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RM2JHG8HY–Irish girl and child (1855) by William Gillard (1812-1897), born in Bristol to a well-known family of stonemasons. Apprenticed for six years to a Bristol carver and gilder, at 18 he had already exhibited a painting in Ireland, a country he fell in love with and where he would spend long periods working.
RM2JHG8AT–An Irish picnic by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, like other caricaturists of his age, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy.
RM2JHG83X–Study of Two Carts in an Irish Landscape by Cornelius Varley, (1781-1873), an English water-colour painter and optical instrument-maker. He invented the graphic telescope and the graphic microscope.
RM2JGAE85–A portrait of Éamon de Valera (1882-1975), a commandant at Boland's Mill during the 1916 Easter Rising, he was arrested and sentenced to death but released for a variety of reasons, including the public response to the British execution of Rising leaders. He returned to Ireland after being jailed in England and became one of the leading political figures of the War of Independence. Later he became a prominent statesman and political leader serving several terms as head of government and head of state. He had a leading role in introducing the 1937 Constitution of Ireland.
RM2JFH254–An incomplete sketch of an Irish fisherman by the American Artist, John Wesley Jarvis (1781-1840)
RM2JGAEDB–A self portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist, born in Dublin, but moved to London in 1876. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902) and Pygmalion (1913), Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
RM2JFH1PB–A painting by the English artist Paul Sandby (1731-1809) of Askeaton Abbey or Askeaton Friary, located on the east bank of the River Deel, County Limerick, Ireland. A former Franciscan monastery it was plundered and later abandoned during the Second Desmond Rebellion of 1579. Revived in 1627 it was again abandoned in 1648 when Cromwell’s forces neared. It was reestablished in 1658 and continued to house friars until 1714.
RM2JHG8MM–Detail from the book caricatures of English society by George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier, a Franco-British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch.He was the father of actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier.
RM2J9W820–An illustration of a woman on a bicycle with a Cycle Manual in her hand. The image by Joseph J Gould (1880-1935) is a detail from a poster for Lippincott's, an American monthly literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915.
RM2J75GR9–Two soldiers on a dawn raid with rifles and fixed bayonets. Silhouetted against a reddening sky, they climb a hill on the frontline during World War One, 1914-1918.
RM2HXE0DN–Cyripedium schroederae aka lady's slipper orchid, widespread across much of the Northern Hemisphere, including most of Europe , Russia, China, Central Asia, Canada the United States, Mexico, and Central America. From Iconographie des Orchidees, a magazine of botanical illustrations published by Jean Jules Linden (1817-1898) was a Belgian botanist, explorer and horticulturist who specialised in orchids.
RM2HXE0JY–Selenipedium reticulatum aka Phragmipedium boissierianuman an orchid native to Ecuador and Peru. From Iconographie des Orchidees, a magazine of botanical illustrations published by Jean Jules Linden (1817-1898) was a Belgian botanist, explorer and horticulturist who specialised in orchids.
RM2HJFJWA–A vintage group photograph of girls in the gymanium of the Ursuline Convent in Waterford, Ireland in 1908. The school opened in 1816 at the foundation house of the Ursuline Convent, Waterford. During the following months, a more suitable dwelling was found at Newgrove, Newtown, shortly after the small community with thirty boarders arrived to settle permanently at Elysium. A large coach house at the end of the Elysium garden provided accommodation for the teaching of the poor children in the area.
RM2HJFJ64–A vintage photograph of Michael Collins (1890-1922), Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence speaking in Armagh in 1921. He was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922, and commander-in-chief of the National Army from July until his death in an ambush in August 1922, during the Civil War.
RM2HJFJJG–A vintage photograph of a traditional Butcher's shop with staff and pig carcases in Broad Street, Waterford, Ireland, 1916.
RM2HGH3A5–The Spanish Armada, a Habsburg Spanish fleet of 130 ships sailed from Lisbon in 1588 with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England and overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and her establishment of Protestantism in England; to stop English interference in the Spanish Netherlands; and end English and Dutch privateering ships disrupting Spanish interests in the Americas. English warships were faster and more manoeuvrable than the larger Spanish galleons, enabling them to fire on the Armada without loss and bad weather finished off the job.
RM2HE2FJF–Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831-1896) was the Shah of Qajar Iran aka Qajar Persia from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek Jahān Khānom and the third longest reigning monarch in Iranian history after Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty and Tahmasp I of the Safavid Dynasty. Nasser al-Din Shah had sovereign power for close to 50 years. He was the first modern Persian monarch who formally visited Europe and also wrote his memoirs.
