Images Dated 3rd October 2007 (page 3)

E Bulwer Lytton / Maclise
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Writer, dramatist and politician

E Bulwer Lytton / Anon Eng
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Writer, dramatist and politician

Children with their Guy
Children parade their guy through the streets : note its hat - an attempt to mimic the papal tiara, a sign of the surviving anti-papal significance of the tradition

Trafalgar Day
TRAFALGAR DAY Nelsons victory over the French, on 21 October 1805, is commemorated every year on the deck of his flagship, the Victory, at Portsmouth

Siege of Copenhagen 1659
Map of the siege of Copenhagen, Denmark by Carl X Gustav of Sweden

Blessing Animals, Bulgar
An Orthodox priest blesses the livestock on a Bulgarian farm

Raising his Hat, 1864
A gentleman raises his hat to a lady, but the gentlemen accompanying her eye him with suspicion; has he raised it too high, or not high enough ?

Maori Greeting
One Maori greets another, and vice versa, by each of the two individuals rubbing his or her nose against that of the other

Spa - Vittel
VITTEL La Grande Source visitors taking the waters

Ordeal by Ducking
ORDEAL BY DUCKING The suspect is bound and thrown into a river; if he drowns he is innocent, if he floats he is guilty

Ordeal by Cold Water
ORDEAL BY COLD WATER TUB The suspect is bound tightly and immersed in a tub of cold water; if he drowns he is innocent, if not, not

Ordeal by Boiling Water
ORDEAL BY BOILING WATER The suspect is required to plunge his hand into boiling water - if he can bear it, he is innocent, if not, not

Ordeal by Redhot Metal
ORDEAL BY RED-HOT METAL The suspect is required to grasp a bar of heated metal - if he can hold it, he is innocent, if not, not

Ordeal by Ducking
Ordeal by water : the suspect bound hand and foot is thrown into exorcised water. If he drowns, the water has accepted him and he is innocent, if he floats, rejected, hes guilty

Solomon Judgment / Dore
King Solomon has to decide which of two women, claiming a baby, is the rightful mother

Solomon Judgment / Poussin
King Solomon has to decide which of two women, claiming a baby, is the rightful mother

Roman Wagon
A Roman wagon used in Gaul, here employed to carry wine or water

The Grotto at Lourdes
Pilgrims gather at the Grotto where Bernadette Soubirous met the Virgin Mary : probably no other riverside rock has attracted so many visitors

Robert Whitehead
ROBERT WHITEHEAD English engineer, inventor of the self-propelling torpedo; had a factory in Fiume

France / Montigny-Le-Gan
Chateau de Montigny-le-Ganelon (Eure-et-Loir)

France / Rosny
Chateau de Rosny (Seine-et-Oise)

France / Clisson
Chateau de Clisson (Loire-Inferieure)

France / Ecouen
Chateau d Ecouen (Seine-et-Oise)

France / Bazoches
Chateau de Bazoches (Nievre)

France / Guillaume
Chateau Guillaume (Indre)

France / Meudon
Chateau de Meudon (Seine-et-Oise)

France / Montreuil-Bellay
Chateau de Montreuil-Bellay (Maine-et-Loire)

France / Breze
Chateau de Breze (near Saumur, Loire)

France / Coucy
Chateau de Coucy (Aisne)

France / La Roche Lambert
Chateau de La Roche Lambert (Haut-Loire)

France / Brissac
Chateau de Brissac (Maine-et-Loire)

France / Vaux-Praslin
Chateau de Vaux-Praslin (Seine-et-Marne)

France / Josselin
Chateau de Josselin (Morbihan)

France / La Motte-Glain
Chateau de La Motte-Glain (Loire-Inferieure)

Chateau De Rambures
Chateau de Rambures (Somme)

France / Villebon / C 1890
Chateau de Villebon (Eure-et-Loir)

Chateau / Plessis-Bourre
Chateau de Plessis-Bourre (Maine-et-Loire)

France / Fervacques
Chateau de Fervacques (Calvados)

France / Lagrangefort
Chateau de Lagrangefort (Puy-de-Dome)

France / Serrant
Chateau de Serrant (Maine-et-Loire)

France / Mont Saint-Michel
Mont Saint-Michel (Manche)

France / Villandry
Chateau de Villandry (Indre-et-Loir)

France / Saint-Blancard
Chateau de Saint-Blancard (Gers)

France / Courtalain
Chateau de Courtalain (Eure-et-Loir)

France / La Muette Chateau
Chateau de La Muette (Passy)

FRANCE / VEZ
Chateau de Vez (Oise)

France / Bonnetable
Chateau de Bonnetable (Sarthe)

Chateau De Chastellux
Chateau de Chastellux (Yonne) Date: circa 1890

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