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Bible [videos]

The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures. Varying parts of the Bible are considered to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans by Christians, Jews, Samaritans, and Rastafarians …

The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible

The Isaiah scroll, which is a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah. It dates from the 2nd century BCE.

Maserati [videos]

Maserati is an Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer established on 1 December 1914, in Bologna. The Maserati tagline is "Luxury, sports and style cast in exclusive cars", and the brand's mission statement is to "Build ultra-luxury performance automobiles with timeless Italian …

Maserati headquarters in Modena, Italy

Ettore, Bindo, Ernesto, and Alfieri Maserati

Piazza Maggiore's Neptune and his trident

Juan-Manuel Fangio driving a Maserati 250F.

Grace Kelly [videos]

Grace Patricia Kelly was an American film actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956. — After embarking on an acting career in 1950, when she was 20, Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions and more …

Grace Kelly, c. 1956

The Kelly family home built by John B. Kelly in 1929, in the East Falls section of Philadelphia

The cast of Mogambo (1953)

Kelly in a promotional photograph for Rear Window (1954)

Gold dollar [videos]

The gold dollar or gold one-dollar piece is a gold coin that was struck as a regular issue by the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1849 to 1889. The coin had three types over its lifetime, all designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre. The Type 1 issue has the smallest diameter of any …

James B. Longacre, self-portrait (1845)

The head of Liberty on the Type 1 dollar resembles that on Longacre's Liberty Head double eagle.

Open wreath

Closed wreath

Marco Polo [videos]

Marco Polo was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice. His travels are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels …

Corte del Milion is still named after the nickname of Polo, "Il Milione".

Mosaic of Marco Polo displayed in the Palazzo Doria-Tursi, in Genoa, Italy

A page from Il Milione, from a manuscript believed to date between 1298–1299.

Handwritten notes by Christopher Columbus on a Latin edition of Polo's book.

Samuel L. Jackson [videos]

Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and film producer. A recipient of critical acclaim and numerous accolades and awards, Jackson is the actor whose films have made the highest total gross revenue. — He came to prominence in the early 1990s with films such as Goodfellas …

Jackson in 2014

Jackson at the premiere for Cleaner in Paris, April 2008

Jackson's handprints in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.

Jackson at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival

History of Saudi Arabia [videos]

The history of Saudi Arabia in its current form as a state began with its foundation in 1744, although the human history of the region extends as far as 20,000 years ago. The region has had a global impact twice in world history: — In the 7th century it became the cradle of Islam and the capital of …

History of Saudi Arabia - Soldiers in the Arab Army during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918, carrying the Flag of the Arab Revolt and pictured in the Arabian Desert.

Soldiers in the Arab Army during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918, carrying the Flag of the Arab Revolt and pictured in the Arabian Desert.

Abdulaziz Al Saud, founder of Saudi Arabia

The surviving insurgents of the seizure of the Grand Mosque, 1979 under custody of Saudi authorities. c. 1980.

The tribes of Arabia at the time of the spread of Islam (expandable map)

Matterhorn [videos]

The Matterhorn is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy. It is a large, near-symmetrical pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the …

View on the south and east faces and the area of the Theodul Pass between Italy (left) and Switzerland (right)

Matterhorn Panorama from Gornergrat

Banner cloud formation on the Matterhorn

View from the summit towards Monte Rosa with the valleys of Mattertal (left) and Valtournenche (right)

Charlize Theron [videos]

Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and film producer. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress. — Theron came to …

Theron in March 2018

Theron at the premiere of North Country at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival

Theron at WonderCon in March 2012 promoting Prometheus

Theron at the 2013 Crystal Award Ceremony for Exploring Arts in Society

United States dollar [videos]

The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its territories per the United States Constitution since 1792. In practice, the dollar is divided into 100 smaller …

Series of 1917 $1 United States bill

Spanish silver real or peso of 1768

Continental One Third Dollar Bill (obverse)

Image: 500 USD note; series of 1934; obverse

Ferdinand Magellan [videos]

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the …

Statue in Ponte da Barca, Portugal

The Nao Victoria Replica in the Nao Victoria Museum, Punta Arenas, Chile

The Strait of Magellan cuts through the southern tip of South America connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.

Monument in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu in the Philippines.

Duesenberg [videos]

Duesenberg Motors Company was an American manufacturer of race cars and luxury automobiles. It was founded by brothers August and Frederick Duesenberg in 1913 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where they built engines and race cars. The brothers moved their operations to …

Duesenberg family with Fred and August in the middle, ca. 1886

1923 Duesenberg Model A touring car at the Louwman Museum

1930 J Walker La Grande Torpedo Phaeton

Model J engine

LaDainian Tomlinson [videos]

LaDainian Tramayne Tomlinson is a former professional American football player who was a running back in the National Football League for eleven seasons. He is widely considered one of the greatest running backs of all time. He played the majority of his career with the …

Tomlinson in 2017

Tomlinson warming up during his tenure with the Chargers.

