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A c. 1850 painting by Ambroise Louis Garneray showing the 1800 battle between the Confiance captained by the French privateer Robert Surcouf and the Kent. (Musée d'Histoire de Saint-Malo, France)

Sistine Madonna, oil on canvas painting by Raphael, 1513-1514. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

Cover of Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell. Published by Oxford University Press.

Gordon Campbell, the author of Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth published by Oxford University Press.

A map illustrating the changing balance of power in the Ancient Near East in the 13th century BCE resulting from the expansion of the Hittite and Assyrian empires and the collapse of the Mittani kingdom.

A reverse-glass painting showing the European customs factories at Canton (modern Guangzhou, China) around 1805.

A map illustrating the aftermath of the 15th century BCE ruinous campaigns by the Old Hittite Empire that led to the emergence of new powerful entities in the ancient Near East - the Middle Babylonian Kingdom of the Kassites, the Mitanni...

Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), painting by Hans Asper, c. 1549. Zürich, Switzerland.

A photo of a boatwoman from Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection, London.

Takayo Fischer, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, and Ghassan Massoud in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). The character Mistress Ching is likely based on the famed pirate chief Zheng Yi Sao (d. 1844), widow of Zheng Yi. © Walt Disney Pictures...