Images Dated 2nd October 2007 (#57)

Shakespeare / Statue
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwright and poet. A full length statue

England / Aldeburgh / 1895
At this date, Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast, is still a thriving fishing village : but that bathing hut is a sign that the holidaymakers are coming

Ibsen / Dolls House
A DOLLS HOUSE The famous French actress Suzanne Despres in the role of Nora

LAO-TZU Chinese philosopher

Victor Hugo
VICTOR HUGO with scenes from two of his books

Pope Pius X (Van. Fair)
POPE PIUS X (Giuseppe Sarto) pope and saint

Attacking the Bastille
PRISE DE LA BASTILLE The Paris mob attacks the Bastille prison

Reform Club Library / Iln
The library of the Reform Club

Galahad & Round Table
Sir Galahad is introduced to the Round Table

Chiswick Hse from Garden
Chiswick House viewed from the garden: seat of the late Earl of Burlington

England / Burton Agnes
BURTON AGNES HALL where the ghost of one of three sisters, killed by a robber, caused violent disturbance until her skull was brought into the house she loved

Girls own Annual
Cover of the Girls Own Annual for 1930, showing two teenage girls in a punt

Kitchener / Army Celebs
Horatio, Lord Kitchener 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum Soldier

Thucydides / Bust
THUCYDIDES Greek historian, wrote his history while exiled for perceived military failure

Postcard / Minister
A Minister assailed by Suffragettes outside the House of Commons

Mary Kingsley
MARY HENRIETTA KINGSLEY Traveller and writer

Book / Peter Pan Dances
Peter Pan dances with his shadow

Cat as a Judge / Wain
A cat dressed as a judge

Cold Collation Dishes
COLD COLLATION DISHES pigeon pie - game pie - cutlets and other meat dishes

Napoleon at Waterloo
As the tide of battle turns against him, he realises that he has lost the battle

Napoleon in Egypt
NAPOLEON I during the Egyptian campaign, 1798

Punch, Toby, Clown
Mr Punch with Toby the dog and a clown

Punch Throws Baby (Anon)
Mr Punch throws the baby in the air

Napoleon (Defeated)
NAPOLEON, emperor defeated at Fontainebleau, 1814

Napoleon (David)
NAPOLEON, emperor circa 1804

Pentonville Prison Cell
PENTONVILLE A cell in the prison, with a hammock for sleeping and a loom for day-work

Modern Style Home
A suburban home in the modern style - a visitor arrives for dinner

Saint Odo (Card)
SAINT ODO OF CLUNY Patron saint of junkmen

St Vincent Died 304
SAINT VINCENT Martyr and Deacon to Bishop Valerius of Saragossa (put to death by Diocletian in Valencia)

Immanuel Kant (Schnorr)
IMMANUEL KANT German philosopher

Azerbaijan / Baku / Iln / 1885
City on the west coast of the Caspian Sea

Karl Marx / Shukow 1898
KARL MARX German political theorist

St John Chrysostom / Butle
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Syrian prelate of Antioch archbishop of Constantinople, banished by royals but loved by populace. His name means golen-mouthed given him

Bernadette / Grotto 1905
The grotto of Massabielle at the beginning of the 20th century - showing the statue, and crutches left by those who, miraculously, don t need them any more

Saint Joseph
SAINT JOSEPH putative or nominal father of Jesus of Nazareth, husband of Mary, woodworker by trade: credited with royal descent from David, King of Israel

Crossing River on Reed
The Chinese patriarch, the Bodhidharma Po-Ti Ta-Mo, needing to cross the Yangtse river, stands on a reed which obligingly ferries him over

Barber / Mr Block
Mr Block the Barber, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Leander Starr Jameson
SIR LEANDER STARR JAMESON known as Dr Jameson Scottish-born physician; adventurer and administrator in South Africa

Rudolph Steiner
RUDOLPH STEINER Austrian philosopher, as a young man

Napoleon at Moscow
He watches Moscow burn

IVAN BUNIN
IVAN ALEKSEYEVICH BUNIN Russian writer

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Non-conformist preacher

Saint Bartholomew
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE travelling and preaching Date: 1ST CENTURY

Saint Joseph Dreams
Saint Joseph dreams that he is visited by an angel who tells him that he is going to be the father of Jesus

LUTHERs 95 THESES
Luther nails to the church door at Wittenberg his 95 theses attacking the sale of indulgences by the Roman Catholic Church, thereby initiating the Reformation

Palm Tree Sago 19C
Palm tree (sago): Cycas Ruminiana. Date: 19th century

First Gas Balloon 1787
The first manned flight in a gas balloon, over Paris

Suffragette woman in the stocks, unsympathetic cartoon
Unsympathetic comment on Votes or Women 1913

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