Won Collection (page 8)

Helen Wills Moody (left), American tennis champion, photographed with Miss Coward (?) or Rowland (?). Known as Little Miss Poker Face, Wills Moody won Wimbledon eight times

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

Mikhail Isakovsky
MIKHAIL ISAKOVSKY Russian poet whose subjects - such as rural electrification - won him praise in the 1920s; his popular songs were widely sung by peasants and soldiers

Elizabeth Butler Photo
LADY ELIZABETH BUTLER (nee Thompson) artist who won instant fame with The roll call, a military subject which made Ruskin realise women, too, could paint

Etalon Mulassier
This 7-year old stallion, understandably, won first prize at the agricultural show at Niort

William Grants Lands
William I, having won the throne of Britain, grants lands to his followers - in this case, his nephew, le comte de Bretagne

Social / Savoy Derby 1914
After the races: Derby night at the Savoy Hotel, London - those who have won, celebrate with champagne; those who have lost, drown their grief in the same beverage

RACEHORSE HARKAWAY
A portrait of the racehorse Harkaway, who won the 1838 Goodwood Cup, in his stable

Mata Hari / Spanish Dance
MATA HARI (= Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) Dutch-born dancer at the Folies Bergere, Paris, where her Spanish Dance won the praise of the critic Serano

The Maccabees, whose family won religious and political independence for the Jews, whom they ruled from 166 BC to 63 BC, and as priests till 37 BC

Lady Rider in Race
Mrs Thornton races against Mr Flint at Knavesmire, Yorkshire, and would have won comfortably but for an accident to her saddle, all agreeing she deserved to win

Clipper / Spindrift
British sailing clipper for the China tea trade, which in 1868 won the ocean race from China to England

Punic Wars: Ecnomus
PUNIC WARS Naval battle of ECNOMUS :the Roman fleet won a hard-fought victory over the Carthaginians nearly 700 vessels took part

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