Images

Sign of Noah's Covenant with God, mosaic from St Paul's Cathedral in London.

An illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) showing the notorious pirate Blackbeard's fight to the death in 1718. From an original oil painting by Pyle. (The illustration first appeared in Pyle, Howard (1894), Jack Ballister's Fortunes, The...

A sketch of an armed pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, New York, Harper and Brothers.

Covenant with Noah, mosaic by Boris Anrep from the Blessed Sacrament chapel of Westminster Cathedral, London.

A depiction of the jötunn master-builder and his horse Svadilfari by Robert Engels, published in Germaniens Götter by Rudolf Herzog, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig, 1919.

Hacienda of Chorrillo, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico.

Abandoned Hacienda, The Silver Mound, Taxco, Mexico.

A map illustrating the military campaigns and the expansion of Mongol territory under the leadership of Genghis Khan after the founding of the Mongol Empire in 1206 until his death in 1227. Genghis Khan (1162-1227) rose from relative obscurity...

An image portraying Baba Yaga's hut. Baba Yaga was said to live in a hut standing on chicken's legs. In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga was a witch who often preys on children to eat them. However, some accounts present her as a wise and helpful...

A sculpture of Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is a character from Slavic folklore who was said to be an evil spirit taking the form of the old woman. She was often portrayed as a caricaturally ugly person with a hooked nose and wrinkled face. The sculpture...