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A Japanese WWII poster depicting beheading of British Imperialism by Subhas Chandra Bose.The American flag in the form of bow-tie on the Lion's tail, which implies that the British Imperial had support from America.

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A Japanese WWII poster depicting beheading of British Imperialism by Subhas Chandra Bose.The American flag in the form of bow-tie on the Lion's tail, which implies that the British Imperial had support from America.

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A painting by the Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin , depicting a singing frog. Lacquer on paper, Yamatane Museum of Art, Japan

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A painting by the Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin , depicting a singing frog. Lacquer on paper, Yamatane Museum of Art, Japan

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This Byzantine mosaic floor, at the Church of St. Stephen, is the largest one in Jordan. It's dated to 785 CE, and has a series of panels depicting the most important cities of the region, which includes: Jerusalem, Nablus, Sebastia, Caesarea, Lydda, Bayt Jibrin, Ascalon and Gaza

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This Byzantine mosaic floor, at the Church of St. Stephen, is the largest one in Jordan. It's dated to 785 CE, and has a series of panels depicting the most important cities of the region, which includes: Jerusalem, Nablus, Sebastia, Caesarea, Lydda, Bayt Jibrin, Ascalon and Gaza

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One of the 64 panels with names on the 16 blocks that support the arch of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval, France, 1932. A WWI memorial with the names of +70,000 missing British soldiers who died in the Somme 1915 and 1918 and vanished in no man's land...

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One of the 64 panels with names on the 16 blocks that support the arch of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval, France, 1932. A WWI memorial with the names of +70,000 missing British soldiers who died in the Somme 1915 and 1918 and vanished in no man's land...

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A late 19th century CE Japanese ivory netsuke depicting the final episode of the famous Chushingura story that tells how the 47 ronin avenged their dead master. Here we see the loyal ronin storming of the house of their dead master’s enemy. Now housed at the British Museum

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A late 19th century CE Japanese ivory netsuke depicting the final episode of the famous Chushingura story that tells how the 47 ronin avenged their dead master. Here we see the loyal ronin storming of the house of their dead master’s enemy. Now housed at the British Museum

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Pompeian fresco depicting Theseus after killing the Minotaur. The fresco is not large. In the past, it was the central panel of a larger painting. It was like a painting hung in the middle of the wall and the attention of the person entering the room was supposed to focus on it.

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Pompeian fresco depicting Theseus after killing the Minotaur. The fresco is not large. In the past, it was the central panel of a larger painting. It was like a painting hung in the middle of the wall and the attention of the person entering the room was supposed to focus on it.

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This 724-year-old letter written in a form of Latin shorthand, is from the King of France to his agents at the papal court in Rome, in which he instructs them to support the Scottish knight Sir William Wallace in "those things which he has to transact". National Archives in Kew, England

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This 724-year-old letter written in a form of Latin shorthand, is from the King of France to his agents at the papal court in Rome, in which he instructs them to support the Scottish knight Sir William Wallace in "those things which he has to transact". National Archives in Kew, England

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This argillite Haida panel pipe may depict a real incident—an unfortunate sailor caught in the ship’s rigging and dragged to his death. C. 1830 CE, from British Columbia in Canada, now housed at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.

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This argillite Haida panel pipe may depict a real incident—an unfortunate sailor caught in the ship’s rigging and dragged to his death. C. 1830 CE, from British Columbia in Canada, now housed at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.

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A tattooed human skin depicting a scene from the Japanese play "Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees". This skin was removed from a man, who died around 1930, by the Japanese physician Fukushi Masaichi who was the founder of a collection of tattoos taken from the dead

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A tattooed human skin depicting a scene from the Japanese play "Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees". This skin was removed from a man, who died around 1930, by the Japanese physician Fukushi Masaichi who was the founder of a collection of tattoos taken from the dead

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Pope Formosus and Stephen VI by Jean Paul Laurens , depicting the Cadaver Synod of 897, when the corpse of Formosus was exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial in the Lateran Basilica.

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Pope Formosus and Stephen VI by Jean Paul Laurens , depicting the Cadaver Synod of 897, when the corpse of Formosus was exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial in the Lateran Basilica.

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Reliquary containing a thorn from the crown allegedly worn by Jesus at his crucifixion. This was part of the Holy Roman Emperor's Imperial Treasury by 1544. Now in the British Museum.

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Reliquary containing a thorn from the crown allegedly worn by Jesus at his crucifixion. This was part of the Holy Roman Emperor's Imperial Treasury by 1544. Now in the British Museum.

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An 1870 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens, depicting the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about 7 months, and which was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, who had Formosus' corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment in January 897 CE

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An 1870 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens, depicting the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about 7 months, and which was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, who had Formosus' corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment in January 897 CE

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A gold stater from the ancient city of Tarentum in Italy, depicting on the obverse the youthful head of Herakles wearing lion skin. 281-276 BCE

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A gold stater from the ancient city of Tarentum in Italy, depicting on the obverse the youthful head of Herakles wearing lion skin. 281-276 BCE

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Japanese lacquered armor from the collection of the Qing imperial family

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Japanese lacquered armor from the collection of the Qing imperial family

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