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A 1635 CE map of southern Africa by Willem Janszoon Blaeu. It shows the kingdom of Monomotapa (aka Mutapa), although it inaccurately shows the kingdom's spread over a far larger area than it actually controlled around the Zambezi...

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...

Willem Janszoon's (c. 1570-c. 1630) ship, the Duyfken, in the Gulf of Carpentaria (northern Queensland, Australia). Artist impression 19th century.

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist artist whose paintings are amongst the most popular and recognizable in history. His dramatic brushwork, exuberant palette, and mastery at capturing moments in time and...

Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a religious reformer, Puritan dissident, midwife, and alleged prophetess whose beliefs and influence brought her into conflict with the magistrates of the Massachusetts...

As the 15th century ended, Europeans were still mostly in the dark about the Eastern world. Early travelers like Marco Polo had given the West tidbits of information, but these accounts were...

The Dutch Revolt (the Eighty Years' War) was the Dutch war of independence against Spain. For 80 years the Dutch waged war against the Spanish crown. How did the Dutch...

A 1937 photograph of the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, initially called the 'Foro Mussolini' after Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy. It was designed in 1927 by architect Enrico...

A portrait of William III of England (aka William of Orange and William II of Scotland). Protestant William replaced James II of England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He ruled jointly with his wife Queen Mary II of...

A c. 1685 oil-on-canvas portrait of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714) when she was Princess of Denmark. Painting by Jan van der Vaart and Willem Wissing. The princess is here 18 years of age and...