Claims Collection (#3)

Talmas Audience
French actor TALMA, by sheer will-power, sees his audience divested of their clothes and transformed into skeletons, which he claims inspires his finest performances

Possession / Cadiere 1730S
At Aix-en-Provence, Catherine Cadiere claims to have been bewitched and seduced by Pere Girard, and to be possessed by devils in consequence

Kind-Hearted Butcher
I m a kind-hearted fellow, wouldn t hurt a fly!, claims a butcher who has just slit the throat of a lamb

Jehan De Varennes / Froiss
Jehan de Varennes, French nobleman and religious reformer, preaching : devout and ascetic, he claims to be the true pope, and attracts a numerous following

Bureau De Constatations
The BUREAU DE CONSTATATIONS, where claims to have been cured are evaluated by a team of doctors

Napoleon Escapes
The Narrow Escape - an apocryphal story claims that Napoleon, during his Russian campaign, escaped from some Cossacks by jumping from a window into a pigsty

Perseval Airship 1915
Parseval military airship : its inventor, Major von Parseval, claims it can be inflated/deflated more rapidly than any competing airship

Meyerbeer / Prophete / L4
Act Four Scene 4 : Jean of Leyden is about to be crowned when he is recognised by his mother, which is embarrassing since he claims to be of divine origin

Ley Line Trackway
LEY LINES : a track sighted on a notch at Llanthony, Wales, which Watkins claims is evidence of an ancient trackway combining natural and man-made features

ADERs AVION III - 2
Ader demonstrates his steam- powered Avion III (or Eole III) at Sathory, France; though he later claims a 300m flight, the truth is it fails to leave the ground

St Pancras Platforms 2
A busy moment at the Midland Railway terminus which claims to be the largest single span passenger station in the world

St Pancras Platforms
With its magnificent canopy the Midland Railway terminus claims to be the largest single span passenger station in the world

Loitering Boy / Policeman
A policeman approaches a young man in the street and asks him why he is loitering. He claims he is waiting for " the young gal wot I pays my attention to"

Marshall, Field Store
This Chicago store, with fronts on State, Washington, Randolph and Wabash streets, claims to be the largest retail mercantile store in the world

Williams Burial Forbade
William I is about to be buried at Caen, Normandie, when Ascelin Fitzarthur claims the territory : the lords make a settlement and eventually proceed with the funeral

Betty Hill Abductee
Betty Hill claims that on 19th September 1961, she and husband Barney were taken on board an alien spacecraft and subjected to a physical examination

Friedrich in Bohemia 2
Friedrich V, elector Palatine, protestant, claims Bohemia, but defeated at the battle of White Mountain he is forced into exile, earning him the title of the Winter King

Friedrich in Bohemia
Friedrich V, elector Palatine, protestant, claims Bohemia, but defeated at the battle of White Mountain he is forced into exile, earning him the title of the Winter King

Paranormal / Astrology
An astrologer holds up a celestial sphere as proof of his claims, but the monk refutes him from the Holy Book

Maps / Africa 1888
Map of Africa showing European annexations and claims Date: 1888

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