Images Dated 12th November 2008

Spring-Heeled Jack

Spring-Heeled Jack, a devil-like character of English urban legend escapes from an angry mob at Newport Arch in Lincoln, 1877. Jack was first sighted in London in 1837, and was described as tall and thin, with fiery eyes, claws, and a capacity for making prodigious leaps. An engraving from Illustrated Police News, pub. 1877. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Illustration of incomplete cadel flourishing, a decorative extension to ascending or descending strokes, showing how the letter is drafted in pencil before applying ink

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Cartoon of purple Sea Urchin (Echinoidea) using shells and seaweed debris as camouflage it carries on back from predatory fish swimming above

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