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USS Constitution engages the French frigate La Vengeance in February 1800 during the Quasi-War. Image by Benson Lossing, from Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History, 1912.

Signing of the Treaties of Alliance between the US and France in 1778, which led to France's entry into the American Revolutionary War. Reproduction of an oil on canvas painting by Charles Elliott Mills, c. 1900-1920. The original is in the...

The vision of a new Jerusalem as described in the book of Revelation, folio 55 recto, MS A. II. 42, Bamberger Apokalypse, c. 1000. Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg.

Scenes from the book of Revelation (Apocalypse of John), stained glass window of the Auxerre Cathedral, c. 1240.

Book of Revelation, folio 6v and 7r of illuminated manuscript Fr 403 by Maître de Sarum and Hennequin de Bruges, 1240-1250. National Library of France, Paris.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, painted in Paris, c. 1785. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Deborah Read Franklin (1708-1714), wife of Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas portrait attributed to Benjamin Wilson, c. 1758. American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

"Join or Die", a political cartoon attributed to Benjamin Franklin or James Turner, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1754. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published during the French and Indian War, the cartoon was...

Poor Richard, 1739. An Almanack for the Year of Christ 1739, written by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, 1739. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas by David Martin, c. 1767. Green Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. This portrait of Benjamin Franklin, painted by David Martin c. 1767, depicts him as a scholarly figure of...