Images Dated 20th October 2007

Lee Surrenders to Grant
General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox Court House

Sikh Temple, Amritsar
SIKH TEMPLE, AMRITSAR Interior of the Golden Temple

Punch & Judy in Street
Grown-ups and children gather round a Punch & Judy in the street

Champagne Poster
Poster for Chauvet champagne

Ms - Lindisfarne Gospel
Illumination from the Lindisfarne Gospels or Gospels of Saint Cuthbert (page facing the Gospel of Saint John)

Indonesian Dancers
Two royal court dancers performing the female style of Javanese dance. The bent knees, flexed wrists and refined movements are characteristic of this style

Karl Marx / Ils 1871
KARL MARX German radical political thinker

Golf / French Lady
A French lady golfer prepares to hit the ball

Robert Emmet
ROBERT EMMET Irish patriot, hanged for treason

Menuhin / Yehudi / Postcard
YEHUDI MENUHIN Violinist as a young man

Richard Cromwell
RICHARD CROMWELL son of Oliver Cromwell, and briefly Lord Protector after his fathers death

Frances Ridley Havergal
FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL writer, at age 9

Louis IX (Butler)
LOUIS IX king of France, crusader and saint

Ac Pigou / Granta
ARTHUR CECIL PIGOU British economist

Darwin / Greenhouse / 1882
CHARLES DARWIN Greenhouse at his home in Downe, Kent, where the naturalist conducted his research

Saint Crispin
SAINT CRISPIN Patron saint of tanners and shoemakers : his feast-day is also the date of the battle of Agincourt, as Shakespeare reminds us. Date: circa 285

Mary Stewart, Ctess Mar
MARY STEWART, countess of MAR wife of John Erskine, 2nd (or 7th) earl, lord treasurer of Scotland

Millionaire Throws Cash
An American millionaire, Mr Chanel, wins at the casino - then throws his winnings from the window to passers-by

Catherine / Aragon / Divorce
The trial of the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. It ends in divorce

Shinto Temple, Japan
A SHINTO TEMPLE

Talleyrand / Boilly
PRINCE CHARLES-MAURICE TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD Prince de Benevent French statesman

Grandville / Comet
The peregrinations of a comet

Edward Jenner / Ridley
EDWARD JENNER Physician and pioneer of vaccination

Wales / Beddgelert
The supposed location of the folklore tale of the dog Gelert

Buddha Statue, Kamakura
The Daibutsu - a giant statue of the Buddha at Kamakura, Japan

General Dawes / Nobel 1926
GENERAL CHARLES GATES DAWES American statesman

George Monck / Anon
GEORGE MONCK, duke of ALBEMARLE military commander and statesman

Meyerbeer / Efg Postcard
GIACOMO MEYERBEER German composer of Italian operas

Iron Founder 1827
Founding molten iron straight from the furnace into a mould

Fort Sumter Bombarded
The bombardment of Fort Sumter

Indonesian Dancer
A Serimpie - Javanese dancer who would have performed at the royal court

Tom Thumb Wedding Group
TOM THUMB and LAVINIA WARREN on their wedding day, with their best man and bridesmaid

Joan of Arc at Chinon
JOAN OF ARC At the Chateau of Chinon, before her meeting with Charles VII. She is accompanied by Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy

Rainer Maria Rilke / Photo
RAINER MARIA RILKE German poet sitting at a table in a garden

Fw Herschel / Telescope
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomer discovering the planet Uranus in 1781, while his sister Caroline Lucretia takes notes

Nottingham / Castle Burns
Nottingham Castle is burned down during a riot by crowds supporting reform

Daniel Auber / Postcard
Daniel Francois Esprit Auber French Composer

Caproni Transaereo
The ambitious Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, optimistically depicted over Lago Maggiore, under test rises only a few metres before nose-diving into the lake, never to rise again

Mincing Lane / Building
This building housing offices and sale rooms is character- istic of the commercial buildings springing up all over London during the latter half of the 19th century

Communist Wolf Pack
THE RED GUARD The Communists depicted as a pack of wolves, ravening with glowing eyes

Young Girl on Bench 1950
A young girl sits on the arm of a bench

Communist International
The Praesidium of the opening Congress of the Third Communist International, at Moscow - Klinger, Eberlein, Lenin, Platten

