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Plan of Breda, from Atlas van Loon

Articles begun (history):

• Ictis
• Hattusa Green Stone
• Motilla del Azuer
• Battle of Hehil
• Buzay Abbey
• Villeneuve Abbey
• Amesbury Abbey
• Dudum siquidem
• Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535
• Bigod's rebellion
• Army of the Holy Roman Empire
• English overseas possessions
• Secretary of State (England)
• Royal Indian Navy
• 1626 University of Cambridge Chancellor election

• Siege of Chester
• Useless Parliament
• Orange College of Breda
• Habeas Corpus Parliament
• Exclusion Bill Parliament
• Loyal Parliament
• Whiggism

• Indemnity Act 1717
• Atterbury Plot
• 1740 papal conclave
• Keith's Chapel
• Upingtonia
• Richmond Sixteen
• Laghouat prison camp
• Godesberg Memorandum
• Princely states of Pakistan
• Referendum Act 1975

books

• The Cambridge Modern History

historians

• Shallet Turner (c. 1692–1762)
• Horatio Brown (1854–1926)
• Leopold George Wickham Legg (1877—1962)
• John Robert Martindale (born 1935)
• Jane Ridley (born 1953)
• Julian Hoppit (born 1957)

templates created

Sir William Sharington, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Articles begun (people):

Ancient world

• Xenoclea (legendary)
• Mithrapata (fl. late 4th century BC)

Middle Ages

• Wendreda (7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th century)
• Thomas Fastolf (died 1361)

15th century births

• William Sharington (c. 1495–c. 1553)

16th century births

• Benedict Spinola (c. 1519–1580)
• Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton (1552–1607)

17th century births

• William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (1614–1643)
• William Hiseland (1620–1733)
• Christopher Codrington (c. 1639—1698)
• Johann Georg Seidenbusch (1641–1729)
• Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke (1653–1683)
• Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun (c. 1675—1731)

18th century births

• Joasaph of Belgorod (1705–1754)
• Barlow Trecothick (c. 1719–1775)
• Lewis Lochée (died 1791)
• John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart (1745–1814),
• Montague James Mathew (1773–1819)
• Charles Edward Stuart, Count Roehenstart (1784–1854)
• Mehrab Khan II of Kalat (died 1839)

19th century births

• Richard Wood (1806–1900)
• Nakayama Tadayasu (1809–1888)
• Talavera Vernon Anson (1809–1895)
• Oscar Clayton (1816–1892)
• Prince Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann (1826–1914)
• Doyne Bell (1830―1888)
• Herbert de Reuter (1852–1915)
• Frederick William Koko Mingi VIII of Nembe (1853–1898)
• Beatrice Holme Sumner (1862–1946)
• Alexander Vladimirovich Baryatinsky (1870–1910)
• Alfred von Oberndorff (1870–1963)
• Frank William North (1871–1925)
• Aubrey Smith (1872–1957)
• Lady Angela Forbes (1876–1950)
• Roderick Jones (1877–1962)
• Julian Wylie (1878–1934)
• Princess Catherine Yurievskaya (1878–1959)
• Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky (1882–1964)
• John Fergusson Roxburgh (1888–1954)
• Günther von Reibnitz (1894–1983)

20th century births

• Rudolf Rahn (1900–1975)
• Wilfrid Oldaker (1901–1978)
• Leopold von Mildenstein (1902–1968)
• Lady Pansy Lamb (1904–1999)
• Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1904–1988)
• Audrey Withers (1905–2001)
• Illtyd Trethowan (1907–1993)
• Robert Bolgar (1913–1985)
• Robin Fox (1913–1971)
• Athelstan Rendall (1914–2006)
• Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge (1919–2012)
• Edda Göring (1938–2019)
• Henrietta Garnett (1945–2019)
• Alexander Boot (born 1948)
• Lynne Isbell (born 1955)
• Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (born 1959)
• Bud Brigham (1960)

Moscow State Pedagogical University, foundation building on Malaya Pirogovskaya

Articles begun (schools and colleges):

England

• Royal Naval College, Greenwich
• Royal Naval College, Osborne
• Royal Military College, Sandhurst
• Army School of Equitation
• St Alban Hall, Oxford
• Charsley's Hall
• College of the Valley Scholars
• Bruce Castle School
• Southover Manor School
• Truro Cathedral School
• North Foreland Lodge
• Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School
• Wixenford School
• Greenways School
• St Christopher School
• Beaminster Grammar School
• Yeovil Grammar School
• Salisbury Grammar School
• Plymouth Grammar School
• Salford Grammar School
• St Andrew's School, Pangbourne

• Hurst Lodge School
• St Peter's Court
• Reigate St Mary's School
• Bentley's School, Calne

