Images Dated 21st December 2010 (#32)

Advert / Dubonnet Aperitif
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Racial / Japan / Women / Snow
Japanese women in the snow, children snowballing in the background

The Good Shepherd
The parable of THE GOOD SHEPHERD finding the lost sheep

Stalingrad Tractor Plant
Battle in Tractor Plant, later the last stand for the Germans before the liberation of Stalingrad

Ugly Duckling (Boyle)
The old cottage woman, with her distaff and her animal companions : often such solitary females were suspected of witchcraft

Cluniac Monk
Cluniac monk of Melton Mowbray, England, with his cowl

The R101 before Flight
THE R.101 : hundreds of men are required to manoeuvre the cumbersome airship on the ground, preparatory to its disastrous first (and last) flight

Ancient Olympics
In the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only event in the Ancient Olympics

Helston Cornwall Furry
THE FLORAL DANCE takes place during Furry day at Helston, Cornwall At noon, couples in evening wear dance between the houses to bring the occupiers good luck

Clog Dance / Toaduff
CLOG DANCING / ENGLISH STEP DANCE An audience watch a demonstration by Jackie Toaduff, at the York Summer Festival

Happy Families / Mr Bones
" Happy Families" was devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

W. H. AUDEN English writer

Japanese Samurai Fighter
The Samurai hero Yashitzone in combat with an armoured opponent

Luther in the Pulpit
Martin Luther in the pulpit

Classical Myth / Lilith
LILITH, night vampire probably of Babylonian origin, supposed to haunt wildernesses. In Rabbinical writings she is supposed to have been Adams first wife

Frank Reades Airship
Frank Reade and his New Electric Air Ship, the Eclipse - a dramatic scene as the wonderful aircraft deals with the Yellow Peril

KINGs LYNN MART, 1920S
Kings Lynn Mart, featuring a proscenium painted by George Orton, Sons & Spooner Date: 1920s

England / Malvern
THE BEACON, WORCESTERSHIRE A windy day on the Beacon

Saint Scholastica
SAINT SCHOLASTICA Italian nun of Plombariola, near Monte Cassino where her friend St Benedict lived

Dryden / Alt Berlin / 49
Poster from a Christmas exhibition, Berlin

Aspland Carousel
Asplands Switchback Motor Cars, built up at Savages Yard, Kings Lynn

Athanasius Kircher
ATHANASIUS KIRCHER German Jesuit, scholar, mathematician, archeologist

Sher. Holmes & Watson
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Holmes & Watson catch a glimpse of the mysterious stranger in a hansom cab in Regent Street

Andalusian Poultry
Andalusian cockerel and hen (Gallus species)

King Alfred Reading
KING OF THE WEST SAXONS King Alfred reading

March of the Israelites
The march of the Israelites, carrying the Ark of the Covenant containing the two tablets of the Law, regarded as the basis of the covenant between Yahweh and Israel

Apache Dance, 1908
APACHE DANCERS : by a strange swing of fashion the sinister gangsters of the Paris under- world are seen as picturesque, and their macho dance style becomes the craze of the day

The Lost World / Doyle
The glade of the iguanodons

Dorian Gray by Curtain
Dorian Gray

John Ball / Agitator
JOHN BALL English rebel; priest excommunicated for inflammatory sermons and leader of Peasant Revolt

Humanised turkey in the role of a banker
A humanised turkey dressed in a suit, cast in the role of a fat banker, surrounded by bags of money

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, traveller and writer, in her canoe on the Ogooue (Ogowe) River in Gabon, West Central Africa, in 1896

Mr Popple Drunk 1898
After a convivial hunt breakfast at Hopham Hall, Mr Popple is found drunk and disorderly in charge of a horse

Five Monkeys
Five types of monkey: Ursine Howler, White-Headed Capuchin, Squirrel Monkey, Marikina or Lion Monkey, and Lemur

Girl Reading in Tree
A little girl hides, high up in a linden tree, reading her book

London Bridge (New Version), words and music
London Bridge is broken down, ... My fair Lady! Build it up with penny loaves... iron and steel... silver and gold... etc

Horticultural Society conservatory, Chiswick, London
People inside the large conservatory (or greenhouse) of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, west London

Eviction in County Kerry, Ireland
A poor family are evicted from their home in County Kerry, Ireland

Builders at work in the foreground, with partially completed buildings in the background

Range of bakery tools and ingredients
A range of bakery tools and ingredients, including a pair of scales, a bucket, a sieve, mixing paddles and a sack of flour

Various butchery tools
Tools used in butchery, including a mallet, a chopper, an axe, and various knives and cleavers

Poster advertising Union Castle cruises -- East or West Coast to Europe

Grand National Waterjump
Horses and riders leap over the water jump on the Grand National course at Aintree in 1897. The winner, Manifesto is seen in the lead

Margaret Thatcher
Portrait of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister 1979-1990

Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1891-1976) English novelist and crime fiction writer, pictured in caricature as a figure looming over a rather humorous crime scene

Milk boy with three-wheeled cart & cans
A three-wheeled handcart, used to deliver milk in the East End of London. Two deliveries were made every morning and filled bottles

Demobilisation after Wwi
Scenes at Crystal Palace at the end of the WWI showing soldiers demobilising at a rate of over 4000 a day

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