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A 19th century CE painting depicting Judas Iscariot by James Tissot. (Brooklyn Museum, New York)

Sir James Douglas, aka 'Black Douglas' (c. 1286-1330 CE), a Scottish knight who fought for his country's independence from England. He is here shown with fellow fighters Robert Bruce and William Wallace. (Entrance hall frieze by William Hole...

James Warren, a Massachusetts politician during the American Revolution. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1763. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

A photograph of the Scottish engineer James Nasmyth (1808-1890) who invented the steam hammer in 1839 during the Industrial Revolution. (The Science Museum, London)

James W. Fannin, painting by unknown artist, included in Exploring the Alamo Legends by Wallace O. Chariton, p. 134, c. 1820s. A planter and American military officer during the Texas Revolution, Fannin served with the Texian army, fought...

US Brigadier General James Winchester, defeated at the Battle of the River Raisin (January 1813), portrait by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1817. Tennessee Portrait Project.

James Wilkinson as US envoy to Mexico, c. 1820-1825, portrait by John Wesley Jarvis.

James McLaughlin (l. 1842-1923), US Indian Inspector of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, best known for ordering the arrest of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull in December 1890 and requesting the troops that participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre...

Representative James Tallmadge, Jr. (1778-1853) of New York, whose 'Tallmadge Amendment' sparked the controversy that led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. By Jeremiah Nims, 1825. New York Public Library.

James Wilkinson, oil on canvas portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1797. Independence National Historical Park Collection, Philadelphia.