14th Earl Derby (Pound)
EDWARD STANLEY 14th Earl of DERBY British Tory Statesman, thrice Prime Minister (1852, 1858-59 and 1866-68)

Stirling Downed by Me109
A Messerschmitt 109 poses before the British Short Stirling bomber it brought down - it has lost three of its engines - and the fourth looks fairly dodgy too

Heinrich Barth (B+W)
HEINRICH BARTH German traveller in Africa

Mary in Old Manuscript
from an English psalter of the 12th century

Saint Anne from an Ms
SAINT ANNE with her daughter Mary and her grandson Jesus

St Antony Tempted / Motte
SAINT ANTONY OF EGYPT He is tempted in an Egyptian tomb by a succession of outwardly attractive females, but he knows they are demons under the skin

California Vineyard
A vineyard in California

Tyrol Flower Picker
A woman picks wild flowers in June in the Austrian Tyrol

Highland Moors with Stag
Scottish, highland moor scene with a stag set against majestic hills

Hannibal / With Horse
HANNIBAL Carthaginian general, famous for his crossing of the Alps, seen here with his horse

Anne Clarges, Albemarle
ANNE CLARGES, duchess of ALBEMARLE wife of George Monck

Henrik Ibsen / Out Walking
HENRIK IBSEN Norwegian dramatist taking his daily walk

Queen Mary / Players / 50 / 50
QUEEN MARY Queen to George V

Henry Iv / Players / 13 / 50
KING HENRY IV OF ENGLAND Reigned 1399 - 1413

Jesus Scourged
He is scourged

Mary Told about Birth
An angel tells Mary that shes going to be a very special mother

Tobit is Healed
Tobit is healed of his blindness by the angel that his son Tobias met on his journey

Mcclintock / Franklin
McClintock in Fox discovers Franklins remains and the fate of the Franklin expedition. They also revealed about 800 miles of hitherto unknown coast. Date: 1857-59

Siege of Sidney Street
Various scenes from the Siege of Sidney Street

Samuel and Saul
At Gods command, he consecrates Saul king of the Jews

The Ark is Sent Away
The Philistines get rid of the Ark by putting it on a wagon and letting cows, deprived of their calves, lead it whithersoever they will : they take it back to Judea

Emma Hamilton / Rehburg 10
EMMA, LADY HAMILTON Wife of Lord Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, in one of her attitudes

Parry / Seal Hunt
Parrys second expedition: the expedition party drag back a seal they have sucessfully captured to eat

Leopold Ii / Belgium / Moloc
LEOPOLD II Assumed the title of sovereign over the Congo Free State in 1885. Severely criticised for his treatment of Congo natives

Franklin / Land Expedition
Ice breaking up during Franklins land expedition, parts of which they had to make in small boats, such as this one, which were rather precarious

Richard II Meets Henry
Richard II meets Henry IV at Flint Date: 1399

Humboldt / Delpech
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT German scientist and traveller in middle age

Costume / Women 1053
Three women of pre-Conquest England

Caernarvon Castle 1879

Bible Page / Cole
A Bible frontispiece showing various scenes from the bible

Barber Surgeons Hall
Monkwell Street : First built in the 15th century, destroyed and rebuilt at the time of the Great Fire, destroyed again in the 1940 blitz and replaced by a modern building in 1969

16th Century Townhouses
Houses in Butcher Row, London; the building on the right, demolished in 1798, is supposed to have been where the Gunpowder Plotters did their plotting

Tortoise and Hare
The Hare and The Tortoise and The Hare and The Frogs

Gulliver / Brobdingnag
Gulliver is carried in his little house

Edwardian Afternoon Tea
Typical Edwardians taking afternoon tea in the garden

Hadrians Wall
The Emperor Hadrian has a wall built on the Roman frontier as a protection against the Pictish people

Stanley / Emin Pasha Lands
Emin Pasha relief expedition : Emin lands at Stanleys lakeside camp

Stanley / Congo Jungle
Emin Pasha relief expedition : He leads his force out of the Congo jungle

Livingstone Attacked
He is attacked by a lion which shakes him as a terrier shakes a rat

Sir M Frobisher / Orr
SIR MARTIN FROBISHER English navigator

Franklin & Lighting 1758
He invents the lightning rod to channel lightning into the earth and so protect buildings from lightning damage

Jesus Taken down from X
His body is taken down from the Cross by family and friends

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