Since before the dawn of the written word, mankind has always cherished leaving behind memorials, inscriptions, trophies, monuments, and other kinds of symbolic instillations...
This manuscript illustration from the National Library of the Netherlands was created by an unknown 14th-century artist. Although the artwork visually depicts late medieval...
This painting, by the French artist Pierre Paul Léon Glaize (1842 - 1932), was created for the Église Saint-Louis d'Antin (Church of Saint-Louis d'Antin)....
Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"Once the process of heresy-hunting pervades an army, true comradeship dies. Officers are promoted not for professional knowledge but for being...
This scene of Norse mythology was sculpted by Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhard (1813–1902) and photographed by Ernst Alpers (c. 1828 - 1900). Standing in the...
Duke Gisulf (or Gisulfo) was a Lombard duke of Benevento who operated with substantial autonomy during the tumultuous reigns of the Lombard kings Cunincpert...
Tertullian (2nd-3rd century Roman theologian)
"You ought to choose things that are good for you rather than things which are merely not bad for you."
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