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Timur Handing the Crown to Babur
This painting establishes the Mughal Dynasty depicting Timur Lane handing the crown to his grandson Babur who has his own son and heir Humayun also present. Legend has it that as Humayun languished at the doors of death with a toxic fever...

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Akbar with a Lion and a Calf
"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album Painting by Govardhan Calligrapher Mir 'Ali Haravi verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50 This portrait of Akbar from the Shah Jahan album by Govardhan depicts a lion and a calf...

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Hamza Kills a Tiger - from the Hamzanama
In the royal House of Books (Ketabkhana), which housed the library as well as being the place where manuscripts were created, Hindustani artists and Persian calligraphers, bookbinders, and illuminators came together to work under two Iranian...

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Hitler at the Gates of Prague Castle
A March 1939 photograph showing Adolf Hitler at the gates of Prague Castle. After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Germany absorbed the Sudetenland but then invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. (German Federal Archives)

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Czechoslovak Fortifications
A photograph showing a part of the fortifications which defended the borders of Czechoslovakia with the Third Reich in September 1938. Near Sedloňov, Czech Republic.

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Chamberlain after the Munich Agreement
A photograph showing the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) arriving at Heston airport after the Munich Agreement of September 1938. Chamberlain is waving a paper signed by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) promising Britain and...

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North American Gray Wolf
A North American Gray Wolf.
Photograph by Gary Kramer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2003.

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Mosaic of Medusa from Sparta
Fragment of a mosaic pavement with the head of Medusa. From Sparta (Greece), dated to the second half of the 3rd century CE.
Archaeological Museum of Sparta, Greece.

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Harthacnut
Harthacnut (r. 1035-1042), miniature from an illuminated manuscript, Royal MS 14 B VI, 14th century.
British Library, London.

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Emma of Normandy
Emma of Normandy, illustration from the Encomium Emmae Reginae (The Encomium Of Queen Emma), MS 33241, c. 1050.
The British Library, London.