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A c. 1850 painting by Ambroise Louis Garneray showing the 1800 battle between the Confiance captained by the French privateer Robert Surcouf and the Kent. (Musée d'Histoire de Saint-Malo, France)

Sistine Madonna, oil on canvas painting by Raphael, 1513-1514. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

Cover of Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell. Published by Oxford University Press.

Gordon Campbell, the author of Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth published by Oxford University Press.

This map illustrates the shifting political landscape of the Ancient Near East in the 13th century BCE, a period marked by the rise of imperial powers and the decline of older kingdoms. The expansion of the Hittite and Assyrian empires redrew...

A reverse-glass painting showing the European customs factories at Canton (modern Guangzhou, China) around 1805.

This map illustrates the geopolitical landscape of the ancient Near East following the destructive campaigns of the Old Hittite Empire (circa 1650–1500 BCE), which triggered widespread upheaval and realigned regional power structures. In...

Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), painting by Hans Asper, c. 1549. Zürich, Switzerland.

A photo of a boatwoman from Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection, London.

Takayo Fischer, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, and Ghassan Massoud in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). The character Mistress Ching is likely based on the famed pirate chief Zheng Yi Sao (d. 1844), widow of Zheng Yi. © Walt Disney Pictures...