RM2GWD91N–Early 20th Century sheet music for 'My Irish Rosie'. Sang by Hattie Williams; Lyrics by Wm Jerome; Music by Jean Schwartz; Published by Jerome H Remick, Chicago, USA
RM2GWCK87–Ortelius Improved, or a new map of Ireland: Wherein are inserted the principal families of Irish and English extraction who possessed the kingdom on the commencement of the seventeenth century. Created by engraver S. Thompson, in Dublin, circa 1795.
RM2GHCFT8–An early 19th century view of Killiney Hill and Bay in the affluent seaside resort in County Dublin, Ireland. It became a popular resort in the 19th century, especially after it was compared to the Bay of Naples in Italy; a comparison reflected in the names of surrounding roads, like Vico, Sorrento, Monte Alverno, San Elmo and Capri.
RM2GF08JY–Horses, carts and local people in profusion at a vegetable market next to the bridge over the River Shannon, in Athlone, a town on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, Ireland.
RM2FNWFPT–A late 19th Century view of the massed sails of the fishing fleet, tied up to the fish quay constructed in 1870 to provide shelter for the docked fishing boats in Also pictured is the Low Light beacon remodelled in 1830 to serve as an almshouse.
RM2FBDHFJ–John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher dreaming about the pilgrim and the struggle between good and evil as written about in his book The Pilgrim's Progress. The religious tolerance which had allowed Bunyan the freedom to preach became curtailed with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and he wrote the book while in prison.
RM2FBDAG0–A meeting of Quakers, also called The Religious Society of Friends, belong to a historically Christian (Protestant). Members of the various Quaker movements are generally united by a belief in the ability of each human being to experience and access the light within or to see 'that of God in every one'. Their theological beliefs vary considerably and tolerance of dissent widely varies.
RM2FBDKY1–A scene from the Great Fire of London, a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September 1666.The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. It destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities.
RM2FBE2FK–The early Watt steam engine was one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. James Watt developed the design sporadically from 1763 to 1775 with support from Matthew Boulton. Watt's design saved so much more fuel compared with earlier designs that they were licensed based on the amount of fuel they would save. Watt never ceased developing the steam engine and his designs became synonymous with steam engines, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt design.
RM2FBDXJ1–A portrait by John Closterman of Queen Anne (1665-1714), monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 8 March 1702 and 1 May 1707. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1714.
RM2F8GK3J–A triple portrait of Charles I (1600-1649). Born into the House of Stuart, he was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England.
RM2F8GCG4–A page from the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, England. The manuscript is one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, combining Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements. The book is associated with the Cult of St. Cuthbert, an ascetic member of the monastic community in Lindisfarne, before his death in 687. The book was made as part of the preparations to translate Cuthbert's relics to a shrine in 698.
RM2F7R0DK–A painting by Valentín de Zubiaurre (1879-1963), of Basque people inspired by the 'Bersolaris', poets. Zubiaurre was a Spanish painter, born deaf and mute.
RM2F7R0F5–A portrait of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873), a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where she started writing as La Peregrina (The Pilgrim), she was a prolific writer and wrote 20 plays and numerous poems. Her most famous work, however, is the antislavery novel Sab, published in Madrid in 1841. The artist is Federico de Madrazo (1815-1894) a Spanish painter.
RM2EWR8YK–Geoffrey is knocked overboard during the Spanish Armada: from 'By England's Aid' by G.A.Henty. An early adventure story in which Geoffrey and Lionel Vickars, two brothers from Hedingham in Essex, England follow Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609), an English soldier, famed for his successful military career to the Netherlands. It takes place during the conflict between Spain and the Netherlands that merged in the general European War that became known as the Thirty Years' War leading to the Spanish Armada of 1588.
RM2E2GD1T–A painting by Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893) of extra-ordinary topiary in the the garden of Levens Hall, a manor house in the Kent valley, near Kendal in Cumbria, Northern England. Morris was an Irish clergyman, notable as 'parson-naturalist' and as the author of many children's books and books on natural history and heritage buildings.
RM2DGBN1N–An illustration for 'The Ballad of Chevy Chase' that recites the story of a large hunting party on hunting land (or chase) in the Cheviot Hills, Northumberland, on the English-Scottish border. The hunt led by Percy, the English Earl of Northumberland, had been forbidden by the Scottish Earl Douglas who interpreted it as an invasion of Scotland. In response he attacked, causing a bloody battle after which only 110 people survived. The genesis of the ballad is unknown, but may have its roots in the Battle of Otterburn of 1388.
