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A Buccaneer by Howard Pyle
An early 20th-century illustration by Howard Pyle showing a buccaneer. The buccaneers terrorized the Spanish Main from 1620 to 1697. (From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish...
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Buccaneers Searching for Loot
An early 20th-century illustration by Howard Pyle showing buccaneers obliging prisoners to reveal the whereabouts of their valuables in Cartagena. The buccaneers terrorized the Spanish Main from 1620 to 1697. (From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates...
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The Princes Fire their Arrows
Illustration from the Russian folktale The Frog Princess, by Ivan Bilibin, 1899.
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Ivan Meets the Frog
Illustration from the Russian folk tale The Frog Princess, by Ivan Bilibin, 1930.
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Silver Bust of Serapis
Silver bust of the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, Roman, 2nd century CE.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Preparation for the Gospel by Eusebius
Eusebius' Preparation for the Gospel, edited by Franciscus Vigerus, published by Michael Sonnius, Sebastian Cramoisy & Charles Morel, Paris, 1628.
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Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus, which may contain Constantine I’s original Bible.
Photo taken in Warsaw in 2015.
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The Fair Melusine
The Fair Melusine, oil on canvas painting by German artist Julius Hübner, 1844. National Museum, Poznan. The painting depicts the moment in the legend when Raymondin spies on his wife, Melusine, and discovers she is half-serpent on Saturdays...
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Modern-day Statue of Melusine, Luxembourg
A modern statue of Melusine by Serge Ecker in Luxembourg.
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Melusine's Secret Discovered
Melusine's secret discovered, illustration from folio 19 of the illuminated manuscript Français 24383 of The Romance of Melusine by Jean d'Arras, 15th century.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
