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The Jolly Roger, a flag used by pirates and first documented c. 1700. The term 'Jolly Roger' actually referred to any design of pirate flag using macabre imagery. These flags were designed to instill terror into victims and bring immediate...

Goddess Green Tara seated with hand in a gesture of gift-giving (Varadamudra), gilt bronze with red pigment and gemstones, Southern Tibet, 14th century. The Art of Institute Chicago.

The Buddist goddess Tara, gold and silver figure from Java, 9th century. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.

White Tara and Green Tara, distemper on cloth painting, 1450-1500, Guge, Western Tibet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Hindu-Buddhist goddess Tara, 15-16th century. Ganga State Museum, Bikaner, India.

Statue of the goddess Tara. Bihar, 10th century. Indian Museum, Calcutta

Tarapith Temple, Birbhum district, India.

Famine, the third Horseman of the Apocalypse as depicted on the Apocalypse Tapestry, commissioned by Louis I, the Duke of Anjou, and woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382. Musée de la Tapisserie, Château d'Angers, Angers

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, oil on canvas painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887. Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture, Moscow.

A detail of the Capture of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Cavadonga by the British ship HMS Centurion, a 1743 oil panting by Samuel Scott. (Royal Museum, Greenwich, London)