RM2DCH57F–Plucking the Red and White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens depicts the fictional scene by Shakespeare, of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset being challenged by Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York to choose between the White Rose of York and the Red Rose of Lancaster.
RM2DAADB2–Space between paragraphs in a section break is sometimes accompanied by ornamental symbols. Such a typographic device can be specifically referred to as dinkus, space break symbol, paragraph separator, paragraph divider, horizontal divider, thought break, or as an instance of filigree or flourish. Ornamental section breaks can be created using glyphs, rows of lozenges, dingbats, or other miscellaneous symbols.
RM2DA6YCD–An ornately decorated letter used as an initial or drop cap at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts, sometimes ornately decorated.
RM2DA6YHJ–An ornately decorated letter used as an initial or drop cap at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts, sometimes ornately decorated.
RM2DAADBC–Space between paragraphs in a section break is sometimes accompanied by ornamental symbols. Such a typographic device can be specifically referred to as dinkus, space break symbol, paragraph separator, paragraph divider, horizontal divider, thought break, or as an instance of filigree or flourish. Ornamental section breaks can be created using glyphs, rows of lozenges, dingbats, or other miscellaneous symbols.
RM2DAADB8–Space between paragraphs in a section break is sometimes accompanied by ornamental symbols. Such a typographic device can be specifically referred to as dinkus, space break symbol, paragraph separator, paragraph divider, horizontal divider, thought break, or as an instance of filigree or flourish. Ornamental section breaks can be created using glyphs, rows of lozenges, dingbats, or other miscellaneous symbols.
RM2DA6YE2–An ornately decorated letter used as an initial or drop cap at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts, sometimes ornately decorated.
RM2CGCJWM–A newpaper cutting showing a Bristol Blenheim, Type 142. The aircraft was developed as a civil airliner, in response to a challenge from Lord Rothermere to produce the fastest commercial aircraft in Europe. In 1935, flight tests proved that the aircraft with a top speed of 307 mph was faster than any fighter in service with the Royal Air Force at the time. Converted into a light bomber, the Bristol Blenheim was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War.
RM2CDPW7Y–The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft with distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Along with its use as a general fighter, the P-38 served in various aerial combat roles, night fighter, long-range escort fighter (with drop tanks), pathfinder, and as a fighter-bomber during the invasion of Normandy and the Allied advance across France into Germany. It was also used in the aerial reconnaissance role, the P-38 accounted for 90 percent of the aerial film captured over Europe.
RM2CDPTWT–A 4,000 pound blast bomb being fitted to a Lancaster. Also called the blockbuster bomb, a term originally coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire street or large building through the effects of blast in conjunction with incendiary bombs.
RM2CCB783–Following the death of King George V on 20th January, the cortege enters St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 28 January 1936
RM2CCB6YY–On 11th May 1935, King George V and Queen Mary continue their Silver Jubilee celebration of 25 years on the throne with a visit to Cardiff, Wales.
RM2CB7B58–Helleborus niger, aka Christmas rose is an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the family, Ranunculaceae with a Peacock Butterfly, Aglais io. Painted by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), a German botanist and entomologist known for his botanical illustrations who became one of the most influential European botanical artists of all time. His first illustrations were in collaboration with Carl Linnaeus and George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Dutch banker and governor of the Dutch East India Company was a keen botanist with a large herbarium.
RM2CB7AKR–'De Vroege Visco Roy' tulip painted by Judith Jans Leyster (1609-1660) was a Dutch painter during Tulip mania in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed. 'Broken' tulips have a viral infection, that caused the petals to show beautiful and striking streaks of color in them, noticed by the Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius, father of the Dutch obsession with tulips, in the Netherlands in the 1600’s.
RM2CB78WB–Fritillaria meleagris AKA snake's head fritillary, and many orther local names, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), a painter and botanist from Belgium. A flowering plant in the family Liliaceae it is native to the flood river plains of Europe where it grows in abundance.
RM2CBAN9H–'Schoon Solffer' a broken' tulip painted by Bartholomeus Abrahamsz. Assteyn (1607-1669/1677), a Dutch painter. 'Broken' tulips have a viral infection, that caused the petals to show beautiful and striking streaks of color in them, noticed by the Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius, father of the Dutch obsession with tulips, in the Netherlands in the 1600’s.
