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Emperor Jahangir Triumphing over Poverty

... that a 17th-century painting (pictured) depicts an Indian emperor shooting arrows at a personification of poverty?
... that people in the 1980s expressed interest in buying Chicago's James Charnley House only because they wanted to see the interior?
... that most sports fans are male, and class distinctions also influence which sports people follow?
... that a diamond named after Sienna Spiro sold for $3.4 million in June 2021?
... that David D. Demarest was the first professor of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary?
... that Nachi Gordon was one of the youngest agents to sign an NBA player?
... that Jim Photoglo wrote the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Fishin' in the Dark" and joined the band – almost 30 years later?
... that scholar Axinte Frunză wanted Romania to join the Central Powers in 1916, espousing "a vision that was profoundly anti-statist (with hints of anarchism), populist, and virulently anti-Russian"?
... that an effort to ban one German political party revealed that it was so heavily infiltrated that the German government partially controlled it?