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Henry III of England ruled from 1216 to 1272 CE. The son of the unpopular King John of England (r. 1199-1216 CE), Henry was immediately faced with the ongoing Barons' War which had been fuelled by discontent over John's rule and his failure...

Colorized portrait of John Wilkes Booth, the 19th century American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865, photograph by J.W. Black and John G. Case.

Portrait of American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, c. 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Booth brothers, Winter Garden Theater, 25 November 1864. John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, and Junius Brutus Booth Jr. pose during a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. John Wilkes Booth (left) would assassinate US President Abraham...

The killing of Booth, the assassin: The dying murderer drawn from the barn where he had taken refuge, on Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, Va., April 26, 1865, illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1865. A depiction of the...

Portrait of American actor, and future assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth around the peak of his acting career, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks, c. 1862. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution...

Sojourner Truth (l. c. 1797-1883) was an African American abolitionist, women's suffrage advocate, and civil rights activist who famously "walked away" from slavery in 1826, sued in court for the return of her son and, between 1843 and her...

Thomas J. Jackson (1824-1863), better known as Stonewall Jackson, was one of the most famous Confederate generals of the American Civil War (1861-1865). A veteran of the Mexican-American War and a former VMI instructor, he joined the Confederate...

Patrick R. Cleburne (1828-1864) was an Irish-born Confederate general during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Having immigrated to Arkansas in 1850, Cleburne fell in love with his adopted state and volunteered to fight for the Confederate...

Zacchaeus was a tax collector in the city of Jericho during the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth (20s-30s CE). 'Zacchaeus' means "pure" or "innocent" in Greek. The story of Zacchaeus became a popular teaching lesson in early Christianity. He...