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Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgements of God upon Eli's House, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1780. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.

A late-19th century cigarette card showing the British pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy (d. 1717). Bellamy died when his ship the Whydah was wrecked in a storm off Cape Cod. Produced by Allen & Ginter. Lithographer: George S. Harris & Sons...

A gouache on paper painting titled Samuel Morse, the Telegraph, 1837 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. On May 24, 1844 Morse sent the first official long-distance telegraph from...

Hannah Giving Her Son Samuel to the Priest, oil on canvas by Jan Victors, 1645. Berlin State Museums.

Moses, Gideon, Elijah, and Samuel by il Baciccio. Pendentive of the dome of the Gesù, Rome.

Portrait of Samuel Adams as he looked in 1795, as governor of Massachusetts, mezzotint by an artist with the surname Graham in 1797, based on a lost portrait by Major John Johnson.

Samuel anointing David, Byzantine silver plate, made in Constantinople, 629-630. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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

Watch a short biography of French explorer Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635 CE) who established the city of Quebec in the northern colony of New France.

The Salem Witch Trials were a series of legal proceedings in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692-1693 resulting in the deaths of 20 innocent people accused of witchcraft and the vilification of over 200 others based, initially, on the reports of...