Images Dated 5th March 2016

World map by Mathieu Albert Lotter, Augsburg, 1778

World map from 1778. Original hand-colored copper engraving by Matthieu Albert Lotter (1741 - 1810, Augsburg) with route of James Cook's First Circumnavigation (1770), through Tahiti, around the two main island of New Zealand and down the eastern coast of Australia

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An ethnic minority delegate arrives for the opening session of the National People's

An ethnic minority delegate arrives for the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 5, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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August - Regatta

A lively regatta on a river in August, with spectator in grandstands, rowers in a tangle, drinking, smoking, people firing cannon and patriotic flags fluttering everywhere. From "The Comic Almanack for 1837: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest Containing All Things Fitting For Such Work by Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. - Adorned with a dozen of Righte Merrie Cuts pertaining to the Months, and an Hieroglyphic, by George Cruikshank." Published in London by Charles Tilt Bibliopolist, 1836

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