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Christopher Columbus landing in America, 1492, (c1920)
 
Artist's impression of Yorimoto, 12th century Japanese warrior, 20th century
 
Oleograph of a Sioux war dance, c1890
 
Alaric I king of Visigoths entering Athens, (395) c1920
 
Death of Joseph Chief of the Nez-Perce, (1877) 1904
 
Upper tiers of The Colosseum, Rome
 
Map of Palestine based on ancient authors, c1830
 
Map of Canaan divided into the twelve tribes of Israel, c1830
 
Irish peasant girl guarding the family's last few possessions, 1886
 
Evicted Irish peasant family, 1848
 
Evicted Irish peasant family, 1848
 
Aftermath of famine, Ireland (1840s), 1886
 
Duke and Duchess of Windsor, c1938
 
The marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson, 1937
 
Title page of Luther's translation of the Old Testament, 1534
 
Irish Potato Famine, 1842
 
Fire engine, from Georg Andreas Bockler's Theatrum Machinarum Novum, 1673. Artist: Georg Andreas Bockler
 
Fire engine, from Isaac de Caus Nouvelle Invention de Lever l'Eau Plus Hault, 1664. Artist: Isaac de Caus
 
Mendeleyev's first Periodic Table of Elements, 1869. Artist: Dmitri Mendeleev
 
Galileo's observation of sunspots, 1613. Artist: Galileo Galilei
 
Galileo's observation of sunspots, 1613. Artist: Galileo Galilei
 
Wilbur Wright's first flight in Europe at the Hanaudieres racetrack near Le Mans, France, 1908
 
Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French aviator, flying over the cliffs at Dover, 1909
 
Wright Brothers biplane Flier 1910
 
Henson and Stringfellow's 1843 design for steam-powered flying machine, 1843
 
First ascent of Mongolfier hot air balloon, 21 November 1783
 
Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first powered flight, North Carolina, December 17 1903
 
American Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
 
Onondaga village attacked by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, 1615
 
Desiderus Erasmus using writing slope (1465-1536), Dutch humanist and scholar
 
Hamlet seeing his father's ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. Artist: Robert Dudley
 
Dr Faustus (1488-1541) conjuring up Mephistopheles
 
Iron bridge across the Severn at Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, England, built 1779
 
Iron bridge across the Severn at Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, England, built 1779 (1795). Artist: Samuel Ireland
 
Iron bridge across the Severn at Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, England, built 1779 (1809)
 
Waldensian youth hiding his vernacular Bible c1200 (19th century)
 
Waldenses missionary/troubador showing his vernacular Bible, c1170
 
Lucrezia Castellani before Inquisitors after banned Waldenses service, c1476 (19th century)
 
Persecution of Waldenses by Roman church, c1476 (19th century)
 
Pope Leo XIII receiving the last rites on his deathbed, 1903
 
US Astronaut Edward H. White II carrying out external tasks
 
The two crews of the joint US/USSR ASTP docking in Earth orbit mission
 
US Astronaut Bruce McCandless spacewalking, 1984
 
Medal showing Henry Hudson ascending the Hudson River to Albany in 1609
 
Henry Hudson, English navigator, being set adrift by mutinous crew, c1880
 
Relief showing scene from a sutra, Barabudur, Java, c750-850
 
Peter the Hermit presenting Urban II with petition on return from pilgrimage to Holy Land 1094
 
Russian Orthodox priests performing ceremony of naming the yacht of Grand Duke Alexis, 1891
 
Baptism of the Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Nicholas II of Russia, 1897
 
William Parker (Lord Monteagle), receiving letter of warning of the plot, 1605
 
Arrest of Guy Fawkes in cellars of Parliament, 1605 (19th century)
 
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605
 
Opening of the International Exhibition, 1862
 
Interior of the Crystal Palace during the International Exhibition, 1862
 
Huntingdon County Gaol and House of Correction, England, built c1828
 
Treadmill at Brixton prison, London, 1827. Artist: Rudolph Ackermann
 
Calvin, Luther and the Pope fighting each other, published 1600
 
St Brandan hown on his 7-year voyage to find Isle of St Brandon of Land of Saints
 
Water Baby being examined by Richard Owen and T.H. Huxley. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
 
William Penn with Native Americans, English Quaker colonist, 1830