Ireland

• Midleton College

Scotland

• St Andrew's College, Drygrange
• Fordyce Academy

Overseas

• Orange College of Breda
• Romanian Pontifical College
• Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha
• High School of Montreal
• McCollom Institute
• Isabella Thoburn College
• Chand Bagh School
• Epsom College in Malaysia
• Moscow State Pedagogical University

Elections

• 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election

Ruins of Ludgershall Castle

Articles begun (buildings):

buildings

• Leicester House, Westminster
• Somerset House, Park Lane
• Titsey Place
• Plas Clough
• St Mary's Church, Twickenham
• Christ Church, Marylebone
• Nell Gwynn House
• Corse Castle
• Josselin Castle
• Palace of Justice, Rome
• Dafo Temple, Zhangye
• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows
• Pokrovsky Nunnery

architects

• Antonio Cano (1779–1840)
• James Edward Rogers (1838–1896)
• Edward Maxwell (1867–1923)
• David Robertson Brown (1869–1946)
• William Henry Ansell (1872–1959)
• Howard Robertson (1888–1963)
• Eugene De Rosa (1894– c. 1945)
• Patrick Garnett (1932–2006)
• Alan E. Munby (1870–1938)

architecture

• Hall house

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Caroline Maria Applebee, the Claude and Duke of Sutherland tulips

Articles begun (arts):

painters

• Claude Arnulphy (1697–1786)
• Peter Edward Stroehling (1768– c. 1826)
• Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1785–1854)
• Georg Decker (1818–1894)
• Franz Goedecker (c. 1840–1884)
• Jean Baptiste Guth (1855–1922)
• Joseph Benwell Clark (1857–1938)
• Arthur Thiele (1860–1936)
• Maria Louise Kirk (1860–1938)
• Harry B. Neilson (1861–1941)
• Stewart Orr (1872–1944)
• Ruth Doggett (1881–1974)
• Thérèse Geraldy (1884–1965)
• Luigi Corbellini (1901–1968)
• Inga Moore (born 1945)
• Hector McDonnell (born 1947)

sculptors

• Oskar Garvens (1874–1951)
• Althea Wynne (1936–2012)
• Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy (1869–1923)

photographers

• Ward Muir (1878–1927)

writers

• Georg Christian Lehms (1684–1717)
• Henry Koster (1793–1820)
• Mary Bathurst Deane (1843–1940)
• Mary Eliza Kennard (1850–1936)
• Jimmy Glover (1861–1931)
• Maud Churton Braby (1875–1932)
• Lemuel de Bra (1884–1954)
• Mairin Mitchell (1895–1986)
• William Fawcett (1902–1941)
• Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903–1979)
• Peter Padfield (born 1932)
• Perdita Buchan (born 1940)
• Christina Dodwell (born 1951)

books

• The Medical Directory (1845– )
• Life on the Lagoons (1884)
• Storm over Spain (1937)
• Scott-King's Modern Europe (1947)
• Floating Down to Camelot (1985)

periodicals

• Old English Newsletter
• Dublin Gazette
• The Gentlewoman

publishers

• George Robinson (1737–1801)
• Dun Emer Press (1902–1908)
• Right Book Club (1937–1950)

actors

• Mary Catherine Bolton (1791–1830)
• William Keasberry (1726–1797)
• Ada Dorée (1850–1916)
• Eric Thorne (1862–1922)
• Sydney Valentine (1865–1919)
• Harry Arthur Saintsbury (1869–1939)
• Leal Douglas (1881–1970)
• Alexandra Carlisle (1886–1936)
• Ida Adams (c. 1888–1960)
• Harry S. Pepper (1891–1970)
• Daisy Burrell (1892–1982)
• Jonathan Cecil (1939–2011)
• Amaryllis Garnett (1943–1973)

plays

• The Bird of Paradise (1912)

films

• A Choice of Kings (1966)
• Jude the Obscure (1971)
• The Rainbow (1988)
• Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992)
• Murder Between Friends (1994)
• The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
• Cider with Rosie (1998)
• Scooterman (2010)

musicals

• Little Nellie Kelly (1922)
• Gipsy Love (1910)

paintings

• Pelican Portrait

Skyscraper, foaled 1786

Articles begun (miscellaneous):

armed forces

• Queen's Regulations
• 71st Jaeger Brigade (Ukraine)

ships and boats

• HMS Seringapatam (1819)
• SS Dongola (1905)
• RMS Strathmore (1935)
• Sandolo

clubs

• House of Lords Yacht Club
• Kildare Street Club
• Daly's Club
• Hysteron Proteron Club

horses

• Alcock's Arabian
• Blucher (horse)
• Skyscraper (horse)

other animals

• Gray-bellied mountain rat
• Hedgehog flea

regions

• Upper Brittany
• Adula Alps

sport

• Quorn Hunt
• 1953 British Mount Everest expedition

organizations

• Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge
• Centre for Economics and Business Research
• Malacological Society of London
• Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry

other

• [[Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024
• Pokrovsky Nunnery
• Charter for the Environment
• Developing Countries Trading Scheme
• Sovereign (English coin)
• District Officer
• Emmet (heraldry)
• Erasure (heraldry)
• Mathey-Tissot
• Marlborough White Horse
• Deckergasse
• Kinora

