Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)

From Wikimedia Commons. Tariq Ali at Imperial College London. Taken by Portum.

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)

The 9-11 Commission

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)

Anna Baker

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Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).

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photo by Jonathan Foust

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Photo by Charles Ellis; Dorris Alexander (Dee) Brown, from Stephens (Ouachita County), author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; circa 1978.

Robert Cowen

Gaspar Tringale

Image © ÖNB/Wien

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.

courtesy of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Columbia University (Mr. Burrows is at left)

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http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.

Marcello Montecino (1978)

Larry D. Moore

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)

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Marion S. Trikosko (1974)

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)

Matti À (Reykjavik, 2006).

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

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Barry Hyams, Library of Congress

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas

courtesy of Niall Ferguson

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) 1907 photograph

Ludwig Urning

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)

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Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.

David dos Santos

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Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)

Photo by Norman McBeath, courtesy of Faber Books

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)

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Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London

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Bust of Hoxha in a foundry in Tirana. Photo by German wikipedia user Albinfo (2006)

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Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.

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Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Manuel Komroff, 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

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Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein

Dari Michele

Copyright G.G. Bain, 1911 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-135384)

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Greg Smolonski

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)

Robert Scoble

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Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger

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Columbia University

Frederic Reglain

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/

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Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.

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Brave New Films, October 16, 2006

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Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo © ÖNB/Wien

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Justus Nussbaum

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George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump

Photo by Lilithcat

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland. Source: Own work Date: 27 March 2007 Author: Barend

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Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

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