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A depiction of the first day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 17 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022; superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

A depiction of the second day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 18 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022, superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

Battle of Mouscron, 29 April 1794; part of the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). Painting by Charles Louis Mozin, 1839. Palace of Versailles.

Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, escapes across a brook to avoid capture during the Battle of Tourcoing, 18 May 1794. Image is by an anonymous artist, published in An Accurate...

Facial reconstruction of the Ptolemaic Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII (r. 51-30 BCE). This artistic representation of Cleopatra is primarily based on a bust from the Berlin Altes Museum, widely agreed to...

Memorial of Quintius Sulpicius Maximus, an 11-year-old who won a poetry contest in 95 CE. Porta Salaria, Rome, Italy.

A teacher with three discipuli, relief found in Neumagen near Trier, c. 180-185 CE. Photo of casting in Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

A likely depiction of Pauline Léon (1768-1838), co-founder of the Society of Revolutionary and Republican Women during the French Revolution. Image by Émile Wattier from Augustin Challamel Histoire-musée de la république...

Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), writer and political theorist, portrait by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid, 1813. Palace of Versailles.

Women played a significant role in the French Revolution, exemplified in the Women's March on Versailles, on 5-6 October 1789. Image from the book Stories of the French Revolution by Walter Montgomery, 1893. Library...