Images Dated 29th February 2008

Honey bees on a honeycomb

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) on a honeycomb. The chambers in a honeycomb are created using wax secreted by the bees. The chambers are then filled with honey, using nectar obtained from flowers, and capped with wax. These honeycombs are part of a beehive, a structure built by a beekeeper who removes honeycombs and harvests the honey in them. Because bees store honey to provide food over winter, the bee keeper replaces it with syrup for the bees to feed upon. Photographed in the Novgorod region of Russia

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Bazalgette, The Thames Embankment, 1867 (litho)

GHL293398 Bazalgette, The Thames Embankment, 1867 (litho) by English School, (19th century); London Metropolitan Archives, City of London; (add.info.: Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819-91) was one of the great English civil engineers of the Victorian era, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London, which helped relieve the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the clean-up of the River Thames; Chief engineer of the London Metropolitan Board of Works; cross-section; ); A© London Metropolitan Archives ; English, out of copyright

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Bougainvillea blooming

Bougainvillea blooming, island of Martinique, Lesser Antilles, French West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

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