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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) addressing a meeting in New York State. Roosevelt		Icon of St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury, with the Holy Grail and the staff		Mao Tse - Tung (Mao Zedong), Chinese propaganda poster		The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154, an important		Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) in 1746. German composer and organist. Portrait
(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American humanitarian. Chairman UN Human Rights		Minoans Traders: wall painting from Acrotiri in Thera (Santorini) showing Minoan ships		Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss mathematician. Einstein sailing		Mesmer's tub at his consulting room in parish which opened soon after his treatise		The Wolf-Charmer. Illustration by John La Farge published New York 1881. Belief in
1973 when the Chilean government headed by Salvador Allende was toppled by a military		Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian pianist and composer. After a photograph		'Scotland for Ever'. The charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo, 18 June 1815		Drakkar. Viking longships under sail. Watercolour by Albert Sebille (1874-1953)		Giant limestone statues of Ramses II (Rameses - 1304-1237 BC) holding the crook
Edwin Powell Hubble (1899-1953) American astronomer who discovered 'red shift'		Dutch and Belgian forces in action at the Battle of Waterloo, 8 June 1815		Reconstruction of medieval conception of the universe showing a flat earth surrounded		Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett (1868-1930) British industrialist and politician		Tuke, Henry Scott (1858-1929) artist. Ruby, gold and malachite, 1902
Giacomo Puccini (1858 -1924) Italian composer of operas. Poster for Madama Butterfly		Benito Mussolini speaking, 1911		Battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815. Wellington with his Staff doffing his hat (to Blucherja)		Bette Davis (1908-1989) as an infatuated 'flapper' in The Rich Are Always With Us		Anglo-Saxon map of 900s showing a flat earth and the ocean that was thought to surround
Edward The Confessor (c1003-66) Anglo-Saxon king of England from 1042		Portuguese map of 1558 by Bastian Lopez showing Europe, British Isles and part of Africa		President Michael Gorbachev of USSR, In 1991		Egon Krenz (1937-) former Communist East German politician. General Secretary of		Portrait of Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)
Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Abu Musa (c721-c815 - Al Jabir: Geber) Arab alchemist. Court physician		Napoleon and his staff watching the burning of Moscow, 1812		of Fortune - Noblet Tarot, 1d Prince Albert riding in Windsor Park when young		Mummy wrapped in bandages and lying on base of coffin. Cairo Museum. Egypt		Portrait photographer's studio: Taken photograph using natural light only
Publicity still for the Hollywood film Some Like It Hot (1959): Director and Producer		British in India. Colonel Mordaunt watching a cock fight at Lucknow		Remains of an Ancient Roman paved street. Photograph		Gleaners at Sunset (1889). Artist, Leon Autustin L'Hermitte (1844-1925)		Frederick I (Barbarossa) c1123-1190 Holy Roman emperor from 1152. Death of Barbarossa
The Falconer. Woodcut from George Turbevile or Turbeville Book of Faulconrie 1611		Phoenecian gold jewellery. 5th century BC		Australian natives preparing meal from animal they have hunted. Man on left makes		Romans in battle against the Barbarians. Scene from sarcophagus of a general of Roman		Catacomb of the Capuchin (Franciscan) convent, Palermo, with remains of departed Friars
Leopold II (1835-1909) King of Belgium from 1865. Portrait by Pierre Tossyn		Olympias (d316 BC) queen of Macedon, wife of Philip II, mother of Alexander the Great		Woman in birthing chair: various medical instruments on right. Limestone relief Kawm Umbu		Pre-Columbian: Columbia, Quimbaya. Seated figure, 14-15th century, gold		Roasting copper in a furnace: C. A: cakes of smelted copper, B: wooden faggots for heat
Hernando Cortes (Cortez - 1485-1547) Spanish conquistador, Cortes and his men after		Rock Salt: Marston Salt Mine, Northwich, Cheshire, England, showing how pillars of		Book of the Dead, Ptolemaic period 332-30 BC: Thoth, Ibis-headed god, secretary to		'The Tilt Forge'. Artist, Godfrey Symes (1825-1866), Sheffield Museum, England		Dmitiri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907), Russian chemist. Working at his desk
Torturing a prisoner on the rack in sixteenth century England. Engrav ing c1890		Federal German Republic becomes 53rd member of the IMF (International Monetary Fund)		Darius I (548-486 BC) Achaemenid king of Persia from 521, with attendants		Edward Paget (1775-1849) British general, second in command to Wellington 1811, captured		Chinese domestic scene. Women and child in room overlooking courtyard garden
Treasure of Tutankhamun (dc1340 BC): Pectoral jewel of gold, semi-precious stone		Vesuvius during one of its early 19th century eruptions. People are standing inside		Jesus with the Little Children'. Artist, Vincent Sellaer (c1500-1589)		Angel carrying cross. From bridge opposite Castel St Angelo, Rome, Italy		Istanbul/Constantinople: Caravels and galleys flying Turkish (crescent) and Hapsburg
View of Amsterdam from the sea. Artist, Pieter Van Den Velde (1634-1687) Oil on wood		Young men playing a form of tennis. Woodcut from Commenius Orbis sensualis pictura		Tarot card of The Fool - Jergot Tarot, 17th century. Tarot pack of 22 cards was used		Mounted Grand Plains Indian hunting Buffalo (North American Bison) with bow and arrow		Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Sacrifice of Iphigenia by her
Cross-staffs used for surveying: in this case for measuring the width of a river by		Tutankhamun (Tutankamen), king of Egypt, reigned 1361-1352 BC. 18th Dynasty. Gold		Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias Olbers (1758-1840), German astronomer and physician. (1864)		Book of the Dead on papyrus showing written hieroglyphs. Depiction of ploughing with		Funerary boat of painted wood. Length 8cm. Ancient Egypt Dynasty IX (2232-2140 BC)
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) English antarctic explorer. Postcard commemorating		Lieutenant-General Garnet Wolseley (later Viscount Wolseley) 1833-1913, directing		Map of east coast of North America from Labrador to Cape Florida and featuring mouth		Thomas More (1478-1535) English statesman, scholar and saint. Portrait by Hans Holbein		Sailors buying winds (tied in knots) from a magician. From Olaus Magnus Historia
Standard bearers, drummers and trumpeters of a Saracen army mounted on camels and horses		Romulus and Remus suckling from the she-wolf. Detail from marble monument to the		Union Pacific Railroad: Wooden trestle bridge at Dale Creek		Sectional view of a mid-19th century steam railway locomotive showing firebox		Egyptian woman grinding corn using a saddle quern. Egyptian tomb figure c 2, 500 BC
Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) Portuguese prince, founder of school of navigation		Baptistry building, Florence, Italy, seen from above		Russians trimming Napoleon's beard, 1812. From a contemporary cartoon		Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937) in the laboratory. Discovered of nylon while working		Lead smelting. From Agricola De re metallica, Basel 1556. Woodcut
World map of route taken by Ferdinand Magellan (c1480-1521) when he led first		Construction train on the Union Pacific Railroad, 1868. Photograph		Tarot card. The Juggler or Mountebank. Parisian Tarot 1500. Tarot pack of 22 cards		The Land of Promise'. Newly arrived immigrants to the United States waiting to		Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1911) Irish-born British soldier and statesman. Lost
The Printer's Workshop. Woodcut by Jost Amman from Hartmann Schopper Panoplia		Battle of Lepanto, October 1571. Fleets of Spain, Venice and the Pope, under command		Charles Martel, the Hammer (c688-741), founder of the Carolingian dynasty and grandfather		' The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' 1919. German silent film. Director: Robert Wiene
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