Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Bennett D. Hill

This contemporary drawing shows Ottoman officials rounding up male Christian children in the Balkans. The children became part of a special slave corps, which served the sultan for life as soldiers and administrators. The slave tax and the slave corps were of great importance to the Ottoman Turks in the struggle with Austria (The British Library)

The Turks dreamed of establishing a western Muslim Empire in the heart of Europe. But their army of nearly 300,000 men failed to pierce the elaborate fortifications that protected the old city walls from cannon fire and underground mines (The Mansell Collection)

Poussin: The Rape of the Sabine Women Considered the greatest French painter of the seventeenth century. Poussin in his dramatic work (ca 1636) shows his complete devotion to the ideals of classicism. the heroic figures are superb physical specimens, but hardly life-like (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1946)