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Idealized depiction of Frederick the Great of Prussia, painting by Wilhelm Camphausen, Germany, 1870. This painting is a dramatized version of Frederick the Great painted almost a century after his death. The idealized form of the portrait...

Flag of the World Health Organization, a specialized branch of the United Nations.

A c. 1910 painting by Ernest Board showing the English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823), the vaccine pioneer, administering a vaccination against cowpox to James Phipps in 1796, which subsequently protected him from contracting smallpox...

Maria Theresa of Austria and her family, oil on canvas by Martin van Meytens, c. 1754. Those depicted include Maria Theresa (right, seated) her husband Francis I (left, seated), a young Joseph II (center, standing next to his mother), and...

An illustration by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. showing an attack by the Ndebele of Matabeleland on Europeans invading the kingdom during the First Matabele War (1893-4).

An 1892 cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch magazine showing the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) astride Africa in illustration of his dream of connecting British controlled Cairo to Cape Town.

An 1836 painting by William Cornwallis Harris showing a kraal (village and cattle enclosure) of the Ndebele people who founded Matabeleland in Southern Africa (1838-97).

A photograph dating to the late-19th or early-20th century showing Ndebele women and children and traditional huts at Bulawayo, once the capital of Matabeleland. Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.

An illustrated portrait of Chief Lobengula, king of the Ndebele state, Matabeleland, from 1868 until his death in c. 1894. By Ralph Peacock, based on a sketch by E. A. Maund. Published by Rhodesian National Archives.

The Bosporan Kingdom (c. 480 BCE–341 CE) emerged around the Cimmerian Bosporus (modern Kerch Strait) as a hybrid Greco-local state founded by Greek colonists from cities such as Miletus. Rather than a single unified polity in the modern sense...