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Gabriel's Rebellion (30 August 1800) was a carefully planned slave revolt in Virginia orchestrated by the literate slave blacksmith Gabriel (l. c. 1776-1800), property of one Thomas Prosser, and so referred to as Gabriel Prosser. The plans...

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (l. 1749-1791) was a French orator and nobleman who rose to prominence as a leader during the early stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). From the disgraced and scandalized son of a distinguished...

- Prosser planned an insurrection to capture Richmond and massacre whites - He was a educated slave, and worked as a blacksmith - He intended to make himself king of a new black nation

There were 250-311 slave revolts in Colonial America and the United States between c. 1663 and c. 1860 as defined by scholar Herbert Aptheker (l. 1915-2003), but, almost certainly, many more that were not reported, as news of an uprising...

Martin Luther's 95 Theses, credited with sparking the Protestant Reformation in Europe, have become a cultural touchstone since he posted them 31 October 1517, but the little-known 97 Theses, posted only a month earlier, are equally significant...

Portrait depicting Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), French orator, politician and French Revolutionary leader. Pastel on paper by Joseph Boze, 1789. Palace of Versailles.

Roman Widow, oil on canvas by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc

This painting comes from Ubisi, Imereti (West Georgia) and depicts Archangel Gabriel. It dates from the 14th century CE, and it is made of wood and tempera. One can clearly see the strong Byzantine artistic influence exerted in this painting...

Elves and dwarves represent minor divine figures in Norse mythology. Elves (álfar) and dwarves (dvergar) have in common their talent for creating precious objects, skill, agility, and moral ambiguity. Dwarves appear in several important stories...

Sir Martin Frobisher (c. 1535-1594 CE) was an Elizabethan adventurer and explorer who embarked on three expeditions in the 1570s CE to chart the waters of the North American Arctic and find the Northwest Passage to Asia. Unsuccessful in these...