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Mary Evans

The second encounter between Dante and Beatrice is depicted by Pre-Raphaelite artist Henry Holiday in 1883.

Ernest of Bavaria, the archbishop of Cologne, is shown in an engraving published in 1584.

In October 1928 the Simplon Orient Express collided with a passenger train at Recea Station. According to news reports, 34 people died and 50 were injured. One man was rescued after being trapped for six hours beneath the rubble.

In January 1929 snow trapped the Orient Express near Constantinople (Istanbul) for days. The passengers, close to dying of hunger and cold, escaped the train by digging a tunnel through the snow. The event inspired Agatha Christie’s 1934 mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express.

On September 13 serial train-bomber Szilveszter Matuska of Hungary blew up a viaduct as the Arlberg Orient Express was passing through Biatorbágy, near Budapest. The locomotive and nine carriages fell into a 100-foot-deep ravine. Twenty-two people died, and 120 were injured.

Vlad III dines amid impaled victims following his assault on Brasov (then known as Kronstadt). Printed in Nuremberg in 1499, this engraving, and others like it, helped spread Vlad III’s gruesome reputation across Europe.

Vlad III’s archenemy Sultan Mehmed II had this portrait painted in 1480 by Gentile Bellini, an Italian painter of the Venetian school. It's now at the National Gallery in London.

Located near Leper in Belgium, Tyne Cot Cemetery holds nearly 12,000 graves of World War I soldiers who fought for Great Britain.

In order to stop the British advance, the Germans built this network of trenches in Bayernwald, near the Belgian city of Ypres. Most of the Great War was fought in trenches like these.