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In 1983 CE, an almost intact horse-powered boat or ferry was discovered in Burlington Bay. Known as the Burlington Bay Horse Ferry, it is an example of the type of vessel that was a popular form of transportation across the lake between Vermont...

Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779, which greatly increased the speed of spinning yarn for textile production. It made finer and more uniform yarn than previous machines and had many more spindles, up to 1,320. The invention...

An early 20th-century painting by Samuel Hirszenberg of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) illustrating his excomunication by the Jewish community in Amsterdam around 1656 for his radical views.

A detail of the Capture of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Cavadonga by the British ship HMS Centurion, a 1743 oil panting by Samuel Scott. (Royal Museum, Greenwich, London)

A c. 1656 portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), leader of the Parliamentarians during the English Civil Wars (1642-51) and Lord Protector after the execution of Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649). Painting by Samuel Cooper (National...

Sacagawea guides Lewis and Clark at the Three Forks of the Missouri River, 1805. Detail from a mural by Edgar Samuel Paxson, in the lobby of the Montana House of Representatives. Photograph taken at the Montana State Capitol, 2012.

Tamora, Lavinia, Demetrius, and Chiron in Act II Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, painting by Samuel Woodforde (1763-1817). Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre Collection.

The Mississippi Rifles, under Colonel Jefferson Davis, stop a Mexican charge at the Battle of Buena Vista, watercolor by Samuel Chamberlain as published in his My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue, c. 1860.

Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876, oil on canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson 1899. Whitney Gallery of Western Art.

Purchas His Pilgrimes, a compilation of contracts, letters, and records of important navigators, including Henry Hudson (c. 1570-1611), by the Reverend Samuel Purchas (c. 1577-1626), published in 1625. Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum...