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Battle of New Orleans
A 1910 print by Edward Percy Moran of the Battle of New Orleans. On 8 January 1815, the U.S forces, commanded by General Andrew Jackson, successfully defended the city against an attack by a British force. (Library of Congress)
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Lord Byron
A detail of a c. 1835 portrait by Thomas Phillips of Lord Byron (1788-1824) wearing Albanian clothing. (National Portrait Gallery, London)
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The Lafitte Brothers in Dominique You's Bar
A c. 1821 painting attributed to John Welsey Jarvis of the pirate brothers Pierre and Jean Lafitte (also spelt Laffite, c. 1780-1820/26) who operated in the Gulf of Mexico from 1810 to 1820. (Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans)
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Portrait of Jean Lafitte
A 19th-century portrait of the Franco-American pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 - c. 1821). (Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas)
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The Spanish Main & the West Indies c.1720
A map illustrating the changing balance of colonial power among the Spanish, English, and French Empires in the 1700s along the coastlines of the Americas, specifically in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. This region, referred to...
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Tepe Sialk, Iran
Tepe Sialk is an archeological site (a tepe, "hill, tell") near Kashan in central Iran consisting of two hills with six main phases of occupation. The oldest settlements in Sialk date to around 6000–5500 BCE while the ziggurat was constructed...
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View of Meybod from Narin Castle, Iran
Meybod is a desert city in the Yazd Province of Iran. It is an ancient city that goes back to the pre-Islamic era. In its stands Narin Castle, a mud-brick fort said to date from the time of the Achaemenids, although most of what can be seen...
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Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan
Naqsh-e Jahan Square is a public urban square situated at the centre of Isfahan in Iran. Constructed by Shah Abbas I the Great at the beginning of the 17th century CE, it is now an important historical site and one of UNESCO's World Heritage...
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Yazd, Iran
Yazd is the capital of Yazd Province in Iran. Nicknamed the "City of Windcatchers", Yazd is well known for its Zoroastrian fire temples, ab anbars (cisterns), qanats (underground channels) and yakhchals (coolers). Since 2017, the historical...
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Zoroastrian Towers of Silence in Yazd
The Towers of Silence were used in Zoroastrianism. In the Zoroastrian tradition, corpses were left out exposed to the elements on structures commonly called Towers of Silence to prevent them from being contaminated by demons. Once the body...