Thought Collection (page 8)

Timber-Frame / Lincoln
A timber-frame house built on a bridge in Lincoln. The house dates from 1540, but the bridge is thought to be Norman and one of the oldest in Britain

Supreme being Fete
Robespierre orders a Festival of the Supreme Being, in the Tuileries and the Champ de Mars, Paris : but he is thought by many to be setting himself up as high priest

Romanov Deathplace
Someone thought it worth while taking a photo, however poor, of the building where the tsar and his family were murdered

Bomb Accident
The accidental explosion of a bomb at the Hotel Bristol, St Petersburg, is at first thought a deliberate plot, but is found to be an insuffic- -iently careful terrorist

A working fairy dressed in a green smock looks like he has just thought of a very good idea

Roberts Enters Pretoria
Lord Roberts enters Pretoria triumphantly after the Boer capitals surrender. After Mafekings earlier relief, many thought the war over but it dragged on two years longer

Pretty Fish Girl
If you thought all fishwives are foul-mouthed and homely, think again - this Scottish lass proves the contrary

Black, if I should Lose
IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU (Dorothy Black) She thought marriage unnecessary - till she lost him

Raleighs Pipe Put Out
Sir Walter Raleigh, smoking, is thought by his servant to be on fire

Ufo, 1930 Fantasy
In THE VAPOR INTELLIGENCE by Jack Barnette, riflemen drive off a mysterious machine, thought to be from Jupiter

Robert Parsons - 3
ROBERT PARSONS Jesuit missionary in England, thought to have been the leading conspirator against Elizabeth and the instigator of the Gunpowder Plot

Raleigh Smoking in Chair
SIR WALTER RALEIGH - Having picked up the smoking habit during his American travels, is thought by his servants to be on fire, and is doused with a basin of water

Water Babies / Tom / Moon
Tom " sat upon a little point of rock, & looked up at the broad yellow moon, & wondered what she was, & thought that she looked at him."

Folklore / Hare-Witch
The hare-witch of Berry, central France; sometimes they are thought to be malevolent humans who have disguised themselves

Krao the Hairy Girl - 2
When KRAO was brought from Burma to London, aged about 6/7, some thought she might be the missing link between apes & men : but in fact she was simply a very hairy girl

Kitty Maxse / Downey Sepia
KATHARINE MAXSE nee Lushington known as KITTY MAXSE Wife of Leopold Maxse, thought to have been a model for Virginia Woolfs character, Mrs Dalloway

U-Boat Gets Wrong Ship
Oh sorry! I thought you were a neutral vessel! says the German U-boat commander

Control Briefs 1935
And you thought tummy control knickers were a modern invention. This pair of Slenderline undies have a new point-yoke for a flat fit, without bulkiness

Kitty Maxse / E&f Sepia
KATHARINE MAXSE nee Lushington known as KITTY MAXSE Wife of Leopold Maxse, thought to have been a model for Virginia Woolfs character, Mrs Dalloway

Dinner with a Dog C1815
A lady of the French aristocracy - thought to be la princesse de Vaudemont - dines en tete-a-tete with her dog, to whom she is offering a leg of chicken

Walther Von Klingen
Walther von Klingen, a German minnesinger, thought to have lived between 1240 and 1286

Dietmar Von Eist 12C
Dietmar von Eist, German poet, generally thought to have lived between 1139 and 1171

Walther Van Der Vogelwei
Walther von der Vogelweide, poet, thought to have been born in Austria around 1170, and died sometime after 1228

Scholar of Laputa
A scholar of Laputa, deep in thought, is attended by a servant whose duty it is to rouse him to a sense of reality should the need arise

Tom Brown has a Fight
Each fighting as if he thought to finish the whole thing out of hand

Man Traps and Guns
A gentleman seeking refuge from a bull finds that the woods into which he had thought to escape are beset with man-traps and spring- guns

Zodiacal Light (Cigcard)
This mysterious light is thought to be sunlight reflected off dust or meteoritic particles floating in space

Solomons Mines / Haggard
Allan Quartermain saves the servant Umbopa, thought by the witch to be evil

Philip the Apostle 3
Though mentioned from time to time in the Gospel, we know little about him: he is thought to have preached in Greece until crucified at Hierapolis. Date: first century

Philip the Apostle + X
SAINT PHILIP THE APOSTLE Though mentioned sporadically in the Gospel, we know little about him : he is thought to have preached in Greece until he was crucified and stoned

The Louvre, Paris
At some stage someone thought of renaming the Louvre the Musee Napoleon - hence the caption. But we are in the Louvre, and heres the Venus de Milo to prove it

Norman Curfew Check
The Curfew law traditionally thought to have been initiated by William I; after the curfew bell is rung at 8 o clock, guards make sure that all fires have been put out

Arabella Seymour
Lady ARABELLA SEYMOUR (nee Stuart) - wife of sir William Seymour : related to royalty, thought to be dangerous so imprisoned in the Tower. with her autograph

Walter Devereux Essex
WALTER DEVEREUX, earl of ESSEX soldier and statesman, active in Ireland : rival of Leicester who is generally thought to have poisoned him. with his autograph

Churchill at Sidney Street
WINSTON CHURCHILL, then Home Secretary, is seen with a with a posse of policemen during the Siege of Sidney Street in Stepney, London

Bewick Dingo
Named by Bewick the New South Wales Wolf because he thought it more like a wolf than a dog. As a small boy, I was bitten by one at Whipsnade

Chevrotain (Bewick)
Bewick thought the Chevrotain, or little Guinea Deer, was an antelope, but it is today recognised as a small version of the musk-deer. The Meminna beside it is from Sri Lanka

Dutch Weight
Satirical comment on the way the Dutch were thought to have cheated the Native Americans by mis-weighing furs

Christmas once a Year
A wait of 365 days until the next Christmas Day is an upsetting thought for this small boy

Punch Judy Italy
Puncinello, the Italian equivalent of Mr Punch, is thought by some to have derived his name from Pontius Pilate, from the Jesus legend

Paper at Turkestan
Ppaper of the kind we know today is thought to have been invented in Turkestan in the 6th century : here it is being sold at Samarkand in present- day Uzbekistan

Ww1 / 1918 / German Offensiv
German Spring Offensive: the Germans counter-attack when thought to be defeated

Thought Reading
The fashionable amusement of pretending to discern ideas in other persons minds has adepts who occasionally succ- -eed in performing this feat to the wonder of spectators

Thoughtforms - 37, 39
37 - Sympathy and Love for all 39 - as Above, but Influenced by Oriental Thought

Death of Herakles
The death of Herakles after absorbing the toxic blood of Nessus which was on his tunic, put there by his wife, Deianira, who thought it would help her regain his favour

Greek Vowel Talisman
GREEK VOWEL TALISMAN the seven Greek vowels were thought by some to have a special power, and were inscribed on talismans

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