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The Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota Sioux (Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota Oyate) are the spiritual observances of the Native American Sioux nation that maintain their relationship with the Great Mystery/Great Spirit Wakan Tanka, the creative...

Ball of the Burning Men, illumination on parchment by Phillipe de Mazerolle, included in Jean Froissart's treatise Froissart's Chronicles, Book 4, c. 1470. Depiction of the deadly Ball of the Burning Men (French: Bal des Ardents) at the...

Charles VI (lived 1368-1422) reigned as King of France from 1380 to 1422, during an important phase of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) against England. Known as the 'Mad King' due to his frequent bouts with psychosis, Charles often had...

The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857) was the infamous ruling of the United States Supreme Court that, according to the US Constitution, Black people were not and could not be considered citizens of...

Toy ball made of linen, hollow, exterior elaborated with red and green segmented decoration form by strips of reed, with circular fragments of reed at either end. From Roman Egypt. British Museum, London.

Ball-play of the Women, Prairie du Chien, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1835-1836. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

An 1875 oil on canvas painting, At the Ball, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. (Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris)

Ball Play Dance, Choctow, depicting the ceremonial Native American dance performed prior to a game of stickball, oil on canvas by American artist George Catlin, 1834. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Map depicting the Battle of Guilford Court House (15 March 1781) by Richard Harvey, 2006.

The Maya are an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador...