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C17th Fire Engine / DutchAn early fire engine in use in Holland. The first flexible hose was invented by Jan van der Heijden in 1672 in the Netherlands, and a pre-cursor of this may be shown here
Cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor (Cursorius europaeus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824
Curtis British Entomology Plate 206Hymenoptera: Dryinus cursor = Anteon cursor (Irish Dryinus) [Plant: Cirsium acaule (Carduus acaulis, Dwarf Thistle)] Date: 1824-39
Red-legged seriema, Cariama cristata, and cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology
Arquebusier 17th CenturyAn Arquebusier insert the powder into his Arquebus, a portable long-barrelled pre- cursor to the musket, which had a wheel or match-lock action and a hook-shaped butt
Papirius Cursor enjoys a triumphAfter making a shameful attack on the Samnites, Lucius Papirius Cursor nevertheless enjoys a triumph usually awarded only to heroes
Papirius Cursor spares FabiusLucius Papirius Cursor, Roman general and dictator, spares Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, his magister equitum (master of the horse), with whom he had quarrelled