Tomlinson against Cleveland Browns in 2006

Tomlinson warming up in 2008

Toledo, Spain [videos]

Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain; it is the capital of the province of Toledo and the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Toledo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive monumental and cultural heritage. — Toledo is …

Toledo and the Tagus River

Roman bridge Puente de Alcántara

Roman Cave of Hercules, part of the sight Subterranean Toledo

A depiction of the Visigothic Toledo compiled in the 10th century Codex Vigilanus.

Elvis Presley [videos]

Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". — Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated …

Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock

Presley's birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi

Presley in a Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954

Rodman

Athens [videos]

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence starting …

Athena, patron goddess of Athens; (Varvakeion Athena, National Archaeological Museum)

Tondo of the Aison Cup, showing the victory of Theseus over the Minotaur in the presence of Athena. Theseus was responsible, according to the myth, for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens.

The earliest coinage of Athens, circa 545-525/15 BC

The Roman Agora and the Gate of Athena in Plaka district.

Sestertius [videos]

The sestertius, or sesterce, was an ancient Roman coin. During the Roman Republic it was a small, silver coin issued only on rare occasions. During the Roman Empire it was a large brass coin. — The name sestertius means "two and one half", referring to its …

Helmed Roma head right, IIS behind

Example of a detailed portrait of Hadrian 117 to 138

Hostilian under Trajan Decius AD 250

Sestertius of Hadrian, dupondius of Antoninus Pius, and as of Marcus Aurelius

Treasury Note (1890–91) [videos]

The Treasury Note was a type of representative money issued by the United States government from 1890 until 1893 under authority of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 and $1000. It was issued in two series: an 1890 series …

Series 1890 $1,000 Treasury Note, nicknamed "The Grand Watermelon" due to the shape and color of the zeros on the reverse.

Image: US $1 TN 1890 Fr 347

Image: US $1 TN 1891 Fr 351

Image: US $2 TN 1890 Fr 353

Salzburg [videos]

Salzburg, literally "salt castle", is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Federal State of Salzburg. — Its historic centre is renowned for its baroque architecture and is one of the best-preserved city centres north of the …

View at Salzburg from Hohensalzburg Fortress

Salzburg in 1914

Young Austrians at celebrations just after the Anschluss

View from Mönchsberg

Koenigsegg Agera [videos]

The Koenigsegg Agera is a mid-engined sports car produced by Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg. It is a successor to the CCX/CCXR. The name comes from the Swedish verb'agera' which means "to act" or in imperative form " act!". — It was named Hypercar of the Year in 2010 by Top Gear magazine …

The 5.0-litre twin-turbo V8 engine

Koenigsegg Agera R Speed Racer

Koenigsegg Agera S Hundra

The Koenigsegg One:1 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

Papal tiara [videos]

The papal tiara is a crown that was worn by popes of the Catholic Church from as early as the 8th century to the mid-20th. It was last used by Pope Paul VI in 1963 and only at the beginning of his reign. — The name "tiara" refers to the entire headpiece, no matter how many crowns, circlets or diadems …

A papal tiara adorned with sapphires, rubies, emeralds and other gems. St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

Pope Innocent III (1198–1216) in early papal tiara, fresco at the cloister Sacro Speco, about 1219

Papal tiara - Solemn Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Pope John XXIII in St. Peter's Basilica in the early 1960s. Note the mitre and the papal tiaras placed on the altar.

Tiara presented to Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 by some German Catholics, but not used by him

Solemn Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Pope John XXIII in St. Peter's Basilica in the early 1960s. Note the mitre and the papal tiaras placed on the altar.

History of Poland [videos]

The history of Poland has its roots in the migrations of Slavs, who established permanent settlements in the Polish lands during the Early Middle Ages. The first ruling dynasty, the Piasts, emerged by the 10th century AD. Duke Mieszko I is considered the de facto creator of the Polish …

Reconstructed Biskupin fortified settlement of the Lusatian culture, 8th century BC

Władysław I the Elbow-high

An iconic representation of the Battle of Grunwald, a great military contest of the Late Middle Ages

The Renaissance courtyard of Wawel Castle

Nice [videos]

Nice is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département. The metropolitan area …

Port Lympia of Nice

The waterfall on the Colline du Château (Castle Hill)

The Palais de Justice

Nice seen from Spot Satellite

History of Portugal [videos]

The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The oldest human fossil is the skull discovered in the Cave of Aroeira in Almonda. Later Neanderthals roamed the northern Iberian peninsula. Homo …

Aroeira 3 skull of 400,000 year old Homo heidelbergensis. The oldest trace of human history in Portugal.

