Images Dated 29th July 2015 (page 7)

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up! Date: 1899

UFO over Balwyn, Melbourne
Unidentified flying object photographed over Balwyn, a suburb of Melbourne. A hoax seems likely... Date: 2 April 1966

DEATH, VENEZUELA CACIQUE
Venezuelans mourn the death of a cacique (chief) Date: 1737

INFANTICIDE PREVENTED
Missionaries in China seek to end Chinese infanticide. For many Chinese, to bear female children is a thing to be ashamed of and many girls are buried alive Date: circa 1850

MUSSOLINI ON MOTORBIKE
Mussolini is warmly applauded when he leads a rally at Rome driving his own motorcycle Date: May 1933

OSWALD MOSLEY / SALUTE 33
OSWALD ERNALD MOSLEY British politician, founded British Union of Facists, known as the Blackshirts (1932), saluting. Date: 1896 - 1980

Central African cannibal
Pahouins of Central Africa tuck in to a fellow creature. Date: 1905

Brazilian cannibals depicted by de Bry
Cannibals reported by Portuguese conquistadores. Here some are shown roasting their victims on a spit. Date: 1530

Brazilian cannibals, 1530
Cannibals reported by Portuguese conquistadores. Here some are shown roasting their victims on a spit. Date: 1530

Father Serapion martyred in Algeria, North Africa
Father Serapion, an English or Irish Mercedarian friar, offers himself as a hostage in order to free captive Christians in Algeria, North Africa

POPE HADRIANUS VI (Adriaan Dedel) the only Dutch pope Date: reigned 1522 - 1523

Marriage, Ancient Greece
Eager groom, shy bride

SMENKHKARE, PHARAOH probably a younger brother of his predecessor Akhenaten, he died young after only two years as sole ruler (18th dynasty) Date: reigned 1336 - 1334 BC

Illustration, La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), Battle of Roncevaux (778). Charlemagne hears Rolands horn, calling for help, but they will arrive too late to save the hero. Date: 778

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
FRIEDRICH ENGELS German political theorist working on Das Kapital with Marx Date: 1820 - 1895

ENGLAND / GRAVESEND
New Road, Gravesend (Kent) - notice the premises of The Wonderful Mutoscope (a forerunner of the cinema) - Admission Free ! Date: 1906

PUNKAH-WALLAH
A PUNKAH-WALLAH keeps the air moving while eleven servants wait on 8 or 9 British diners Date: circa 1840

RADIO / WW2 GERMAN ARMY
German army with field radio in operation Date: 1940

DANTE IN HELL
Virgil is Dantes guide on a tour of Inferno; they come across some evildoers punished by being placed up to their necks in ice

Pirate Long John Silver with his parrot on his shoulder
Long John Silver with his parrot on his shoulder Date: First published: 1883

Tarot Card 15 - Le Diable (The Devil). Date: 20th century

Coronation of King Edward II
Edward II crowned King of England at Westminster Date: 25th February 1308

Dante / Divine Comedy / Map
A map of Inferno to Dantes La Divina Commedia. Date: First published: 1307-21?

Fairies dancing in a circle beneath the trees

T ROOSEVELT/BUFFALO 1910
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 26th American President with a dead buffalo Date: 1858 - 1919

T ROOSEVELT/LION 1910
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 26th American President with hunting colleague Mr Tarlton and a dead lion Date: 1858 - 1919

SWEDEN BOMBED BY USSR
Gravestones in the Swedish village of Pajala, which was bombed by the Russians. Soviet radio denied the bombings, but Soviet planes and bombs were clearly seen. Date: 1940

NAPOLEON IN THE VALLEY
Napoleon may have tamed the Russian Bear, but other enemies threaten him in the Valley of the Shadow of Death Date: 1808

NAPOLEON'S HANDIWORK
Napoleon views his handiwork : Death comments : Yet more atrocities, more deaths, more ruins... Date: 1815

BATTLE OF LEIPZIG 1813
In the course of the battle of LEIPZIG Major von Krofigt dies heroically at Moeckern Date: 16 October 1813

FRANCO'S ARMY IN MADRID
Franco's victorious army enters Madrid Date: 1939

SPANISH CIVIL/PRISONERS
Government prisoners under the guard of Nationalist soldiers Date: 1936

GRAVES OF INKERMAN DEAD
Graves of the dead from the battle of Inkerman Date: November 1854

LORD RAGLAN FUNERAL
LORD RAGLAN DIES His funeral cortege leaves his headquarters at Khutor Karagatch Date: June 1855

JOHN LYDGATE/VERTUE
JOHN LYDGATE English poet and Benedictine monk, with a Dance of Death Date: 1370? - 1450?

Vertice Magazine Cover Events Spain Civil War
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ITALIAN LEGIONARIES
Italian legionaries leave Spain for home with a nation's blessing for their generous courage in fighting the Nationalist cause in the civil war Date: 1938

NASHVILLE/TRENCHES STORM
The storming of the trenches at Franklin-Nashville. Date: November 1864

BOOK IS OUR BEST FRIEND
The Provincial Council of Valencia, a pro-republican city during the civil war, encourages workers to educate themselves with the slogan: the book is our best friend Date: 1936 - 1939

Civil War Poster Peasant Events Spain Posters
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REVOLUTION POSTER/1936-9
A poster from the anarchist groups, CNT & AIT, proclaims Peasants! The revolution, apart from giving you land, will give you machines to work it Date: 1936 - 1939

Dr Syntax, Death of Punch (his horse). Date: 1821

VICTORIA/WILLIAM DEAD
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chamberlain bring the news of the death of King William IV to Princess Victoria at 5 in the morning Date: 20 June 1837

NATIONALISTS REACH SEA
General Camillo Alonzo makes the sign of the cross as Franco's Nationalists reach the Mediterranean Date: 1938

REPUBLICANS RETREAT/1937
Republicans forced to retreat from their forest hideout at Torrija/Trijeque Date: 1937

CARLIST SUPPORTER POSTER
Young and old stand together with pride as members of the Requetes, the Carlist militia movement who wanted a return to a traditionalist ultra- Catholic monarchy Date: 1937

Italians Fight Basques Events Spain Civil War
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NATIONALIST VICTORY/1937
Nationalists capture the sanctuary of Caradonga; the pro-Nationalist Italian reporter sees this as a triumph of patriotic heroism over barbaric atheism Date: 1937

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