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Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), a prominent politician from colonial Virginia, who served as president of the First Continental Congress (1774). Although Randolph died before the American Declaration of Independence, he is sometimes counted...

Two Roman mosaic panels from the thermal baths of a luxurious Roman-style villa at the Dzalisa Archaeological Site in Georgia near Mtskheta, dated to the 3rd century CE. The upper mosaic is devoted to the cult of Dionysus, the god...

Terracotta wine jar, known as qvevri, with a capacity of approximately 100 litres (26 gal), the earliest Neolithic evidence for the beginnings of a wine culture in which wine dominated social and economic life has been found in the Republic...

Gold buckle with garnet, amber, and turquoise featuring a scene of beast fighting. This gold buckle is one of the most important pieces of the Gonio Treasure, dated to the 1st-2nd century CE. Its style approaches that of animal depictions...

The Greek philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (l. c. 610 to c. 546 BCE) is credited with having drawn the first map of the world, which was circular in form and showed the three continents of Europe, Asia and Libya (Africa) surrounded by the...

Gold diadem with temple rings featuring lions attacking a wild boar. From Vani (grave 6), an archaeological site from Colchis located in the Imereti region of Georgia. Dated to the first half of the 4th century BCE. Photo taken in...

An 1830s oil on canvas portrait by Richard Rothwell of Mary Shelley (1797-1851), author of Frankenstein. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

The title page of A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). The book, first published in 1792, called for greater educational opportunities for women and equality with men. (Library of Congress)

Jews being burnt at the stake in Augsburg, 1422, S 23 fol. 71 in the Illustrated Chronicle by Diebold Schilling of Lucerne (Luzerner Schilling), 1513. Korporation Luzern, Switzerland.

A c. 1790 oil on canvas portrait by John Opie of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), the feminist writer. (Tate Britain, London)