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Gold noble of King Edward III

Collection of images (history):

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  Hunting a glyptodon
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  Gold helmet of Meskalamdug, c. 2550 BC
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  Stonehenge
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  Bronze head of an Akkadian ruler, c. 2350 BC
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  Lion Gate, Hattusa
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  Hattusa Green Stone, probably Bronze Age
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  Roundhouses
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  Walls of Troy
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  Troy
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  A Nimrud ivory, 9th to 7th century BC
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  Scythian gold comb, c. 430–390 BC
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  Stater of Mithrapata, c. 390–370 BC
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  Stater of Eucratides
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  Les Ferreres Aqueduct, Tarragona, c. reign of Augustus
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  Pantheon, Rome, 113–125 AD
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  Head of Colossus of Constantine, c. 314
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  Colossus of Barletta, late 5th century
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  Britain in the year 500
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  Justinian I, mosaic at Ravenna, 6th century
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  Lindisfarne Gospels, c. 715
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  Roerich, Guests from Overseas
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  Leif Eriksson
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  Alfonso III of Asturias, c. 1118
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  Château de Puilaurens, 13th C.
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  Bust of Charlemagne, c. 1350
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  Gold noble of Edward III of England, 1354
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  Westminster Hall, begun 1097, hammerbeam roof late 14th century
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  Richard II surrenders the crown, 1399
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  Sheep shearing, Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, c. 1410
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  French ploughman, c. 1410
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  Christine de Pisan, c. 1410
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  Portrait of a lady, c. 1410
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  Earl of Westmorland and his children, c. 1415
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  Battle of Agincourt
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  Roman de la Rose, c. 1425
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  Fra Angelico, measuring corn, 1437
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  Lippi, man and woman at a casement, c. 1440
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  Jakob Fuchsart and his sons, c. 1465
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  Woman by Hans Memling, c. 1470
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  St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, 1475–1511
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  Botticelli, Simonetta Vespucci, c. 1478
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  Botticelli, Giuliano de' Medici, c. 1478
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  Francis II of Brittany, 1488
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  Lorenzo Costa, musicians, c. 1490
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  Mary of Burgundy, c. 1490
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  Vasco da Gama lands at Calicut, 1498
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  King Henry VII, 1505
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  Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, 1503–1526
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  Quentin Matsys, The Moneylender and his wife, 1514
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  Children of Konrad Rehlinger, 1517
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  Henry VIII, Charles V, Pope Leo X, and a dragon, c. 1520
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  Holbein, The Ambassadors
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  Daniel Hopfer, Mamelukes, c. 1530
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  Drapers' market, Bois-le-Duc, c. 1530
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  Lucas Cranach, Old man beguiled by courtesans, c. 1537
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  Bronzino, Elizabeth of Toledo, 1545
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  Family of Henry VIII, c. 1545
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  Mary Tudor, 1544
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  Silver fantasy coin of Queen Jane, 1553, by Edward Emery
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  Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Dutch Proverbs, 1559
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  Lord Dacre, 1559
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  Gaspard de Saulx, c. 1560
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  Queen Elizabeth, Armada portrait
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  Nonsuch Palace
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  Queen Elizabeth sovereign, c. 1583
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  Annibale Carracci, The Beaneater, c. 1585
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  Family saying grace, c. 1585
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  Henry Unton, 1586
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  George Clifford
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  Rialto Bridge (built 1591)
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  Frozen river at Antwerp, 1593
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  Thomas Hesketh, 1595
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  Walter Raleigh and his son, 1602
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  Replica of the Godspeed
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  King James
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  Henry, Prince of Wales, 1603
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  The Somerset House Conference, 1604
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  Replica of the ship Godspeed (1607)
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  English settlers' arrival in Virginia, 1607
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  Wiltshire by John Speed (1611)
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  Havana, 1639
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  King Charles I
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  Wenzel Hollar, Execution of Strafford, 1641
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  Muenster, 1648
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  Arms of the Protectorate, 1653–1659
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  Delft, 1658
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  New Amsterdam, 1660
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  Three Crowns Castle, Sweden, 1661
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  Sarah, Duchess of Somerset, 1679
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  Queen Anne, c. 1705
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  Stonemason's Yard, Venice, 1726
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  Grand Canal, Venice, 1730
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  Entrance to the Arsenal, Venice, 1732
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  Stowe House, 1750
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  Clive after the Battle of Plassey, 1757
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  Laibach, 1765
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  Boston Riot
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  Battle of Long Island, 1776
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  John Colley Nixon, Royal Dipping, 1789
