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Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) was the twentieth Mughal Emperor of Hindustan. The Mughal Empire ended with him during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Zafar was a celebrated poet and Sufi mystic who was exiled to Rangoon by the British East India...

A female North American badger at the Oxbow Zollman Zoo in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA. Photograph by Jonathunder, 2007. Badgers often feature in Native American tales, myths, and legends such as Badger-Woman from the Arapaho.

A map tracing the journeys of Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, c. 1494 – c. 1554), a 16th-century Maghrebi diplomat, traveler, and geographer. His Description of Africa (1550) remains one of the most detailed early...

A cartoon drawn by David Low on the subject of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, a non-aggression aggreement between Adolf Hilter (1889-1945), leader of Nazi Germany, and Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), leader of the USSR. Both dictators had spent...

US Brigadier General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit and his army after a brief siege to British Major General Isaac Brock and his ally Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh, on 16 August 1812. Illustration by J. C. H. Forster, c. 20th century.

Tecumseh and General Isaac Brock at the surrender of Fort Detroit. Though their partnership is iconic in the annals of Canadian folklore, their capture of Detroit is the only instance of them working together. Illustration by A.M. Wickson...

Brig. Gen. William Hull (1753-1825), US general and governor best known for surrendering his army at the Siege of Detroit during the War of 1812. Portrait by James Sharples Sr., c. 1800. Collection of the City of Philadelphia.

The meeting of British General Isaac Brock and Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh on the eve of the Siege of Detroit (August 1812) is an iconic event in Canadian folklore. Illustration by Charles William Jefferys, first published in Tecumseh: a chronicle...

This map illustrates the state of the Macedonian Kingdom at the time of Philip II's death in 336 BCE, a powerful and unified state in northern Greece, poised to dominate the ancient world. Through military reform, strategic diplomacy, and...

A Roman Triumph, oil on canvas by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1630. National Gallery, London.