RM2CB7B0N–An American Turk's Cap Lily, Lilium superbum, painted by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), a German botanist and entomologist known for his botanical illustrations who became one of the most influential European botanical artists of all time. His first illustrations were in collaboration with Carl Linnaeus and George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Dutch banker and governor of the Dutch East India Company was a keen botanist with a large herbarium.
RM2C98D9N–An Italian tank crew of the Axis forces surrenders to troops of the Eighth Army during the Second Battle of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War (23 October – 11 November 1942), Egypt.
RM2C98E83–American GIs struggle on to Utah Beach, code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), during World War II.
RM2C98DTC–The carrier 'Hornet' under attack from Japanese dive bombers during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, fought during 25–27 October 1942. It was fourth major naval engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy of the Pacific campaign of World War II. One in which the ships of the two adversaries were rarely in sight or gun range of each other. Instead, almost all attacks by both sides were mounted by carrier or land-based aircraft.
RM2C7GRE8–German parachutists drop on the Central Front as part of the German strategic offensive, named Operation Typhoon, during the Battle of Moscow that took place between October 1941 and January 1942.
RM2C2X8R1–In early 1920's, birdcages were often hung outside houses in Cobh in County Cork, Ireland. Originally photographed by Clifton Adams (1890-1934) for 'Ireland: The Rock Whence I Was Hewn', a National Geographic Magazine feature from March 1927.
RM2BX9N34–A British patrol cross a paddy field as a a Burmese villager and oxen prepares for the next harvest. Launched during April and May 1945, Operation Dracula was a World War II-airborne and amphibious attack on Rangoon by British, American and Indian forces during the Burma Campaign.
RM2BX9JX5–US General Mark Clark in conversation with a priest in front of St Peter's Cathedral following the battle for Rome of the Italian Campaign of World War II in May 1944.
RM2BWB71C–Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Hermann Göring in conversation with staff officers during the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe was officially created on 26 February 1935, with Göring as its commander-in-chief, who thought the RAF could be eliminated prior to the proposed invasion (Operation Sealion). He had been a celebrated First World War fighter pilot and was one of Hitler’s closest political associates.
RM2BP3K2D–An illustration to 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe, created by Gustave Doré (1832-1883), a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving. Greatly in demand, he also illustrated works by Byron, Cervantes, Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, Dante and the Bible.
RM2BP3PCY–The poster for the first 'Salon Rose+Croix' by Carlos Schwabe (1866-1926), a Swiss Symbolist painter is an important symbolic work of the idealist new art. After studying art in Geneva, Schwabe relocated to Paris becoming one of the most important symbolist book illustrators.
RM2BP3NCW–'Melancholia' by Paul Sérusier (1864-1927), a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, and part of the group of painters called Les Nabis that included Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard, and Édouard Vuillard.
RM2BP3F8P–'The Dead Poet Borne by a Centaur', by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), a major figure in the French Symbolist movement, whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. During his lifetime, Moreau produced more than 8,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings influencing the next generation of Symbolists, particularly Odilon Redon and Jean Delville.
RM2BKR7RB–A portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), the British political activist best remembered for organizing the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the right to vote. Painting by Georgina Agnes Brackenbury (1865–1949), a British painter who was known as a militant suffragette and jailed for demonstrating for women's rights.
RM2BKRFG1–The costume design for the Ballet Russe production of Daphnis and Chloe, by Maurice Ravel described as a 'symphonie chorégraphique', performed at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France in 1912. The ballerina's costume was designed by Léon Bakst (1866-1924), a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Belarusian origin.
RM2BKR420–A portrait of Thomas Hardy; (1840-1928); an English novelist and poet influenced by Romanticism; especially William Wordsworth and also by Charles Dickens. Portrait by Reginald Grenville Eves; (1876–1941); a British painter who made portraits of many prominent military; political and cultural figures between the two world wars.
RM2BHTR3Y–A traditional peasant farmhouse, in which a woman is playing the Kantele a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument whilst others listen, Finland. painted by Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1808-1873), a.k.a. R. W. Ekman, painter of the Finnish romantic portraits and early national romanticism.
RM2BHTPHA–Charging on the steeds, a trio of Valkyries, Scandinavian goddesses who were sent by Odin to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla. These foreboders of war rode to the battlefield on horses, wearing helmets and shields; in some accounts, they flew through the air and sea. (Artist Unknown)
RM2BHW17A–Night time view of exotic illuminated Palace of Electricity, in L'Exposition de Paris aka the Paris Expo 1900. Painting by Ewald Thiel (1855-1939, a German painter and illustrator.