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  James Gillray, The great south sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly, 1795
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  Slave trader of Gorée, c. 1797
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  Mexican mountain man, c. 1797
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  The Coronation of Napoleon
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  Battle of Sitka
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  Gay-Lussac, 1804
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  Battle of Pulo Aura, 1804
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  Princess Amelia, c. 1805
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  Korah-Khoikhoi dismantling their huts, 1805
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  J. M. David, Hamburg, 1811
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  Napoleon's retreat from Moscow
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  Napoleon and Lavrushka by Leonid Pasternak
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  Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, 1812
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  José de San Martín declares independence of Peru, 1821
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  Death of Harris, 1824
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  Winter, by Alken
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  Donaueschingen, 1827
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  Grand Canal, Venice, 1837
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  Queen Victoria, £5 Pounds, 1839
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  New Brighton, c. 1840
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  Attack on Queen Victoria, 1840
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  E. G. Fanshawe, Port Stanley, 1849
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  Celle, c. 1845
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  Queen Victoria, Gothic crown, 1847
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  Hungarian government of 1848
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  Attack on Emperor Francis Joseph, 1853
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  Queen Victoria penny, 1860
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  Democratic poster, 1866
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  Repin, Volga boatmen, 1870
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  Batak warriors, c. 1870
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  Homer, Eagle Head, Massachusetts, 1870
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  Delpy, Pont Neuf and Quai des Orfèvres, Paris, 1875
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  Caillebotte, Place de Dublin, 1877
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  Karl Raupp, Chiemsee, c. 1880
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  Kursk procession, 1880s
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  A Hansom cab
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  Danish lifeboat, 1883
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  Monet, Tulip fields at Sassenheim, 1886
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  Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, On the pier, c. 1886
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  Monet, Woman outdoors, 1886
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  Breton Women at a Pardon, 1887
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  HMS Thrush (1889)
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  Elephant hunting, c. 1890
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  Lib, Earl of Harrington (polo), 1891
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  Cottet, Rayons du soir, 1892
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  Waterford, 1890s
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  Dresden, 1890s
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  USS Texas, 1892
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  Repin, Wedding of Nicholas II, 1892
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  Utopia Limited poster, 1893
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  Dog cart, 1890s
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  Amsterdam, Central Station, c. 1895
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  Andrees Station, 1897
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  Silver rupee of Baroda State, 1897
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  Saint Petersburg, 1890s
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  Stockholm Expo 1897
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  Harper's Magazine, May 1897
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  Bab Souika, Tunis, c. 1899
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  Fridtjof Nansen
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  Russian State Council, 1900
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  Reginald's Tower and Quay, Waterford, c. 1900
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  McKinley poster, 1900
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  St Michael's Mount, c. 1900
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  Amsterdam, c. 1900
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  Dresden, c. 1900
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  Sigmaringen Castle, c. 1900
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  Mulberry Street, Manhattan, c. 1900
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  Wyatt Earp's Dexter Saloon, Nome, Alaska, 1900
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  Jubilee Bridge, Laibach, 1910
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  Salute by Odin, 1902
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  Cottet, Women of Plougastel, 1903
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  Cedric, 1903
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  Repin, 17 October 1905
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  Portsmouth Town Hall, 1905
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  Automobile Calendar for 1906 (New York, 1905)
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  Un dirigeable militaire, c. 1906
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  Winnipeg, 1907
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  HMS King Edward VII (1907)
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  Léon Georget, 1909
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  Austria-Hungary, 1910
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  Albany Aniline and Chemical, New York, c. 1910
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  The Emperor on Austrian stamp of 1910
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  Felician Myrbach, Franz Joseph I in the Hofburg, c. 1910
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  Pyramid of Capitalist System, 1911
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  Nawabzada Mohammad Ismail Khan of Amb, 1911
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  Woman suffrage poster, 1913
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  Triple Entente, 1914
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  Jubilee Bridge, Laibach, c. 1914
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  Ward Muir, Curling at Kandersteg, Switzerland, c. 1914
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  Brighton pierrots, Walter Sickert, 1915
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  Yiddish Great War poster
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  Gaza, 1917
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  Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, 1918
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  Bahawalpur rupee of Sadeq Mohammad Khan V (1907–1955)
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  Making the Empire Christmas Pudding, c. 1930
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  Edward VIII at state opening of Parliament, 1936
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  Indian Provincial elections, 1937
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  Pitcairn Islands stamp, 1940
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  The three principals at Yalta, 1945
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  Europe by night, 2000

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