Et sustulit illum et ostendit illi omnia regna orbis terrae in momento temporis ....
- Luke 4:5

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them.

- J. R. R. Tolkien, the Jesuit Catholic author of The Lord of the Rings


Continue to 'European Treaties' having a bearing on the history of the United States and its Dependencies, ( but important also for the larger global role of the major European colonial world empires from c. 1500's to the 20th C. onward )