Burns Collection (page 6)

Basing House Besieged
BASING HOUSE, a strategically located Royalist stronghold, is attacked periodically by the Parliament army : eventually Cromwell takes it and burns it to the ground

Workmens Duel
Two American ironworkers, longtime enemies, fight with red-hot bars : their mates separate them, but not before each has received terrible burns Date: 1907

J. P. Mahaffy
JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY Irish scholar and tutor of Oscar Wilde

Granville Sharp Pattison
GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON American anatomist and surgeon, often involved in controversy; bequeathed important Robert Burns collection to Maryland U

Stripey Tam O shanter
Girl wearing a tammy ( tam o shanter - named after a poem by Robert Burns)

Burns Cottage in Ayr
The cottage of Robert Burns in Ayr, Scotland

John Burns / Downey
JOHN ELLIOT BURNS English labour leader

Burns and his Muse
A poet (Robert Burns, garlanded with a laurel wreath) is visited by his muse

Writing / Robert Burns
A poem by Robert Burns, giving a good example of his handwriting

Wwi / 1915 / Antwerp Burns
The Belgian city of Antwerp is bombarded by the Germans

De Ruiter in Medway Col
A Dutch fleet commanded by De Ruiter sails up the Thames and burns English shipping in the Medway at Rochester

De Ruiter in Medway
A Dutch fleet commanded by De Ruiter sails up the Thames and burns English shipping in the Medway at Rochester

John Burns / Pen & Pencil
JOHN ELLIOT BURNS English labour leader and book collector

JOHN BURNS, 1910
JOHN ELLIOT BURNS radical statesman

Burning Bible Translat
The church establishment burns translations of the Bible into english, which would make the scriptures accessible to all and thus diminish the power of the clergy

Burning a Book 1643
The public hangman burns The Booke of Sportes upon the Lords Day at St Pauls Cross, and this is repeated at the Royal Exchange : London is inclined to Puritanism now

Hanuman Burns Lanka
Ravana tries to punish the monkey god Hanuman (captured seeking Sita) by setting his tail alight. But Hanuman escapes & sets fire to Ravanas city, Lanka

Crystal Palace Burns
The Crystal Palace at Sydenham is destroyed by fire

Luther Burns Bull 1520
He burns the Papal bull in front of the East gate of Wittemberg

Elijah Burns a Cow
Elijah burns a cow

Jean Armour Burns
JEAN ARMOUR BURNS wife of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns, with one of her grandchildren

Customs / Scotland / Burns N
Brown entertains his friends wi a haggis by stabbing it and splattering them all as they sit around the table on Burns Night !

GENERAL SLOCUM BURNS
The American excursion paddle- steamer catches fire in New Yorks East River, and a thousand passengers - mostly women and children - burn or are drowned

MOLAY BURNS 1314 - 2
Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master, is burnt alive at Paris on the orders of Philippe IV, bringing the once proud Order to an ignominious end

French Bourgeois Family
Papa with his journal, mama with her sewing, the two older girls practising duets, the youngsters playing with the cat - while a log burns cheerfully in the hearth

Burns / Tam O shanter
TAM O SHANTER Tam O Shanter and his speedy Meg

John Frederick Daniell
JOHN FREDERICK DANIELL English chemist and physicist

Candles for Luck
Good luck will come to the one whose candles burns the longest

Buddhas Corpse Burns
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) his corpse is consumed in a mysterious manner, astonishing his mourners

Richmond Burns
Though a primary target for the Union, the Confederate capital was not taken until 1865 : fires were started not by the incoming Federals but the departing Confederates

Nap. and Mme Hatzfeld
Melted by Mme Hatzfelds prayers, Napoleon burns her husbands incriminating letter

Mob / Arson. Kent / 1830 / Fire
Mob burning hay-ricks in Kent

Robert Burns / Postcard
ROBERT BURNS Scottish national poet Portrait

Robert Burns / Skirving
ROBERT BURNS Scottish national poet Portrait

Punic War / Carthage Burns
PUNIC WARS Scipio blockades Carthage, and perfidiously obtains its surrender; the city is razed to the ground

Bannbulle at Wittenberg
Martin Luther burns the papal bull ( Bannbulle ) at Wittenberg

Luther burns the Papal Bull 1520
Martin Luther burns the Papal bull in front of the East gate of Wittenberg

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