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A statue in Langres, France of the author and philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784).

A forensic facial reconstruction of Sophia Palaiologina (Palaeologus) by Sergey Nikitin, 1994.

Portrait of Ivan IV, oil on canvas by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Young Tsar Alexis (Alexei) Praying Before the Relics of Metropolitan Philip in the Presence of Patriarch Nikon, oil on canvas by Alexander Litovchenko, 1886. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

The ivory throne of Tsar Ivan IV The Terrible of Russia (r. 1547-1584). Kremlin Museums, Moscow.

A 1767 oil on canvas portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo of the French author and philosopher Diderot (1713-1784). (Louvre Museum, Paris)

The frontispiece of the Encyclopedia, a massive multi-volume work first published in 1751 and chiefly edited by Diderot (1713-1784). The figure in the centre is Truth whose light radiates forth and disperses the clouds of ignorance. Engraved...

Mow-way (c. 1825-1886), the principal leader and war chief of the Kotsoteka band of the Comanche during the 1860s and 1870s, photograph by William Stinson Soule, 1869-1874. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Portrait of Tecumtha (c. 1808), platinum print after a watercolor portrait of Tecumseh (1778-1813), a Shawnee chief and leader, by Benson John Lossing, 1915. Toronto Public Library, Canada.

Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee political and religious leader (c. 1775-1837), oil on canvas by Henry Inman after Charles Bird King, c. 1830-33. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.