Mértola's former mosque was transformed into a church in 1238.

Monument of Pelagius at Covadonga where he won the Battle of Covadonga and initiated the Christian Reconquista of Iberia from the Islamic Moors.

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba

Tulip mania [videos]

Tulip mania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered the first recorded …

Tulip mania - A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" (viseroij), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalog Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen. Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins) depending on size (aase). A skilled craftsworker at the time earned about 300 guilders a year.

A tulip, known as "the Viceroy" (viseroij), displayed in the 1637 Dutch catalog Verzameling van een Meenigte Tulipaanen. Its bulb was offered for sale for between 3,000 and 4,200 guilders (florins) depending on size (aase). A skilled craftsworker at the time earned about 300 guilders a year.

A Satire of Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger (ca. 1640) depicts speculators as brainless monkeys in contemporary upper-class dress. In a commentary on the economic folly, one monkey urinates on the previously valuable plants, others appear in debtor's court and one is carried to the grave.

Anonymous 17th-century watercolor of the Semper Augustus, famous for being the most expensive tulip sold during the tulip mania.

Wagon of Fools by Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, 1637. Followed by Haarlem weavers who have abandoned their looms, blown by the wind and flying a flag emblazoned with tulips, Flora, goddess of flowers, her arms laden with tulips, rides to their destruction in the sea along with tipplers, money changers and the two-faced goddess Fortuna.

Louvre [videos]

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement …

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss was commissioned in 1787, donated in 1824.

The Venus de Milo was added to the Louvre's collection during the reign of Louis XVIII.

Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt seen with a plaster model of the Venus de Milo, while visiting the Louvre with the curator Alfred Merlin on 7 October 1940

The Louvre Palace and the pyramid (by night)

George VI [videos]

George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth. — Known publicly as …

Four kings: Edward VII (far right), his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V (far left), and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII (rear), and Albert, later George VI (foreground), c. 1908

The Duke and Duchess (centre, reading programmes) at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, 1927

Darlington Town Hall decorated for the coronation, 1937

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, on the USS Potomac, 9 June 1939

Granada [videos]

Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro, the Genil, the Monachil and the Beiro. It sits at an average …

Arco/Puerta de Elvira in Granada

Coat of arms of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in the Palacio de Comares room in the Alhambra.

The Capitulation of Granada by F. Padilla: Muhammad XII before Ferdinand and Isabella (circa 1882).

Albaicín

Raphael [videos]

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of …

Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father; Christ supported by two angels, c.1490

Portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino from 1482 to 1508, c.1507. (Uffizi Gallery)

Madonna of the Pinks, c. 1506–7, National Gallery, London

The Parnassus, 1511, Stanza della Segnatura

Porsche 956 [videos]

The Porsche 956 was a Group C sports-prototype racing car designed by Norbert Singer and built by Porsche in 1982 for the FIA World Sportscar Championship. It was later upgraded to the 956B in 1984. In 1983, driven by Stefan Bellof, this car established a record that would stand for 35 years …

The factory-run Rothmans-sponsored 956 of Jochen Mass and Stefan Bellof.

The Porsche 956 mounted upside down at the Porsche Museum to symbolize its legendary downforce.

Jägermeister sponsored 956 run by privateer Brun Motorsport.

Four customer Porsche 956s.

Matthew McConaughey [videos]

Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused, before going on to appear in the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, A Time to Kill …

McConaughey in 2015

McConaughey in 2008, participating in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon

McConaughey at the premiere of Dallas Buyers Club at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

McConaughey at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Kaley Cuoco [videos]

Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress and producer. After a series of supporting film and television roles in the late 1990s, she landed her breakthrough role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules, on which she starred …

Cuoco in July 2017

Cuoco at the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2009

Cuoco at PaleyFest in March 2013

Vivica A. Fox [videos]

Vivica Anjanetta Fox is an American actress, producer and television host. Fox began her career with roles on the daytime television soap operas Days of Our Lives and Generations, subsequently shifting to the prime-time slot starring opposite Patti LaBelle, in …

Fox at the New York Comic Con in October 2017

Fox in 1998

Battle of the Granicus [videos]

The Battle of the Granicus River in May 334 BC was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire. Fought in Northwestern Asia Minor, near the site of Troy, it was here that Alexander defeated the forces of the Persian satraps of Asia Minor, including a …

Alexander the Great in the battle against the Persians at the Granicus. Cornelis Troost, 1737.

The Battle of the Granicus River by Charles Le Brun

Gallic Wars [videos]

The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the …

Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, 1899, by Lionel Noel Royer

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