• George Washington used the Cherokee campaign to warn other Native nations about the dangers of aligning with the British: “Our warriors went into their country, burnt their houses, destroyed their corn, and obliged them to sue for peace…never let the king’s wicked counselors turn your hearts against me.” (The Atlantic)

• Records of revolt, struggle, and oppression in the “perfect memory” of water. (Paris Review Daily)

• Doubting the skeptics: “The ancient skeptics take it for granted that there is something to be wrong about. But the Cartesian moment doubts exactly the existence of this something. If, for the Pyrrhonian skeptic, I can be wrong in taking the water to be cold, for the Cartesian I can even be wrong about the existence of water, let alone its coldness.” (Aeon)

• The life and times of Wu Zetian, China’s villainized empress. (BBC History Extra)

• “Gandhi’s Life in Photos, Seventy-Five Years After His Assassination.” (New York Times)

• Revisiting the work of Jean-Luc Godard: “Making a piece of fiction was a way to love the century.” (Mubi Notebook)

• Found: the 4,300-year-old remains of “a rich man,” a “keeper of secrets,” an “inspector of officials,” and a “supervisor of nobles.” (Hyperallergic)

• Lost and found: Roman swimmers’ expensive jewelry in a bathhouse drain. (The Guardian)

• Created, lost, and found: the world’s largest oil painting. (Forward)

• This week in obituaries: Tom Verlaine, Barrett Strong, Carin Goldberg, Álvaro Colom, Sylvia Syms, Linda Pastan, Gregory Allen Howard, Everett Quinton, Lisa Loring, Mira Lehr, Allan A. Ryan, Alfred Leslie, Cindy Williams, Lloyd Morrisett, Randy Gonzalez, Annie Wersching, Jerry Blavat, George Zimbel, David Durenberger, Paul A. David, Bobby Beathard, Ann McLaughlin Korologos, Bobby Hull, Bob Born, and Lance Kerwin.