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A political cartoon meant to protest the Intolerable Acts of 1774; it depicts a Mohawk woman, representing America, held down and force-fed tea by a man labeled as 'the Boston Port Act'. From Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating...

Archaeopolis is a Byzantine city-fortress in ancient Lazica (Colchis) in modern-day western Georgia commanding the junction of the River Tekhuri and a strategic route to the north. Archaeopolis played a pivotal part in the 6th-century CE...

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.