RM2BFP5X5–A cartoon of Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), who following the defeat of France in the Franco-German War, was elected chief executive of the new French government and negotiated the end of the war. When the Paris Commune seized power in March 1871, Thiers gave the orders to the army for its suppression. At the age of seventy-four, he was named President of the Republic by the French National Assembly in August 1871. His chief accomplishment as president was to achieve the departure of German soldiers from most of French territory two years ahead of schedule.
RM2BFP2GA–A spinning room, a village meeting point where conversation, gossip and even romance flourished, to the disapproval of the authorities. The Black Forest, .Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany (artist unknown)
RM2BD2F66–'The Idol of Perversity', perhaps a modern take on Medusa by Jean Delville (1867-1953), a Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and Theosophist. The leading exponent of the Belgian Idealist movement in art during the 1890s he held the belief that art should be the expression of a higher spiritual truth and that it should be based on the principle of Ideal, or spiritual Beauty.
RM2BD2FM5–'Day Dream' by Jeanne Jacquemin, aka Marie-Jeanne Boyer (1861-1938), a French artist associated with the Symbolist movement. Her work, like that of her Symbolist contemporaries, addresses mysticism, dream states, nature, and la douleur, or pain.
RM2BE3WMN–In the 19th Century Paris of ordinary people, a roadside coffee seller gossips with her neighbour watched by a young boy and dog.
RM2B7NCA1–British stretcher bearers giving aid to a wounded soldier during the Battle of the Somme also known as the Somme Offensive, that took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme in France.
RM2B7NFGR–Artillery men hauling an 19 pounder field gun out of the mud during the Third Battle of Ypres aka the Battle of Passchendaele, a campaign of the First World War, that took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders.
RM2B5K0H7–The massive British 60 pounder gun needed 12 horses and troops to move it to Bazentin le Petit during the Battle of the Somme in August 1916.
RM2B5K1DK–Helped by colleagues, a wounded soldier is brought for medical attention during the Battle of the Ancre (13–18 November 1916). The battle, the final large British attack of the Battle of the Somme was fought between the Fifth Army of Lieutenant-General Hubert Gough) against the German 1st Army (General Fritz von Below).
RM2B3RKBW–Rifle drill for recruits to the Lincolnshire Regiment shortly after war broke out, September 1914. Uniforms and weapons at the time were in scarce supply.
RM2B3RGJT–British soldiers of the Second Battalion Scots Guards repairing sandbags during the winter of 1915 of the First World War in the trenches at Levantine Sector in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
RM2BD2D2X–The Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Isis at Philae, on a small island in the Nile south of Aswan, Egypt. The temple is relatively new by Egyptian standards, begun under one of the last of the native pharoahs, Nectanebo I (c380-62 BC) but mostly dating to the Ptolemaic period. Painting by David Roberts (1796-1864)
RM2AX205R–Members of the first Dail in 1919, with Michael Collins (second left front) and Eamon de Valera (fifth left front). This Dáil was an assembly established by Sinn Féin MPs elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 1918 general election. Upon winning a majority of Irish seats in the election, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise British parliament and instead convened as the First Dáil Éireann (translated as 'Assembly of Ireland'): the first Irish parliament to exist since 1801. The first meeting occurred in Dublin on 21 January 1919, in the Mansion House.
RM2AX22JJ–During the Civil War, Michael Collins as Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, a formal uniformed army that formed around the pro-Treaty IRA and attempted to take republican held areas. On driving from Bandon to Cork City, in August 1922, Collins was killed in an ambush by the Anti-Treaty IRA. Collins' body was shipped to Dublin where he lay in state for three days in Dublin City Hall where tens of thousands of mourners walked past his coffin to pay their respects.
RM2AX220P–Treaty talks in the cabinet room of No 10 Downing Street in London in 1921. On the left is the British team including Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. To the right are heads of the Irish delegation, Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, who greatly impressed the British representatives. With regard to the Treaty, he himself was fully committed to and satisfied with it and genuinely convinced that its terms were the best that Ireland could realistically have hoped to achieve. He bitterly resented the opposition to it from republican purists – especially de Valera.
RM2AW4FH3–RAF ground crew loading an Avro Lancaster, British Second World War heavy bomber, of 467 (RAAF) Squadron I with 4,000 pound and 500 pound medium capacity bombs. The aircraft's long, unobstructed bomb bay meant that the Lancaster could take the largest bombs used by the RAF, including the 4,000 lb (1,800 kg), 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) and 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) blockbusters, loads often supplemented with smaller bombs or incendiaries. The 'Lanc', as it was known colloquially, became one of the most heavily used of the Second World War night bombers.
