Images

HMS Gaspee, a Royal Navy schooner that was seized and burned by American colonists on 10 June 1772, in the leadup to the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), a 19th-century sketch by S. G. Studley, 1892.

The Church of Kish, also known as the Church of Saint Elishe in Kiş, Shaki, Azerbaijan.

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering, political cartoon attributed to Philip Dawe, depicting several Bostonian Sons of Liberty forcing tea down the throat of a British tax collector, who has already been tarred...

Echinacea Flower of the type used by Native Americans in medicinal remedies.

North American white-tailed deer. Photo by Scott Bauer, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

North American Black Bear. Calcite Springs Overlook, Yellowstone National Park, 2011.

Photo showing a collection of Stone Age tools that were made using deer antlers. These tools include knives, arrows, hatchets, axes and daggers. The items pictured are modern recreations by the Pile-Dwelling Museum in Unteruhldingen at Lake...

A 1791 oil-on-canvas portrait by Thomas Hardy of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), the Austrian composer of classical music. (Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments, London)

A portrait by Christian Ludwig Seehas of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), the Austrian composer of classical music. (Ludwigslust Palace, Germany)

An aerial view of Eszterháza Palace, Hungary, first built in the 1760s by Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy ‘the Magnificent’ (l. 1714-1790). (Daniel Somogyi-Tóth, www.legifotok.hu)