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Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots (r. 1542-1567) and her son James I of England (r. 1603-1625). Painted in 1583. (Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland)

Statue of James I of England (r. 1603-1624), designed by John Clark, 1620. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England.

A portrait of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (center) at the Siege of Yorktown; on the right is depicted James Armistead, an enslaved African American spy who gathered intelligence on the...

A c. 1685 portrait of James II of England (r. 1685-1688) wearing his uniform as commander of the army. James reigned briefly as the king of England, Scotland, and Ireland until he was deposed by the Glorious...

James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for President of the United States, print on wove paper by Baker & Godwin, c. 1856. This campaign graphic depicts the Democratic presidential nominee James Buchanan...

Portrait of James Dewey Watson, 1969. Photographed here is American molecular biologist and co-discoverer of DNA's structure James Watson (1928-2025). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives.

Portrait of James Birdseye McPherson, photograph by Barr & Young, c. 1862. Depicted here is Major General James B. McPherson (1828-1864), a career officer in the United States Army who rose to lead the Army of the Tennessee...

The discovery of X-rays – a form of invisible radiation that can pass through objects, including human tissue – revolutionised science and medicine in the late 19th century. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), a German scientist...

An 1869 etching showing the Scottish instrument worker James Watt (1736-1819) developing a new design of steam engine in the 1760s and 1770s during the Industrial Revolution.

Watson and Crick at Banbury meeting, 1983. A photograph of the co-discoverers of DNA's structure, James Watson (1928-2025) and Francis Crick (1916-2004), posing in front of a double helix model at the Cold Spring Harbor...