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A 16th century CE portrait of Edward Seymour (c. 1500-1552 CE) who served as Lord Protector or regent for his nephew Edward VI of England (r. 1547-1553 CE). (Collection of Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Wiltshire)

Five of Lord Rockingham's hounds in a landscape, oil on canvas painting by George Stubbs, 1762. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.

A young George Washington surveys the property of Lord Thomas Fairfax in the Shenandoah Valley in 1748. Illustration from The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 by Charles Moore, 1900.

Lord Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724-1816), oil on canvas portrait by James Northcote, 1784. National Maritime Museum, London.

British General Charles O'Hara (Cornwallis' second-in-command) surrenders to General Benjamin Lincoln after the Siege of Yorktown (28 September to 19 October 1781); George Washington is depicted beneath the American flag. Oil on canvas painting...

Four Armed Vishnu statue, 8-9th Century

Ganesha is the best-known and most widely worship God in the Hingu religion. With the head of an elephant and a pot-bellied body of a human being the depiction of Ganesha is known worldwide. Known to bring success, knowledge, wisdom and wealth...

The Death of Gilgamesh is a Sumerian poem relating the death and afterlife of the famous hero-king of Uruk, who had become a legendary figure. The piece is dated to before the Ur III Period (2047-1750 BCE), and although its theme informs...

According to biblical tradition (and some say myth), David (c. 1035-970 BCE) was the second king in the ancient United Kingdom of Israel who helped establish the eternal throne of God. A former shepherd, David was renowned for his passion...

Medieval European Manorialism (Manorial System) was the system where rural society was arranged around a manor house or castle on an estate. The smallest units of these estates were called manors. Free and unfree labourers here worked the...