Search Results: Proportional representation

Representation of the Germanic god Ullr (Ull), a figure in Norse mythology, with a bow and skis. From an 18th Century Icelandic manuscript. Collection of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

A life-size model of what Noah's Ark may have looked like. From the Ark Encounter theme park in Williamstown, Kentucky, USA.

An illustration representing the port of the Sumerian city of Eridu, founded c. 5000 BCE in modern-day Iraq.

Still from the TV series Farouk Omar.

An adapted version of the calligraphic pane of Husayn ibn Ali in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.

An artist's depiction of a Roman wedding during the late Empire. From the game Old World.

Permanently exhibited at the Benaki Museum as a Mycenaean vase of the Late Helladic II-IIIAI period (15th-early 14th century BCE). Its authenticity is still a matter of discussion among scholars. The decoration of this object of prestige...

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English mathematician and physicist widely regarded as the single most important figure in the Scientific Revolution for his three laws of motion and universal law of gravity. Newton's laws became a fundamental...

The Allied strategic bombing of Germany during World War II (1939-45) involved British and U.S. bomber planes attacking industrial cities, factories, railways, airfields, and dams. Over 600,000 civilians died as a consequence. The campaign...

The astronomers of the Scientific Revolution rejected long-held theories of ancient thinkers like Claudius Ptolemy and Aristotle and instead set out to systematically observe the heavens in order to create a model of the universe that fit...