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Captain William J. Fetterman (l. c. 1833-1866), best known for the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands/The Fetterman Massacre in which he and 80 soldiers under his command were killed by the Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance on 21 December 1866...

A 1950 photograph of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Photograph taken by Roger Rössing and Renate Rössing. (Deutsche Fotothek‎)

A 1968 photograph of the conductor/cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), the composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), and the pianist Svyatoslav Richter (1915-1997).

The grave of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow.

A photograph of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Taken in the 1930s.

A photograph of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Taken in 1925.

A princess reclining on a terrace with attendants, gum tempera and gold on paper, Mughal Empire, India, c. 1730-1740. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest...

A 19th-century portrait by Eliseo Sala of the Italian philosopher and legal reformer Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794). (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan)

A c. 1624 oil-on-canvas painting by Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656) titled The Merry Violinist. (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)

Portrait of George Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Oil on canvas by Rembrandt Peale, c. 1850. De Young Museum, San Francisco.