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Irony - fat Londoner begs for money for his starving family
A rather fat Londoner begs for " a copper" for his " starving wife and family at ome" fom a smart gent (Phil May himself - clearly seeing the ludicrous side of the request!)

The Great Seal
Richard IIIs request for the Great Seal with postscript on treachery of Duke of Buckingham 12th October 1483 Date: 12th October 1483

The last request. Print shows a woman on her deathbed speaking to her distraught husband. Date ca. 1844

Lady in the Bath - Provocative
A rather saucy card showing a lady in the bath with the tagline: Why don t you come up an see me sometime? Date: circa 1940s

Two men on a street, one tall and slim, the other short and plump. Horace asks: Got such a thing as a spare fiver on you, old chap? The reply is unprintable. circa 1916

Bus request stop / W H Robinson
The permanent signaling umbrella fitted to bus stops, for when one finds ones self without suitable equipment for waving or when the signaling arm is heavily occupied with shopping

There was an old man with a gong
This photograph is reminiscent of the Edward Lear nonsense poem. An old man with a long beard sits inside a small hut with a gong hanging from the door

Refugee accommodation request WWII
London notice outside town hall advertising for accommodation to house Belgian refugees during World War II

The Funeral of Lord Palmerston, 1865
Engraving of the funeral of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), in the North Transept of Westminster Abbey, London, 1865

Medea Rejuvenates Aeson
Medea, at her husband Jasons request, rejuvenates his father Aeson, giving him a young mans body but permitting him to retain his memories of being old

Bishop Abdicates
Gobel, bishop of Paris, and 13 of his vicars abdicate at the request of the Commune : but this doesn t save him, he will be guillotined in April 1794

Class Distinctions / Coal
DIGNITY ATTACKED " I say Guv ner, jest guv us a lift up with these here coals" A rather ridiculously-attired posh gentleman is shocked by a coalboys impish request

Tale / the Goose Girl
The Goose Girl watches as the wind blows Conrads hat away (at her request). (Grimm)

Sophie Charlotte 1867
PRINCESS SOPHIE CHARLOTTE Photographed with her long hair combed down, in 1867 during her brief engagement to her cousin, Ludwig II of Bavaria, at his request

Froissart / Vessels / Africa
The expedition of the French and English to the coast of Africa at the request of the Genoese, whose trade had been adversely affected by piratical African corsairs

Moses and Pharaoh
He asks permission from Pharaoh to take the Hebrews into the desert to sacrifice to their God : but Pharaoh refuses the request with mockery

Russia / 862 / Rurik Arrives
The viking Rurik becomes governor of Novgorod, at the request of Slavs who are exhausted by long-running inter-tribal wars

Mozart Requiem Request
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART commissioned by the steward of Count Walsegg to write the Requiem

Propitiatory Sacrifice
God needs to be propitiated if you want him to do you a favour : so any such request is prefaced by bringing a lamb or a goat for the priests to slaughter on your behalf

Rat Retired from World
THE RAT WHO RETIRED FROM THE WORLD: A rat, tired of worldly cares, retires to live in a cheese; when fellow rats request help, he says he is unable to assist

Papirius Cursor spares Fabius
Lucius Papirius Cursor, Roman general and dictator, spares Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, his magister equitum (master of the horse), with whom he had quarrelled

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