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US Brigadier General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit and his army after a brief siege to British Major General Isaac Brock and his ally Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh, on 16 August 1812. Illustration by J. C. H. Forster, c. 20th century.

Tecumseh and General Isaac Brock at the surrender of Fort Detroit. Though their partnership is iconic in the annals of Canadian folklore, their capture of Detroit is the only instance of them working together. Illustration by A.M. Wickson...

Brig. Gen. William Hull (1753-1825), US general and governor best known for surrendering his army at the Siege of Detroit during the War of 1812. Portrait by James Sharples Sr., c. 1800. Collection of the City of Philadelphia.

The meeting of British General Isaac Brock and Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh on the eve of the Siege of Detroit (August 1812) is an iconic event in Canadian folklore. Illustration by Charles William Jefferys, first published in Tecumseh: a chronicle...

A Roman Triumph, oil on canvas by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1630. National Gallery, London.

The Liberation of Arsinoë, depicting the Ptolemaic princess Arsinoë IV (left) being rescued by Ganymedes after she was imprisoned by Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE). Oil on canvas by Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594). Staatliche...

Fragments of the Octagon, a 1st-century BCE tomb from Ephesus that may have belonged to Arsinoë IV. Ephesos Museum, Vienna.

A 1938 photograph of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), Nazi German foreign minister, who negotiated the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. (German Federal Archives)

A 1939 photograph of Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the USSR, and Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), German foreign minister, during negotiations of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

A 1945 photograph of Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the USSR and negotiator of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. (Netherlands National Archives)