Ambitious Collection

Singapore, bastion in the East, by G. H. Davis
Britains great bastion in the East: Singapore, stubborn obstacle to Japans ambitious projects in Southern Asia during the Second World War

Philippe IV Le Bel
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) king of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

Philippe IV Le Bel / Anon
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) King of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

Philippe IV Le Bel / Jones
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) King of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

The selfish and envious villain. Engraving from a miniature of Proverbes et Adages that showed the legend: Qui trop embrasse mal etreint (who embraces a lot little will squeeze)

Queen Mary surprising Courtenay and Princess Elizabeth
Queen Mary I surprising Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, and Princess Elizabeth

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind

Michael Foot and Tony Blair, British Labour politicians
Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter

WALLENSTEIN DEAD
The body of WALLENSTEIN, assassinated by agents of emperor Ferdinand II for being too ambitious, is contemplated by the astrologer Sent, who predicted some such event. Date: 1634

Cartoon, Poor Blabby has been given no office
Cartoon, Poor Blabby (Henry Labouchere, Liberal MP) has been given no office. And he wanted it badly, too! 1886

Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, The Master Builder. 1901

Miss Cotter Ludey, Managing Director of a London business
Miss Cotter-Ludey, who started life as a typist, is became managing director of a successful London business with big connections abroad

Cartoon, A Red Study (Cardinal Manning)
Cartoon, A Red Study -- HENRY EDWARD MANNING, Cardinal Manning. Date: 1875

Messerschmitt Me 264 -a cut-away view of this ambitious ocean-spanning bomber

Arado Ar 231 an ambitious attempt to provide U-Boats with a readily stowable set of far over the horizon eyes

Caproni Transaereo
The ambitious Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, optimistically depicted over Lago Maggiore, under test rises only a few metres before nose-diving into the lake, never to rise again

Philippe Iv / Boizot
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) King of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

King Edward the Martyr
EDWARD THE MARYTR King of England (reigned 975-978), assassinated, possibly on the command of his stepmother, Aelfthryth, ambitious for her son Aethelred II

Cartoon, Randolph Churchill, British politician
Cartoon, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1849-1895), British politician - Little Randolph and the greasy pole of politics

Jules F Dupuis-Delcourt
JULES FRANCOIS DUPUIS-DELCOURT French balloon pioneer, with many ambitious projects which only occasionally bore fruit. Date: ACTIVE 1820S-1850S

Charvins Aeroscaphe
Charvins ambitious design for the Societe Francaises des Aeroscaphes has propellors at each end as well as rotors on the side for steering. Date: 1864

Thomas Baring
THOMAS BARING (1799 - 1873) Financier and statesman, member of the banking family; Had he been ambitious, he might have played a more important part in history Date: circa 1860

Ambitious Women
Some want to catch a coronet, others a millionaire, a few sail with Lady Fawcett seeking emancipation : but chorus girls or aristocrats, all are shamelessly after SOMETHING... Date: 25 December 1908

Seti I, Pharaoh
SETI I also known as Meryenptah or Menmaatre or Sethos (19th dynasty) renowned for his ambitious building projects

Trial of a Channel Ferry Model on the Serpentine, February 1
Engraving of a trial of a Steam Channel Ferry design on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, from The Graphic, 26th February 1876

Girl and Coronet
CONTEMPLATIONS UPON A CORONET - an actress at her dressing-table aspires to better her condition by marrying a peer. (Many did.)

Princesse De Polignac
YOLANDE MARTINE GABRIELLE DE POLASTRON, duchesse de POLIGNAC - ambitious and scheming aristocrat, friend of Marie Antoinette and fellow victim of the guillotine

Philippe IV
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) King of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

Mussorgsky / Boris / Liebig3
Act One scene 2 : : Grigori the false Dmitri, with Marina, an ambitious schemer who plans to use him so as to become Tsarina

Mlle De Montpensier
Anne Marie Louise d Orleans, MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER La Grande Mademoiselle, daughter of Gaston d Orleans, ambitious intrigeur always implicated in politics. Date: 1627 - 1693

London to Cape Ride
Mr. C.F. Williams and Captain Hay, shown setting off on their ambitious motorcycle trip from London to Capetown, South Africa

Thos Howard Suffolk
THOMAS HOWARD, earl of SUFFOLK statesman who suffered from an extravagant and ambitious wife, for which he was fined. His seat was Audley End. - with his autograph

Caesar Assassinated
Julius Caesar is assassinated on the Ides of March, for being too ambitious, by a group including Brutus and Cassius

Elizabeth Pope - 2
ELIZABETH POPE (when miss Younge ) actress as Artemisa in Nicholas Rowes The ambitious stepmother

Marcellus Sent to Pompey
The Senate sends consul Marcellus to invite Pompeius to defend the Roman Republic from the ambitious Caesar, though Pompeius too has ambitions

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