Images

A 1934 photograph of the leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42) who headed the various Nazi criminal and secret police services across the Third Reich. (German Federal Archives)

A June 1942 photograph showing the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) at the funeral in Berlin of Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42), a senior Nazi and leader in Bohemia and Moravia who was assassinated by the Czech resistance. (Imperial War Museums...

Washington Irving (1783-1859), photo by M.B. Brady, catalogued in 1861. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

A 1940 photograph of the leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich (1904-42) who acted as the Nazi leader in Bohemia and Moravia and headed the Nazi police services across the Third Reich. (German Federal Archives)

Washington Irving (1783-1859), engraving by John Roffe, c. 1810. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales.

Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, the hero and loser of the Battle of Maldon in 991, Statue by John Doubleday in 2006.

Clay figurine found in Chorvátsky Grob, Late Bronze Age. Slovak National Museum, Bratislava. Moon idols (Mondidole), also known as 'firedogs' (Feuerböcke), were clay figurines shaped like a dog or wolf, whose elongated, backward...

Eastern cottontail rabbit, Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA. Photo by Gareth Rasberry, 2013. The rabbit is understood as a trickster figure by many Native American nations, including the Cherokee...

This map illustrates the rise and development of the Bosporan Kingdom (c. 480 BCE – 341 CE), an ancient state located around the Bosphorus Kimmerios (Kerch Strait), encompassing parts of the eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula. Founded...

A photograph of an autograph taken during the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). The autograph was taken by David H. W. Smith, 1st Battalion London Rifle Brigade. (Imperial War Museums)