Successful Collection (page 8)

Miss Vera Phillips
MISS VERA PHILLIPS One of Messrs Lafayettes most successful child studies

A Good Days Work
A GOOD DAYs WORK IN THE COVERS - counting the bag after a successful day slaughtering scores of beautiful pheasants

French Wolf Hunt
Returning home after a successful wolf hunt : this is a sporting event, without the rationale of ridding the countryside of an unwelcome predator

Balloon Attacked / 1783
The unmanned balloon is attacked on landing at Gonesse after a successful flight from Paris

Purvess Dynasphere
The Dynasphere designed by Dr J A Purves of Taunton, England, makes a successful test run, achieving 48 km/h

Saint Vincent Ferrier
SAINT VINCENT FERRIER (or FERRER)Spanish Dominican who had a stormy career but won renown as a phenomenally successful preacher on the theme of penance

Nicolaus Flamel
NICOLAUS FLAMEL French occultist, moneylender and alchemist. He is said to have gained vast treasures by successful transmutation

Doctors House Call
An 18th century doctor arrives in a sedan chair to pay a house call : only the really successful practitioners have their own carriage

Barry Delivers Prologue
ANN SPRANGER BARRY delivers the Prologue to John Hones highly successful Douglas which prompted a Scottish theatregoer to cry out Waurs your Willy Shakespeare noo ?

Napoleon at Toulon
His successful siege of Toulon forces the English to evacuate the town

Adah Menken / Lune 1867
Adah Menken, American actress, with a brief but controversial life story - this cartoon was done on the occasion of her very successful Paris visit

Spion Kop - Anon
At SPION KOP, the British are initially successful, but are compelled to retreat from the hilltop they have captured, failing to break through the Boer lines

French Dowser
Near Paris, a Congress of Experimental Psychology holds a successful demonstration of dowsing

First Montgolfier / Cig Cd
PILATRE DE ROZIER and the MARQUIS D ARLANDES make the first successful manned flight in a Montgolfier balloon (hot air) at Paris

Langleys Failure
Samuel Pierpont Langleys full-size flying machine fails over the Potomac, Washington, though trials with models had been successful

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