Historic Painting: "The Colossi of Memnon" by Hubert Sattler, 1846.
These statues, captured by an Austrian painter, still exist as mighty monuments to a civilization long dead.
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Solstice: The hallowed beginning of winter.
These modern people greeting the solstice are not unlike those who gathered here for the same purpose thousands of years ago.
London’s martyred terrier: the amazing story of the Brown Dog Riots.
In 1907. London medical students rioted over a statue of a dog. How did this happen, and why?
Historic Photo: Cavite on fire after Japanese air raid, December 1941.
This was just one part of the major Japanese offensive across the Pacific after Pearl Harbor.