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Sensory homunculusThis model shows what a mans body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its sensory perception
Skull of Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis). Krapina. Croatia. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom
Jesus as Light of WorldJesus of Nazareth, religious leader of Jewish origin who preached Christianity, depicted here as The Light of the World, knocking at the door of the human soul
Motor homunculusThis model shows what a mans body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its movement
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill V for victory salutBritish Prime Minister Winston Churchill making his V for victory salute
Diagram of the lungs and bronchial tubesA diagram of the lungs and bronchial tubes, with a section of the windpipe
Wartime poster of Churchills famous words: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few, referring to the pilots of the Royal Air Force, fighting the Battle of Britain
Homo erectus (Sangiran 17), H. sapiens (?) H. neanderthalensL to R, cast of Homo erectus, (Sangiran 17), Sangiran, Java, 700, 000 years old; cast of recent Homo sapiens skull from South East Asia; cast of Neanderthal skull from La Ferrassie, France, 50
Winged Assyrian BullWinged, human-headed bull, from the facade of the Palace of King Sargon II, Khorsabad, Late Assyrian Period, c.725 BC (gypsum)
Human body with bones and arteriesA diagram of the human body, with details of bones and arteries
Diagram of the human brain and spinal columnA diagram of the brain and spinal column, including the vertebrae
Zazel / Human CannonballZazel at the Royal Aquarium, London. " A beautiful Lady shot from a monstrous cannon." This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a human cannonball act
Satan at the SabbatSatan presides at the Sabbat, attended by demons in human or animal shapes
Alice, c. 1918, by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), Italian painter. Alice, c.1918. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark
Landscape painting by Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), with a shepherd and his sheep in the foreground, and cattle on a road in the middle ground. Date: 17th century
MolochMOLOCH the Phoenician deity to whom live children were sacrificed by fire Date: 7th century BC
Russian - Zascha The Colossal WomanZascha - The Colossal Woman from Russia Date: circa 1910s
Swan Lake ballet, Siegfried and Odette fall in loveSiegfried and Odette fall in love while the little swans dance. Because of an evil spell, they are swans by day, and only resume human shape at midnight
Oracle of Zeus, DodonaZEUS / JUPITER DODONEUS whose oracle at Dodona was the oldest in Greece : the prophecies came from the sacred oak, which is depicted here as having human form
Fat Lucy MooreLucy Moore, the American Fat Girl, weighs 292 kg (46 stone) and is still growing. Where will it end ?
WW2 poster, Per Ardua Ad Astra, Winston Churchill speechWW2 poster, Per Ardua Ad Astra. Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few. Winston Churchill speech, 20 August 1940. Date: 1940
Australopithecus and the Rhodesian ManReconstructed: Australopithecus and the Rhodesian Man
LiverScanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a section through a liver (x 7000), an organ that has over 500 functions in the human body (x 800)
Cro-magnon and Neanderthal skull comparisonSide view comparison of casts of Cro-Magnon skull from Brno, Czech Republic, Upper Palaeolithic (right), and Neanderthal skull from La Chapelle, France, Middle Palaeolithic (left)
Human cellIllustration of a highly magnified section through a human cell. Page 8 from Human Biology, 1977
Austria. Vienna. ViennaAUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna
Silhouette, Hope Springs Eternal in the Human BreastHope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast -- silhouette showing a shipwrecked man standing on a raft, waving to a ship on the horizon
French poster, The Future Lies in SocialismA French poster which declares that The Future Lies in Socialism, showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to the octopus monster of commercialism, foreign gold
Releasing carrier pigeon from tank, France, WW1A human hand releasing a carrier pigeon through the porthole of a tank, near Albert, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 9 August 1918
Hall of Man sculptures by Malvina HoffmanDouble page spread from The Illustrated London News featuring editorial and photographs relating to the range of sculptures by the American female sculptor, Malvina Hoffman
Monkey driving a toy carA rather surreal photograph of a monkey driving a model vintage car
Diagram of the heart, lungs and windpipe
Anatomy / Head / TongueMOUTH A medical diagram of the human tongue (lower and upper surfaces), with the specific zones of taste and sensation marked by their Latin names
Spontaneous CombustionSPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION The remains of Dr John Irving Bentley (age 92) almost totally burnt in his home at Coudersport, Pennsylvania
Daniel Lambert (2)DANIEL LAMBERT fat Englishman
Anatomy / Various PartsDiagrams of various organs, the skull and human body
Goddess KaliThe Goddess Kali, the malevolent aspect of Shivas wife Parvati. she wears a necklace of 50 human skulls & frequents cremation grounds
Two skeletons, human and gorillaA human skeleton compared with that of a gorilla
Diagrams of the bones of hand and armDiagrams of the bones of the left arm and hand, showing the position of the radius and ulna when the thumb is turned inwards. The shoulder blade and part of the collar bone can also be seen
Daniel Lambert (3)DANIEL LAMBERT fat Englishman
Anatomy / MusclesFirst layer of muscles in the human body (back view)
Under the Microscope / C18Animacules : microscopic creatures as seen under a microscope; the last two rows are human sperm
Patrick Cotter O brienThe celebrated Irish Giant Patrick Cotter O Brien. Aged 38 years, 8 feet 7 inches high
Paranormal / PhrenologyThe mystery of the human head
