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A group of four blue bulls feed in scrubland near a pond, while four imperial huntsmen are hiding behind camouflage screens. In the distance there is a hunting party with elephants, horses, and flags. The other side of this page of the album...

Chief Black Coal (Wo’óoseinee’, l. c. 1840-1893) of the Northern Arapaho. Black Coal was among the 'peace chiefs' of the Arapaho who, along with others such as Chief Little Raven (l. c. 1810-1889) of the Southern Arapaho, tried to maintain...

A painting of Aurangzeb (1618-1707), sixth Mughal emperor. Here he is accompanied by a royal hunting party. The preparations for the hunt include several hunters in the foreground, camouflage screens, and a deer being led as a bait. The...

Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) was the twentieth Mughal Emperor of Hindustan. The Mughal Empire ended with him during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Zafar was a celebrated poet and Sufi mystic who was exiled to Rangoon by the British East India...

A female North American badger at the Oxbow Zollman Zoo in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA. Photograph by Jonathunder, 2007. Badgers often feature in Native American tales, myths, and legends such as Badger-Woman from the Arapaho.

This map illustrates North and Sub-Saharan Africa during the 16th century, as described by Johannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, c. 1494–c. 1554) in his 1526 book Cosmographia et Geographia de Africa. This...

A cartoon drawn by David Low on the subject of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, a non-aggression aggreement between Adolf Hilter (1889-1945), leader of Nazi Germany, and Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), leader of the USSR. Both dictators had spent...

US Brigadier General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit and his army after a brief siege to British Major General Isaac Brock and his ally Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh, on 16 August 1812. Illustration by J. C. H. Forster, c. 20th century.

Tecumseh and General Isaac Brock at the surrender of Fort Detroit. Though their partnership is iconic in the annals of Canadian folklore, their capture of Detroit is the only instance of them working together. Illustration by A.M. Wickson...

Brig. Gen. William Hull (1753-1825), US general and governor best known for surrendering his army at the Siege of Detroit during the War of 1812. Portrait by James Sharples Sr., c. 1800. Collection of the City of Philadelphia.