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The fatal wounding of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) at the Battle of Zutphen (22 September 1586);oil on canvas by Benjamin West, 1806. Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.

Portrait of an Elizabethan lady, thought to be Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (1563-1607); sister to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and muse of the poet Sir Philip Sidney, who used her as inspiration for his sonnet sequence Astrophel and...

Portrait of Hubert Languet (1518-1581), French Huguenot diplomat. Print by Martin Bernigeroth, 1685-1733. The British Museum, London.

View of the town of Pictou, Nova Scotia, from the Jitney Trail. Pictou was the home of the Reverend James Drummond MacGregor (1759-1830), the first published abolitionist in the history of the region now known as Canada.

The 14th century was a time of crisis and transformation across much of the world. Plague, war, shifting power structures, and intellectual ferment reshaped societies from Asia to Africa, Europe to the Americas. Despite profound instability...

A photograph taken during the Russian Revolution of 1905 showing a train derailed by striking railway workers at Tiflis.

A 1907 oil on canvas painting by Ilya Repin (1844-1930) titled Demonstration on October 17, 1905. The work refers to the public reaction to the Russian Tsar's compromise of promised reforms, the October Manifesto, made in response to the...

Sailors of the Russian battleship Potemkin, based in Odessa, staged a mutiny in June 1905 as part of the Revolution of 1905 against Tsar Nicholas II (Reign 1894-1917)

The violin of Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) exhibited in the Paganini room at the Palazzo Doria-Tursi, Italy. Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa, Italy.

This antique map of Italy depicts the department of the Pô under the First French Empire. It was created in the early 19th century by French geographer Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire and is part of the Atlas National de France. The map illustrates...