one another in Act IV of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. Painting by W. Hamilton, engraving by W. Angus, 18th century. Shakespeare Print Collection.

A 1937 photograph of the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, initially called the 'Foro Mussolini' after Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy. It was designed in 1927 by architect Enrico Del Debbio, and then inaugurated...

This map illustrates the exploration of the continent of Antarctica from the first voyages of the 18th century to the research stations of the 21st century. The map also shows the varied and competing national claims to slices of the Great...