Images

An aerial view of Gold Beach during the D-Day Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944. The smoke is from German defensive positions struck by Allied naval and air bombardment. (Imperial War Museums)

The Bath at Leuk, oil on canvas by Hans Bock the Elder, c. 1597. Kunstmuseum Basel

Bodies in the Middle Ages exhibition in the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich.

Bodies in the Middle Ages, exhibition in Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich.

A model of a 150-mm gun casement located at Longues-sur-mer on Gold Beach of the D-Day Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. (The Mémorial de Caen)

A captured German bunker with 50-mm gun at Gold Beach, attacked during the D-Day Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

Hamida Banu Begum (c. 1527 to 29 August 1604), wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun, mother of Emperor Akbar, miniature painting, opaque watercolor or gouache on paper, Lucknow School of painting, c. late 19th century.

A beardless Roman magistrate wearing a toga beside a capsa, white marble statue from Baetica, 1st-2nd centuries CE. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn of June 25-26 1876, deerskin painting by an unknown Cheyenne artist, c. 1878. National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.

North American Bald Eagle at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Photo by Nirajha, 2010.