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Lieutenant-general Otto Ohlendorf during the Nuremberg trials. Ohlendorf was a German SS commander of Einsatzgruppen D operating on the Eastern Front. He was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1951. (United States Holocaust memorial...

US General Winfield Scott leads his brigade into action at the Battle of Chippawa (5 July 1814) during the War of 1812. By H. Charles McBarron, Jr., c. 20th century. US Army Center of Military History.

Cathlapotle Plankhouse, a full-scale replica of a Chinook-style cedar plankhouse erected in 2005 at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, which was once inhabited by more than 1200 Chinook people. Photograph by Walter Siegmund, 2006.

Interior of a Chinookan plankhouse, illustration sketched by A. T. Agate, engraved by R. W. Dodson, published in Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 by Charles Wilkes, Philadelphia...

Lower Chinook Chief from Warm Spring Reservation (1886), illustration published in Deutscher Kinderfreund. Nr. 7, Hamburg April 1886, edited by C. Ninck.

Bronze seal mentioning the name, in Latin and in Greek letters, of Coelia Mascellina, daughter of Cnaeus, a female importer of oil and wine from Spain, 2nd CE. Museo Nazionale Romano, Roma, Italy.

Seated female with child, from the Necropolis de La Albuferata (Alicante), 4th BCE. Museo Arqueologico Provincial de Alicante, Spain.

Niccolò Paganini, depicted in his most romantic guise, with tousled hair and gaunt cheeks, the product of his reliance on mercury and opium. Lithograph by Nicolas Eustache and Antoine Maurin, based on a painting by Pingret in Baden in 1831...

A drawing of 12 kinds of kappa, a water sprite in Japanese mythology, drawn in the mid-1800s and written in Japanese as 水虎十二品之図.

A drawing of a kappa, a Japanese mythological water sprite, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) as part of his wider work, the Hokusai Manga, which he began publishing in 1812.