Images Dated 2006

Bromley High Street

A rainy day on Bromley High Street, Kent, circa 1925.
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The Periodic Table Digital Illustration

In the late 19th century, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first attempt at grouping chemical elements according to their atomic weights. There were only about 60 elements known at the time, but Mendeleev realized that when the elements were organized by weight, certain types of elements occurred in regular intervals, or periods.
Today chemists officially recognize 118 elements and still use Mendeleev's periodic table of elements to organize them. The table starts with the simplest atom, hydrogen, and then organizes the rest of the elements by atomic number, which is the number of protons each contains. With a handful of exceptions, the order of the elements corresponds with the increasing mass of each atom

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Scylla And Charybdis

In Greek mythology, Jason and the Argonauts pass between the ravening monster Scylla (left) and the whirlpool Charybdis with the help of Thetis and her sea nymphs, circa 1200 BC. The goddesses Hera and Athena watch from a cloud, and the god Hephaestos from a nearby mountain. An engraving by Joseph Anton Koch after Asmus Jakob Carstens. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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