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19th Century Chart of Principal Ports and Places Distances from Washington DC

19th Century Chart of Principal Ports and Places Distances from Washington DC

'Exhibiting at one view the names of about thirteen hundred of the principal ports and places in the world, with their bearings per compass, and their distances expressed in geographical miles from the city of Washington' ...
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They Dug Up Lord Byron’s Body in 1938 and Were Shocked by The Size of His Dick

They Dug Up Lord Byron’s Body in 1938 and Were Shocked by The Size of His Dick

At four o'clock on the afternoon of 15th June 1938, the doors to St. Mary Magdalene were locked. Inside, around forty people waited expectantly for the opening of the Byron vault. ...
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London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

On the evening of 27 September, 1940, Germany bombed London's Holland House. But they missed the books ...
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Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women

Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women

Julia Margaret Cameron's lavish soft-focus portraits are all the better for their flaws ...
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Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Highlights from Yaggy's Geographical Portfolio - 'Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography' ...
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40 Great Portraits of Wales and The Welsh 1865-1885

40 Great Portraits of Wales and The Welsh 1865-1885

John Thomas toured Wales taking photographs of the country and its people ...
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Remarkable Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown At The End Of The 19th Century

Remarkable Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown At The End Of The 19th Century

Around 1900, Berlin-born naturalised American Arnold Genthe took (often covert) pictures of street life in San Francisco's Chinatown. ...
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Take an 1890 Photochrom Tour of Rome

Take an 1890 Photochrom Tour of Rome

“Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” – George Eliot ...
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41 Fabulous Old Photographs of Ancient Rune Stones in Sweden

41 Fabulous Old Photographs of Ancient Rune Stones in Sweden

There are more than 4,000 runic inscriptions in Sweden, dated from the 3d century up to modern time. ...
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27 Victorian Era Vinegar Valentines

27 Victorian Era Vinegar Valentines

“’Tis all in vain your simpering looks, You never can incline, With all your bustles, stays and curls, To find a Valentine.” ...
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Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Tommy Titop is, to quote Stephen Ellcock, a ‘little thug who drowns kittens, pesters puppies and decimates the lesser creation; he gets his comeuppance in a series of dreams in which the roles of tormentor and tormented are reversed as in The World Upside Down.’ Tommy is the star or The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop, Published by Myra & Son, London, 1893. ...
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Goethe : Illustrating The Abstract Psychology of Color and Emotion

Goethe : Illustrating The Abstract Psychology of Color and Emotion

"Colors are light’s suffering and joy" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
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