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Map of Shark Bay Area Showing Dirk Hartog Island and Cape Inscription
Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog (1580-1621), sailed into Shark Bay on Australia’s west coast, 850 kilometres (528 miles) north of Perth on his ship, the Eendracht on 25 October 1616. Hartog made landfall at the northern tip of an island in Shark...
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Governor Joseph Wanton of Rhode Island Colony
Portrait of Joseph Wanton Sr. (1705-1780) colonial governor of Rhode Island during the American Revolution. By an unknown artist, currently in Providence Rhode Island.
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Arrival of the Roanoke Island Colonists
A 1590 CE engraving by John White showing the arrival of English colonists in Virginia, the first English colony in North America (modern-day North Carolina). Around 100 settlers created a settlement on Roanoke Island in 1585 CE.
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Traditional Pacific Island Tattoo Tools
Instruments for traditional Pacific Island tattoos: hāhau (tapping stick) made of ulei wood, moli (tattoo tool) made of wood and bone, and apu paʻu (ink bowl), made of jade. Date unknown.
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War Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne at the Battle of Beecher Island
The defiance of Roman Nose, photographic reproduction of an illustration by R. F. Zagbaum from Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 91, #541 June, 1895, p. 53., depicting the Northern Cheyenne warrior/war chief Roman Nose taunting US army forces...
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La Amistad off Long Island, New York, 1839
The sailing vessel La Amistad off Culloden Point, Long Island, New York, on 26 August 1839; on the left is the brig Washington of the US Navy - the ship that towed La Amistad to Connecticut. Watercolor by an unknown artist, 1840. New Haven...
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St. Cuthbert's Island
St. Cuthbert's Island, near Lindisfarne, where Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) retired to live in solitude before he was offered the bishopric of Lindisfarne.
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Alfred Dreyfus on Devil's Island
Alfred Dreyfus on Devil's Island in 1898, stereoscopy by F. Hamel, Altona-Hamburg.
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Location of the Island of Flores, Indonesia
Location of the island of Flores, Indonesia (highlighted in red).
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The Seashore, Martinique Island by Gauguin
An 1887 oil on canvas, The Seashore, Martinique Island, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. A work that shows the artist's shift towards a bold and vivd palette of pure colours, seen here in the cobalt sea and...