RM2ARWGP5–Cragside, near Rothbury in Northumberland, England, the home of William George Armstrong (1810- 1900) owner of the Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick works on Tyneside. The estate of 1,729 acres had five artificial lakes used to generate hydro-electricity, and the house was the first in the world to be lit by hydro-electricity, using incandescent lamps provided by the inventor Joseph Swan.
RM2APR654–'The shipyard, Rye', a painting by Albert Goodwin RWS (1845–1932), British landscapist specialising in watercolours. He was a prolific artist, producing a wide variety of landscape subjects reflected his love of travel. Rye is a small town in the Rother district, in East Sussex, England with a historical association with the sea that has included providing ships for the service of the Crown in time of war.
RM2APR5H2–'End of the Day', an English shepherd and flock on a farm track by George Faulkner Wetherbee (1851–1920), an American painter who lived most of his life in England after living in various countries on the continent of Europe. He achieved success in his 40s, with recognition by the distinguished London art societies, and his mastery of colour and light were highly acclaimed. He made several commercial rural scenes in the 1890s, immediately after his success.
RM2APR4E3–'My Cottage', a snow covered English lane by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), who worked in France until 1890 after which he was based in Britain. Printmaker, wood engraver,designer, printer of fine books and landscape painter Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist techniques.
RM2AMHM3B–A medieval legend tells of dragons with healing powers living on Mount Pilatus, a mountain massif overlooking Lucerne in Central Switzerland. A chronicle from 1619 reads: 'as I was contemplating the serene sky by night, I saw a very bright dragon with flapping wings go from a cave in a great rock in the mount called Pilatus toward another cave, known as Flue, on the opposite side of the lake'.
RM2AMHBC6–Volcanic activity around El Jorullo, a cinder cone volcano in Michoacán, central Mexico, on the southwest slope of the central plateau in an area known as the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field. The lava from the vents of El Jorullo cover nine square km around the volcano. Later eruptions produced lavas that had higher silica contents making them thicker than the earlier basalts and basaltic andesite lavas.
RM2AMHE9Y–The hexagonally jointed basalt columns, (similar in structure to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland) at Fingal's Cave, a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Formed by the cooling action on the upper and lower surfaces of the solidified lava resulted in contraction and fracturing, transitioning to a regular hexagonal fracture pattern with fractures perpendicular to the cooling surfaces. As cooling continued these cracks gradually extended toward the centre of the flow, forming the long hexagonal columns seen today.
RM2AMHKT8–Astronomy: An aurora, sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis), or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions around the Arctic and Antarctic. They are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind. These disturbances are sometimes strong enough to alter the trajectories of charged particles and the resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying color and complexity.
RM2AHTKA1–Jean-Étienne Guettard's (1715-1786), French naturalist and mineralogist experiment into plant transpiration. As a boy, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, then studied botany and the relation between the distribution of plants and the soils and subsoils. Plant transpiration; the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.
RM2AGT6YE–The Egyptian slit-faced bat (Nycteris thebaica) in the Upper Nile region of Egypt. They form roosting colonies numbering from a few to thousands and because they can maneuver in crowded habitats, they are able to occupy caves and holes that cannot be accessed by other bat species. They occupy two roosts, using the daytime roost to rest, while only spending a few hours in the night roost before going out to forage for several hours.
RM2AGJ24A–Ornithology: Breeding and Nests: A pair of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) which inhabits the Andean mountains, the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. Its nest, which consists of a few sticks placed around the eggs, is created on inaccessible ledges of rock. However, in coastal areas of Peru, where there are few cliffs, some nests are simply partially shaded crannies scraped out against boulders on slopes.
RM2AGJ5FC–Ornithology: Breeding and Nests: The nest of the American flamingo, aka Red Flamingo, (Phoenicopterus ruber), the only flamingo that naturally inhabits North America. Like all flamingos, it lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound, between May and August; incubation until hatching takes from 28 to 32 days; both parents brood the young for a period up to 6 years when they reach sexual maturity.
RM2AJ9P3W–Victoria Falls is a waterfall in Southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view Victoria Falls on 16 November 1855, from what is now known as Livingstone Island, one of two land masses in the middle of the river, immediately upstream from the falls near the Zambian shore. Livingstone named his sighting in honour of Queen Victoria of Britain, but the indigenous Lozi language name, Mosi-oa-Tunya—'The Smoke That Thunders'—continues in common usage as well.
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