spectator

1. a person who watches at a show, game, or other event

body politic

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, attorney and counseller at law, office no. 5 Masonic Temple, Cincinnati

novum opus

Historical Map of Newark New Jersey 1666-1916 Compiled for the 250th Celebration by Edward S. Rankin, C.E. August 1916 Revised, Corrected and Published for the Board of Eduction in the Public Schools January 1918

“America”

I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women.

Cosmographiae Introductio

causa sui

Mosaic of Alexander the Great from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, circa 200 BCE, National Archaeological Museum at Naples

upādhi

Black Square, 1915, oil on linen canvas, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery

ōṁ

Yashoda with the Infant Krishn, circa 1100, copper alloy. 44.5 cm x 30 cm x 27.6 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art

punctum

Point de vue du Gras (“view from the window at le gras”), circa 1827, heliograph on pewter plate, Harry Ransom Center