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Katō Kiyomasa, portrait by Kondō Shōsen, Meiji to Showa era (19th to 20th century). Kiyomasa (1562-1611), a daimyō of the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods, is depicted as a fierce general with a warrior-like beard and a stern expression...

A group of miners in the De Beers diamond mines in Kimberley, Southern Africa, photograph by J.E.M., 1896. Wellcome Collection.

A photograph of the Big Hole, a human-made excavation at the diamond mines of Kimberley, South Africa. The deep crater measures over 450 metres (1,500 ft) across.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, photograph by the White House Photographic Office, Washington D.C., 29 September, 1983. UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seen here with US President Ronald Reagan during a state visit to the White...

British troops landing on the Falklands at San Carlos, photograph by Graham Colbeck, The Falklands, May 1982. An amphibious assault at San Carlos was carried out by UK forces during the Falklands War (April-June 1982) in order to surround...

Brighton Hotel after IRA bombing, unknown photographer, uploaded by D4444n, Brighton, 12 October 1984. Image of the Grand Hotel in Brighton on the morning of the IRA attack, hours after the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Margaret...

Poll tax riot at Trafalgar Square, photograph by James Bourne, London, 31 March 1990. Margaret Thatcher's poll tax was a controversial new fiscal policy she attempted to implement in her final year as prime minister. Although the negative...

Portugal established the first and longest-lasting of Europe’s overseas empires, developing a maritime-commercial network that connected the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans from the 15th century onward. Under rulers such as João I (reign...

Ibn Battuta ((Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī, 1304–c. 1368 CE) was a traveler, jurist, and scholar from Tangier whose journeys across Afro-Eurasia remain among the most extensive recorded in the medieval world. Beginning in...

Uncollected trash during dustmen's strike, photograph by Henry Grant, Camden, London, February 1979. In the late months of 1978 and early days of 1979, uncharacteristically cold and turbulent weather, combined with nationwide strike actions...