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In this 17th-century map, with top facing south, Atlantis is depicted as located between the Americas (right) and Africa and Europe. During the Age of Exploration, Europeans used the story of Atlantis to explain the origin of the complex Indigenous societies they encountered in the Americas and Pacific.

Richard III's death in the battle of Bosworth Field is imagined 405 years later in an illustration from 1890. Henry VII was the one to engage him in battle, and after Richard's death he seized the throne, becoming the first monarch of the house of Tudor.

After Richard III's death in 1485, historians long believed his body was thrown into a nearby river. His remains weren't seen again until 2012 when archaeologists excavated a parking lot.

Born in the west of England near Plymouth, Henry Avery (ca 1653–1696) was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the mid-1690s. Avery was best known for his seizure of the Fateh Muhammed and Ganj-i-Sawai. But this particular venture was problematic for the English and it put trade between England and India in jeopardy. To appease the Mughal emperor, the English promised to pay financial reparations and placed a £500 bounty on Avery’s head, later increasing it to £1,000. Avery ultimately escaped prosecution, but what happened to him after his pirating ventures is unknown.

"Avery Chasing the Great Mogul's Ship," colored engraving, ca. 1890.

Raphael’s High Renaissance take on the betrothal of Mary and Joseph from 1504.

Marianne Stokes’s painting at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery of an angelic-looking Madonna cradling her newborn child .

A contemporary portrait of Mary and Jesus by the Haitian-born American artist Patricia Brintle is a vibrant representation of them.

The Black Madonna at the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe

An 18th-century painting on cloth of Mary and Jesus at the Addis Ababa Museum.