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North West Australia DesignAn attractive design from a dancing board in north west Australia. Suitable for for a continual border decoration for curtains or mats. Date: circa 1925
Interior of Court of Exchequer Chamber, showing the ancient ceremony of chopping sticks and counting horse-shoes and hob-nails, this tradition was abolition in 1882. Date: 1844
Christian DamascusThe ruins of the Maronite Christian quarter of Damascus, consequent upon continual attacks and massacres by the Druses and the indifference of the Turkish government Date: February 1861
Cockney Comment on the purchase of a parrotTwo Pals outside a pub looking at a third bargaining for a parrot with a sailor outside a pub. " Why, es Missus jaws enough. Wot ds e want with a bloomin parrot." !! Date: 1895
Events / Syria / MassacreContinual harassment of Christian Maronites by Druses leads to their taking refuge in the French Consulate at Damascus, but the Druses break in and massacre them Date: summer 1860
In a London GasworksWorkers in a London gasworks stoking the furnaces : a continual supply of fuel must be fed into them by hand - a laborious business. Date: 1907
Night Watchman crying FireA Night Watchman cries " Fire!". There were continual fires in Constantinople - only the very rich merchants and Pashas could afford stone houses
Carl V AbdicatesThe emperor Carl V abdicates, leaving the Netherlands to his son Felipe II : the region will henceforth be a Spanish possession and the scene of continual resistance
Drake Book CoverW Raymond Drakes book Gods and Spacemen throughout history in which he argues that we have been visited on a continual basis by peoples of other worlds
Egyptian SakiyehThe sakiyeh is used to irrigate fields and gardens, by raising water in a series of bowls on a wheel which is kept in continual motion by cattle