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A carriage full of corpses in an open wagon of the Dachau death train. The train consisted of almost 40 wagons, and contained between 2,000 and 3,000 bodies when discovered by the U.S. military forces in the spring of 1945. Dachau was a Nazi...

Two survivors prepare and share food outside the barracks after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in May 1945 by U.S. forces. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Father Johann Maria Lenz, a surviving inmate of the Nazi-run Dachau concentration camp in Germany testifies at the trial of those individuals who operated the camp and civilians who assisted them in their purpose. The Dachau concentration...

A Second World War (1939-45) photograph of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau in Germany, taken during an American reconnaissance flight.

Seminole Woman, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1838. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Os-ce-o-lá, The Black Drink, a Warrior of Great Distinction, portrait by George Catlin, 1838. Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

British Isles in 10th century represented with the coastline at the time.

The tomb of King Aethelstan (r. 924-939) in Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, England. There is nothing in the tomb beneath the statue, the relics of the king having been lost in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.

A May 1944 photograph of women prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Poland which was set up by the SS to murder those identified as enemies of Nazi Germany, especially Jewish people.

The coyote (canis latrans), the animal on which many Native American myths are based. Photograph attributed to George Harrison of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2007.