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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare (c. 1564-1616), written in 1610 or 1611, and first performed for the court of James I of England (r. 1603-1625) on 2 November 1611. Believed to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote on his own...

Ulysses on the Island of the Goddess Calypso, etching and engraving on laid paper by Willem Basse, 1634. Odysseus (Ulysses) hews timber to construct a raft on the shore of Ogygia, the island on which the nymph Calypso has kept him captive...

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...

An 1884-6 oil on canvas, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), the French pointillist painter. The Grande Jatte is a narrow island in the Seine near Paris, then a popular destination for day-trippers...

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.

Providence Colony (also known as Providence Plantation, modern-day Providence, Rhode Island, USA) was a settlement established in 1636 CE by the Puritan separatist theologian and pastor Roger Williams (l. 1603-1683 CE) after he was banished...

In Greek mythology, Calypso, whose name means "to hide" or "to conceal," is a nymph best known from Homer's (c.750 BCE) epic The Odyssey for falling in love with Odysseus and imprisoning him on her island, Ogygia, for seven years (or five...

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...

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.

The Supreme Court of Judicature on the Island of Ceylon, Colored aquatint by an unknown artist. Yale Center for British Art.