1903 photo of Empress Dowager Cixi and her attendants (Life, Sept. 23, 1966). She was a powerful and charismatic woman who unofficially but effectively controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty …
King Christian IX of Denmark with all of his six kids. 1903. From top (starting left): King George I of Greece, Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, Crown Prince Frederick …
Danish girls celebrating the Liberation of Denmark from the German occupation, 1945
Duchess of Devonshire’s Jubilee Costume Ball 1897
Formal photograph of Grand Duchesses Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna taken in 1914.
Franz Kafka Colorized
Inquisitions (AD1300-1400s) were the church’s effort to eradicate Christian Cathar heresy. They went around from town to town finding people they believed were practicing Cathar version of Christianity and …
Hiroshima, directly after the fog cleared. Catholic Church in foreground, 1945
An array of ancient Roman surgical instruments discovered at Pompeii, on display at Naples Museum, circa 1910.
Robert, Duke of Wurttemberg, 1905. ‘Nuff said.
