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Turin Shroud Face 1934
Part of the first photograph of the Shroud, showing the face : the image is revealed more strongly in the negative

Turin Shroud 1934
The first photograph of the Shroud : the image is revealed more strongly in the negative. Water stains and fold marks also appear

Territorial Army Poster
A recruiting poster for the Territorial Army, highlighting that sporting pursuits need not be sacrificed to join - in fact they are actually strongly encouraged!

Fable / Wind and Sun
THE WIND AND THE SUN Both disputed over who could cause the traveller to shed his cloak; the wind blew strongly, but in the suns gentle heat the man derobed

British Soldiers resting near Monte Camino; Second World War
Photograph showing a group of British infantry taking a break, near Monte Camino, Italy, 1943. This unit had just been involved in six days of continuous fighting

Sunny Waters
This oil painting shows some rippling waters, reflected strongly by the bright sun, with a pair of swans with their cygnets floating by. Date: circa 1918

MARGERY AND BIRD
Margery's dead brother Walter mischievously pulls down a strongly-secured cabinet on Malcolm Bird, the intrepid investigator of Scientific American Date: 1924

The second engagement of the Mexican War requires the Americans to charge the strongly-held Mexican position. The dragoons, led by Captain May, do the job. Date: 9 May 1846

CHATEAU DE CLISSON
The massive Chateau de Clisson, in Loire Inferieure, a strongly fortified citadel designed for practicality rather than prettiness. Date: circa 1840

Colonel Hugh ODonnell d
Colonel Hugh O Donnell d.1799 (c.1795-96). Hamilton, Hugh Douglas 1739-1808. Colonel Hugh O Donnell was the eldest son of Sir Neal O Donnell of Newport, Co. Mayo, and served as M.P

Sir J Gordon Sprigg. Part of Box 104 Boswell Collection. Sprigg was born in Ipswich, England, into a strongly Puritan family

Japanese Tea and Saki
Japanese tea ceremony (Sado); a custom strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism, in which the many rituals must be learned by heart Date: circa 1860

Lear / Nonsense / Rhodes
There was an Old Person of Rhodes, who strongly objected to toads; He paid several cousins, to catch them by the dozens, that futile Old Person of Rhodes

The Melbourne Riots
A plain clothes policeman, in centre, using his revolver to keep strikers apart from a free labourer during the Melbourne Waterside Workers strike of 1928

Mount Athos, Greece
The monastery of Mount Athos, Greece, at one time housed more than six thousand monks, refugees from the wicked world beyond its strongly fortified walls

Marseille Riots
Marseille is strongly divided in its support for the Revolution : Mirabeau, always the adroit diplomat, quells the unrest and becomes a local hero

Donald H Menzel
Astronomer, author of three books taking a strongly sceptical approach to UFOs, considering them largely to be natural phenomena

FRENCHWOMAN 1795 - 2
The influence of Ancient Greece shows strongly in this high-waisted gown hanging in natural folds - expressing the idealism that inspired the dedicated Revolutionaries

John Hamilton
JOHN HAMILTON privy councillor who strongly opposed the union of England with Scotland

William IV & Wellington
READING THE TIMES William IV with Wellington : both were strongly opposed to Reform, but Wellington refused to serve as Premier, saying Peel was the right man

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