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Destruction of the schooner Gaspé in the waters of Rhode Island 1772, engraving by John McNevin, depicting the Gaspee Affair, during which the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee was burned by American colonists on 10 June 1772, printed in New...

Portrait of Joseph Wanton Sr. (1705-1780) colonial governor of Rhode Island during the American Revolution. By an unknown artist, currently in Providence Rhode Island.

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.

Modern recreations of Stone Age tools: knives, arrows, hatchets, axes, and daggers, made of deer antlers. Pile-Dwelling Museum in Unteruhldingen at Lake Constance, Germany.

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)