Images

A photograph of a number of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-6. Front row (L to R): Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachimvon Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel Rear row (L to R): Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von...

The first page of George Washington's Farewell Address, published on 19 September 1796 near the end of his second term as president of the United States. Image courtesy of the United States Library of Congress's Religion and the Founding...

Gold signet ring showing one female and two male figures before a temple, from Phourni, Crete, c. 1700-1450 BCE. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Minoan religion is characterized by the prominent role of female figures...

Silver coin from the Roman Crete, 97-117 CE. The British Museum, London. After the Roman conquest of Crete in 66 BCE, emperors sympathetic to Greek culture, such as Trajan and Hadrian, focused on renovating and developing public...

An 1892 illustration of the whale Moby Dick from an early edition of the novel of that name by Herman Melville (1819 – 1891). By Augustus Burnham Shute.

An 1870 oil-on-canvas portrait by Joseph Oriel Eaton of the US author Herman Melville (1819 – 1891). (Houghton Library, Harvard University)

A 1945 photograph of Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), once deputy leader of the German Nazi Party, in his prison cell during the Nuremberg Trials. (U.S. Army Signal Corps - Library of Congress)

A c. 1924 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) on the far left and Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), second from right. (Imperial War Museums)

A 1933 photograph of Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), deputy leader of the German Nazi Party. (German Federal Archives)

Jack Lang (1876-1975), premier of New South Wales, Australia, smoking his trademark pipe. Photo taken in 1930. National Library of Australia.