Images

Saint Paul preaching, stained glass from St Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

Mounted Cheyenne warrior, wearing a pronghorn antelope headdress, killing a dismounted enemy. The pronghorn antelope horned headdress is a symbol of the Crazy Dog military society of the Cheyenne. Ledger drawing, by an unknown artist, 1880.

North American bison (buffalo). Photograph by Jack Dykinga and released by the Agricultural Research Service, 2011.

An engraving of the Wakefield house on Pope's Creek, Virginia, the birthplace of George Washington. Engraving by Benson J. Lossing & William Barritt, 1856, digitalized by Centpacrr, 2013.

A young George Washington in his first career as a land surveyor, c. 1750. Painting by Henry Hintermeister, January 1948.

Portrait of Lawrence Washington (1718-1752) the beloved older brother of George Washington, who named Mount Vernon after his commanding officer in the War of Jenkins' Ear. Painting possibly by Gustavus Hesselius, circa 1738 George...

Father, I cannot tell a lie: I cut the tree, showing George Washington as a young with his father Augustine 'Gus' Washington (1694-1743), a Virginian planter, engraving by John C. McRae after a painting by G.G. White, c. 1867. Library...

Sasanian copper dish from the village of Khinisly (not far from Shamakhi town). National Museum of History, Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Missouri River. Photo taken by Hans Andersen in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA in 2004 from the vantage point of the The Meriwether Restaurant looking toward the north. The photo resonates in the line from the Cheyenne legend Old Woman's...

A 1942 photograph showing British soldiers in greatcoats keeping warm in the freezing desert night in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)