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Mata Hari / Spanish DanceMATA HARI (= Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) Dutch-born dancer at the Folies Bergere, Paris, where her Spanish Dance won the praise of the critic Serano
The New MarkA new Deutschmark is born - but in the meantime, how many have died of hunger ?
Joseph Joachim RaffJOSEPH JOACHIM RAFF German composer (born in Switzerland); director of the Hoch Conservatory, Frankfurt from 1877
Roses Red, Roses WhiteIn the Temple gardens, London, the duke of York picks a white rose, the duke of Lancaster prefers the red... and so a legend is born and a nasty war gets a pretty name
Gladstones BirthplaceWILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Birthplace in Rodney street, Liverpool
Virgin Mary / Birth 1CVirgin mother of Jesus; depicted in the process of being born - her birth, likewise, was a virgin birth
Gordon SelfridgeGORDON SELFRIDGE Born in Ripon, Wisconsin, USA. Organized Selfridge & Co (1908) and developed it into one of the largest department stores in Europe
Maxim Gorky And ChaliapinRussian writer Maxim Gorky, (Born Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov), photographed with Russian singer Chaliapin
Month / DecemberJe suis decembre le courtoys, car en mon temps le roy des roys fut enfente (..the most honoured month, when the king of kings was born)
Buddhist ReincarnationThe Buddhist concept of the cycle of re-birth : the soul is born again as a shellfish (3 of 4)
T. s. Eliot / Courier SatireT.S.ELIOT American-born writer
John McDouall StuartJOHN MCDOUALL Scottish born, Australian explorer
View of Ein Kerem, near JerusalemView of Ein Kerem, a village 5 km from Jerusalem. On the right the ancient ruins of the Church of the Visitation can be seen. According to tradition, it is there that John the Baptist was born
Natives of Florida sacrificing babies to their kingNatives of Florida sacrifice their first-born babies to their king, shocking a French witness
Michael ArlenMICHAEL ARLEN Writer Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, in Bulgaria, of Armenian parents. Naturalised British, 1922
