Learnt Collection

Witches & Familiars
Witches with their familiars, one of which has learnt to fly a broomstick on its own ! Date: circa 1600

J F Champollion
JEAN-FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION le Jeune French Egyptologist, who by studying the Rosetta stone learnt to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics

Youth Learns Fear / Grimm
A boy fearlessly encounters two giant black cats on his journey to discover the meaning of fear Date: circa 1905

YOUTH LEARNS FEAR / GRIMM
THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS - the boy meets (and beats) the fierce old man Date: circa 1905

Training with hoses
Despite their full workload new techniques of fire- fighting were being learnt on the time. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

William Morgan Murdered
William Morgan, a New York journalist, is murdered by the Freemasons for revealing what he learnt while he was himself one of them Date: 13 September 1826

Birthplace of Hervey
The birthplace of the reverend JAMES HERVEY at Hardingston(e) near Northampton, where the future churchman first learnt to muse on the wondrous works of God as expressed in Nature. Date: 1714

John Morley MP pulled out by Labby and Campbell-Bannerman
The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air (cont.). John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (18381923) - British Liberal statesman

Result of losing a game of Buttons
The Game of Buttons - a philosophical response from victor to loser. Winner (to the ruined one) - " Well, dash it all, old man

The Duke of Edinburgh opening the Seamens Orphanage in Live
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, opening the Seamens Orphanage, Liverpool in 1870. The Liverpool Seamens Orphan Institution was established in order to provide care

Cinchona - Quinine 2
Two varieties of the cinchona species (quinine) - known as Jesuits Bark because its healing properties were learnt from South American natives by Jesuit missionaries

Laurus Species
Three varieties of the laurus species (quinine) - known as Jesuits Bark because its healing properties were learnt from South American natives by Jesuit missionaries

Meyerbeer / Huguenots / Lib5
Act 4 scene 6 - the Huguenot Raoul, who has learnt the massacre plan, leaves his Catholic love Valentine to warn his fellow-protestants

Galen and Gladiators
GALEN Greek physician in Rome, founder of scientific physiology; he learnt his trade by tending gladiators in the circus at Pergamum

Mata Hari / Dagger Dance
MATA HARI (= Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) dances the sacred Brahmic Dagger Dance, claiming to have learnt it as a child from the priestesses of Java

Brit Mus Etruscan Room
They learnt Macaulays Horatius at school, so they know all about the Etruscans and can enjoy the Etruscan Room even if its mostly jars and pots

Cinchona in Peru
European travellers in Peru are taught the medicinal effects of QUININE; French missionaries had learnt this in 1630, but the curative element was not identified

Egyptian Women
Two women pay a visit to a friend : they have to raise their veils to drink, of course, but have learnt to do so without revealing more than a minimum

Raising Water Level
CHINA Wang-che-tchen, who learnt the magic secret of how to raise the water level of rivers - he is depicted raising the Yellow River (Hwang Ho)

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