1649, Charles I—bodies temporal & eternal
Eikon Basilike –The Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings-—Frontispiece.
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1530-1584, Ivan IV (The Terrible): stills from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1944 film.
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1973, Chile: Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte
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1998, General Sani Abacha and his Family: Being blessed by late Pope John Paul II when he was in Nigeria. Kneeling before the Pope is Rakiya, General Abacha’s daughter. Looking on are the two sons–the eldest, Abdullahi ‘Moglee’ and the youngest one, Mustapha.
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Imam Khomeini : In Solitude, In Public–transfering piety
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March, 2009: General Than Shwe offers prayers during the consecration ceremony of the Uppatasanti Pagoda in Myanmar’s administrative capital of Naypyidaw.
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1984-85: General Zia-ul Haq–President after the Referendum–the clerical world meets the political.
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New Delhi, May 20, 2014
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