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Ufos / Masse / ValensoleMaurice Masse, a lavender farmer of Valensole, France, encounters two aliens beside their landed saucer in his field : they paralyse him with a kind of ray-gun
Nocturnal CloudsNOCTURNAL CLOUDS Clouds passing overhead at night, lit from below, have an appearance of solidity which can easily be mistaken for mysterious flying objects
Helicopter DiscThis disc-shaped saucer is propelled by conventional helicopter action, but more sophisticated than we know it, with in-built directional stability
Trench EntertainmentBritish soldiers off duty, smoking and listening to an accordion at the front, somewhere in Flanders
C-P OberkampfCHRISTOPHE-PHILIPPE OBERKAMPF French manufacturer who pioneered important advances in painted cloth processing, for which he was decorated by Napoleon while visiting him
Oliver Twist / BurglaryThe burglary
Skyhook BalloonsSkyhook high-altitude weather balloons, such as these used by the U.S.Navy, were liable to be perceived as UFOs by witnesses unfamiliar with them
Lenticular CloudsSeen under favourable conditions, lenticular clouds can look very solid, giving rise to misidentification as UFOs : these were photographed over Marseille, France
Saucer Postcard 1950SA comic postcard from the early days of the Flying Saucer era
Edward CondonEdward U Condon, scientific director of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects conducted by the University of Colorado, 1966 - 1968
Song of Sixpence 3 / 3Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four-and- twenty blackbirds baked in a pie... (3 of 3)
French Bureau, AlgeriaFRENCH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION IN ALGERIA - Algerians sit waiting outside the Bureau des Affaires Indigenes (Bureau of Indigenous Affairs) at Colomb- Bechar, in the Sud-Oranais
Mme De Pompadour / BoucherJEANNE-ANTOINETTE POISSON (MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR) - Mistress to Louis XV of France
MOLAY BURNS 1314 - 2Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master, is burnt alive at Paris on the orders of Philippe IV, bringing the once proud Order to an ignominious end
A Knight TemplarAn armed knight in the uniform of the order
American Prospectora Prospector Backpacks his Equipment
Parliament Plan / Iln / 1843Plan of the principal floor of the new Houses of Parliament
Theatre / The GlobeThe Globe theatre and bear baiting pit on Bankside, London
Evolution / Baby & MonkeysThe advent of the first human baby is celebrated by an admiring congregation of apes, who are holding a lamp to Darwins book " The Descent of Man" (1871)
2 Monks Meet a Nun, C13Two monks meet a nun
Edward II DeposedSir William Trufsell and other deputies receiving the resignation of Edward II
Wine of the CloistersGerman monks entertain a visitor with the wine of the cloister, while one of their number accompanies the revelry on the lute
Irish Monks WorkingIrish monks clearing the ground for an extension to their accommodation
Monks FarmingGerman monks farming
Theatine FriarsTHEATINE FRIARS (named after the Italian town of Theate, because its archbishop was one of the founders, 1524)
Lister / Empire LeadersJOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery
Ursuline NunURSULINE NUN devoted to Saint Ursula, massacred and buried at Koln
Augustinian Nun (Port. )DISCALCED NUN OF SAINT AUGUSTINE Portugal (nominally barefoot)
Order of AlcantaraORDER OF ALCANTARA Knight of this Spanish order, created in the 12th century to oppose the infidel Moors currently invading Spain
Order of CalatravaORDER OF CALATRAVA Spanish order created 1155 by a monk, Velasquez, under particularly dramatic circumstances (see text) to fight the infidel Moors
Teutonic Knights / MasterGrand Master, sword in hand
Antony of Padua (1195 -San Antonio di Padova depicted with Jesus
Polar Bear / Cubs / DierenA polar bear tends to her cubs while a group of men, who have just rowed up from their ship which is moored some way away, look on
Bear / The Hunter HuntedIn a snowy wood, the bear successfully hunts down the hunter
Yellowstone Bear AttacksIn Yellowstone, a bear pats a woman in a car, but her friend gets angry, so the bear starts to drag her out of the car... until the park warden stops him
Soldiers ReverieA SOLDIERs REVERIE - he dreams hes back on the farm with his girl
(Old) London BridgeA general view of the old London bridge, completed in 1209, with the houses which were built upon it in the subsequent centuries
(Old) London BridgeLondon Bridge in its original state, before houses were built upon it
Vampire Bats / RengadeA vampire bat bites the neck of a sleeping girl in as hammock
Bat / Anon / ColA bat
Siamang Monkey / JckA siamang monkey sitting on a branch
Everetts Langur / JckEveretts langur sitting on a branch
Chimpanzee / Jck IllusA bald chimpanzee
Gorilla / Illustrator JckA gorilla hanging in a tree
Byron BoatingGEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON at age 21, standing by his boat, with an unnamed friend, in an unidentified location, but wherever it is, its suitably wild and romantic
Denis Papin & KettleDENIS PAPIN French pioneer of the steam engine, depicted formulating his theories in just the way Watt did, by watching a kettle steaming in the hearth
Aloys Senefelder / ChereauALOYS SENEFELDER Prague-born German inventor of lithography, depicted in his workshop demonstrating his process
Nicot and TobaccoJEAN NICOT French diplomat who introduced tobacco from Portugal into France, depicted presenting it to Catherine de Medicis; he gave his name to nicotine