Images

Silver coin from the Roman Crete, 97-117 CE. The British Museum, London. After the Roman conquest of Crete in 66 CE, emperors sympathetic to Greek culture, such as Trajan and Hadrian, focused on renovating and developing public...

An 1892 illustration of the whale Moby Dick from an early edition of the novel of that name by Herman Melville (1819 – 1891). By Augustus Burnham Shute.

An 1870 oil-on-canvas portrait by Joseph Oriel Eaton of the US author Herman Melville (1819 – 1891). (Houghton Library, Harvard University)

A 1945 photograph of Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), once deputy leader of the German Nazi Party, in his prison cell during the Nuremberg Trials. (U.S. Army Signal Corps - Library of Congress)

A c. 1924 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) on the far left and Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), second from right. (Imperial War Museums)

A 1933 photograph of Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), deputy leader of the German Nazi Party. (German Federal Archives)

Jack Lang (1876-1975), premier of New South Wales, Australia, smoking his trademark pipe. Photo taken in 1930. National Library of Australia.

Hell Gate Bridge, New York, designed by Gustav Lindenthal (1850-1935) and opened in March, 1917.

Tecumseh leads his Native American warriors into battle for the last time at the Battle of the Thames (5 October 1813). Reproduction of a watercolor by Charles William Jefferys, published in The Story of Tecumseh by N. Gurd, 1912.

Tecumseh's death at the Battle of the Thames (5 October 1813), lithograph by N. Currier, 1846. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.