Hairy Gallery

Divers inside underwater house off the coast of Malta

Brian Ray, 27, and Peter Newman (in diving gear) during a coffee break inside the Underwater House, with its stool and life support box. Brian is using the telephone. The inflatable house was anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay, off the coast of Malta. It was equipped with lighting, telephone and immersion heaters with which the inhabitants could make hot drinks. It was constructed by teams of engineers and diving enthusiasts from Imperial College of Science and Technology and Enfield College of Technology. It was 9ft long and 6ft wide, constructed from rubberised material on a steel frame, and weighed around 500 lb. The team leader was David Baume who hoped it would be the first of a series of low cost underwater living spaces from which scientists could explore the seas. David and some other team members were able to spend a night 30 feet below the surface. The following day a severe storm caused the house to collapse. Date: 1969

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Wilfred I the Hairy (840-897)

Wilfred I the Hairy (840-897). Count of Urgell (870A?i?897), Cerdanya (870A?i?897), Barcelona (878A?i?897), Girona (878A?i?897), Besalu (878A?i?897), and Ausona (886A?i?897). The Counts of Barcelona vindicated, written by Prospero Bofarull (1777-1859), scholar and historian Catalan. Colored engraving

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Big hairy armadillo, Chaetophractus villosus

Big hairy armadillo, Chaetophractus villosus, and six-banded armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

© Florilegius / Mary Evans