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This infographic illustrates five notable ships from the Age of Exploration, a period during the 15th and 16th centuries when European powers sought new trade routes, territories, and knowledge of the world. Several notable ships played key...

The corpse of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) who was found guitly of war crimes and hanged 16 October 1946 after the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46).

A 1945 photograph of the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg, location of the post–WWII Nuremberg Trials (1945-6).

A photograph of Alois Hoellriegl giving evidence of Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). Hoellriegl was a guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of the Czech surgeon Dr Franz Blaha (far left) giving evidence of Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). Blaha was a noted surgeon and inmate at the Dachau concentration camp. (Imperial War Museums)

Kiowa Beaded Moccasins from Oklahoma, c. 1920. Oklahoma History Center.

Joseph Wanton Morrison, famous for commanding the British and Canadian forces at the Battle of Crysler's Farm (11 November 1813) during the War of 1812. Oil on canvas by an unknown artist, c. 1821. McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal.

James Wilkinson as US envoy to Mexico, c. 1820-1825, portrait by John Wesley Jarvis.

Battle of Chateauguay (26 October 1813) between Canadian and US forces during the War of 1812. Illustration by Henri Julien, published in Le Journal de Dimanche in June 1884.

This map traces the expansion of Buddhism from its origins in the Ganges Plain of Magadha (modern Bihar, India) during the 5th–4th century BCE when Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) attained enlightenment. From this heartland, Buddhism spread...