Paranormal / CombustionALARMING CASE OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION Papa - emerging from a gin palace - is spontaneously combusted, to the surprise of his wife and child
Anatomy / Heart / SiblyDiagram of a human heart
Customs / Sacrifice / HumanAZTECS OF MEXICO Priests of Tenochtitlan sacrifice victims to the god Huitzilopochtli
Diagram of the bones of the right leg and hipDiagram of the bones of the right leg, showing the joint with the pelvis at the hip
A Cannibal Feast, Charles E Gordon FrazerA Cannibal Feast on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides, by Charles E Gordon Frazer (1863-1899)
World War II Yalta, Churchill, Roosevelt, StalinVintage World War II photograph: The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named Argonaut, held February 4-11, 1945
The Pain-Proof Man & Captain Ringman Jack - Ripley sArthur Plumhoff The Human Pincushion - The Pain-Proof Man (left) and Captain Ringman Jack, who lifted weights through holes through his breasts
Fairies Steal a ChildA fairy flies off carrying a baby human on her back Date: 1908
Bone objects. Maglemosian Culture, 9500-6500 BCBone objects. C. 8700 BC. Skottemarke, Lolland. Maglemosian Culture, 9500-6500 BC. Mesolithic. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark
Mrs. Ples skullMrs. Ples. Reproduction of a skull of a Plesianthropus transvaalensis. Found at Sterkfontein. South Africa
Peking Man A new link in human evolution. Chimpanzee, Pithecanthropus, Peking Man and Piltdown Man (later shown to be a hoax). Date: 1929
Unfolding female anatomyx Date: 19th century
Skeleton of Negrillo or pigmyA skeleton of a female pygmy from the Akka Tribe, Monnattu, central Africa. Specimen presented by Dr Emin Pasha, 1887. Photograph by J Benjamin Stone in 1907
Engraving of a human skullCollected from the Admiralty Islands in the south-western Pacific, on The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) was funded by the British Government for the purpose of scientific discovery
Hominid reconstructions in chronological orderFrom left to right: Australopithecus, Early Homo erectus (Java Man), Late Homo erectus (Peking Man), Homo heidelbergensis (Rhodesian Man), Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon)
Triatoma infestans, kissing bugThis insect is a member of the Triatomine group, which are associated with the transmission of disease to humans
Fossil molar of Nebraska manDrawing of a fossil molar found in Nebraska, believed belong to early man - hesperopithecus (Ape-Man of the Western World)
Giant Machnow at Taylors Depository, Pimlico, London. Feodor Machnow, (Fyodor Makhnov) was born in 1878 at the village of Kostyuks in the Ukraine
Von Daniken CoverErich von Danikens book Chariots of the Gods in which he argues that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft which have been visiting Earth throughout human history
Water Babies / FairiesThe fairies came flying in at the window & brought her such a pretty pair of wings
Resemblance of animals and their ownersAnimals who resemble their owners - or vice versa -- a sheep and a cat
Man falling off a broken chair at a dinner party causing a servant to spill a soup tureen over him. Other guests shocked, servants amused. More Miseries
Terrible accident - Lady ablaze - Figure 1Figure 1 of 2. Terrible accident - Lady ablaze, her dress has caught fire and she is engulfed by the inferno
Are you nervous? If so, find the nerve! Photograph of Dr. Rufus Weaver showing the nervous system of a man. Date: 1906
Human vegetable figure. circa 1825
Henry Jenkins (169)HENRY JENKINS of Ellerton-upon-Swale, Yorkshire : in his last century he was a keen fisherman, and swam in the river after reaching 100. Date: 1501 - 1670
Anatomical drawing of musculature, side viewSecunda Musculorum Tabulae (Anatomical drawing of musculature, side view) Source: Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris
Advert for Universal hair extensions 1915Using human hair extensions to change your hairstyle, in a range of colours. 1915
Ripley Odditorium - New York, USA - A Shrunken Human HeadRipley Odditorium - New York, USA - An Amazonian Shrunken Human Head. According to the card caption, although many years old, the hair still grows... Date: 1939
Goddess Sekhmet, Sculpture. Medinet Habu. EgyptGoddess Sekhmet, goddess of war, represented with head of a lioness and the human body and crowned with the solar disk. Sculpture in the mortuary temple of Ramses III (1187-1156 BC). New Kingdom
Earliest man tracked by tooth, discovery in Pliocene strataThe earliest man tracked by a tooth: an astounding discovery of human remains in Pliocene strata. An artists vision of Hesperopithecus (the ape-man of the western world) and contemporary animals
Young Australopithecus africanusReconstruction drawing of the head of the young Australopithecus africanus, represented by the Taungs skull discovered in Bechuanaland. Date: 1925
Sinanthropus, perhaps the lowest man known to science: excavating Choukoutien Cave where Peking Man dwelt 100, 000 years ago, and moulding his image. Date: 1939
Piltdown Man reconstructed, 1912Piltdown Man, as imagined by Illustrated London News special artist Amedee Forestier, soon after the discovery of the bones was made public in 1912
Human red blood corpusclesScanning electron microscope (SEM) of red blood cells showing their characteristic biconcave shape which increases the surface area for diffusion
A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, curIllustration from Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the Amazons (1884)
THORs STONEThors Stone, a natural rock formation, where Vikings are reputed to have offered human sacrifices to Thor, the god of thunder; Thurstaston, Merseyside, England. Date: BC
Piltdown man reconstructedThe Piltdown man sketched by A. Forestier after Professor Keiths reconstruction, and an inset showing an alterative reconstruction after Dr. A. Smith Woodward
Village of Moveen during the 1840 sA landscape view of the village of Moveen during the forced evictions of the 1840 s
Muscles of Human BodyPhysiological diagram of the muscles, joints and animal mechanics of the human body