Images Dated 26th April 2019

Gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis

Nest and eggs of the gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis. Cat bird, Minus carolinensis. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentry's Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia, 1881

© Florilegius

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The new R.A.F. Centrifuge 1955

Testing the effects of gravitational stresses experienced by pilots at high speeds: the new R.A.F. centrifuge at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough, Hampshire. The main purpose of the apparatus is to investigate the effects of the force of gravity (G force) which causes pilots to black-out when changing direction at high speed. Date: 1955

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Outbreak of WWII - theatres close down

Covers being drawn over seats in the auditorium of the Palace Theatre in Manchester. All theatres in London and the provinces were initially closed due to a war order concerning places where crowds were likely to congregate. Date: 1939

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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