Images Dated 8th April 2016 (#46)

Olympic Marathon
24th July 1908: The Marathon event at the 1908 London Olympics, competitors run past shops on the route between Windsor Castle and the White City Stadium. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Boer Raid
circa 1900: Boer soldiers guard guns captured from Bullen. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Turkish Navy
circa 1915: The former German battlecruiser Goeben seconded to the Turkish Navy at Constantinople and renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mad Inventor
circa 1900: One of a series of cartoons under a heading Here are some inventions, which (Thomas) Edison will without doubt soon perfect, captioned: When he entertains a friend

Robotic Breakfast
circa 1900: One of a series of cartoons under a heading Here are some inventions, which (Thomas) Edison will without doubt soon perfect

John Quincy Adams
circa 1825: US statesman John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 6th president of the USA, leaning on a pile of books. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

James Madison
1833: James Madison (1751 - 1836), the 4th President of the United States of America (1809 - 1817). In 1787 he took a leading part in drawing up the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights

Penny-Farthing
circa 1885: H McDonald with his penny-farthing bicycle (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Battleship Launch
26th November 1859: The launch of the battleship, HMS Victoria at Portsmouth. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

First Train
1876: The first railway train in China at Shanghai, on the Woosung line to Kungwong. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Stalin Speaks
1936: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, 1879 - 1953), addressing the Extraordinary 8th All Union Congress of Soviets on the draft of the USSRs constitution

Mast House
1863: The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cutting Turf
circa 1800: Farmers digging in crop fields near Castlereagh, County Roscommon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hot Air Balloons
circa 1785: Illustration of Blanchards balloon, Garnerin descending, Montgolfiers balloon, the wings employed by Blanchard, the wings employed by Lunardi

Swansea Docks
circa 1900: A view of the docks at Swansea. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Post War Salvage
November 1928: A ship, scuttled in 1919 with the rest of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow is raised to be broken up for salvage. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chauffeured Car
1906: A lady stepping out of a chauffeur driven car at a park, to take her dog for a walk. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Beatrix Potter
1892: Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943), British author and illustrator of childrens books, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit, at Birnam in Scotland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Napoleon Bonaparte
circa 1800: French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte I (1769 - 1821), a General in the Italian army. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Derby Morning
1863: People gathering on the Epsom Downs on the morning of a Derby day. Gypsies and stall-holders are setting up their pitches. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Golden Spike
10th May 1869: The golden spike is ceremonially driven in, completing the first transcontinental railroad, at Promontory Point, Utah

Benito Mussolini circa 1920
Benito Mussolini (in full Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini) born July 29, 1883, Predappio, Ital and died April 28, 1945, near Dongo)

Old Battleship
circa 1900: The old battleship, HMS St Vincent, at Portsmouth. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Desert Camel
circa 1925: A group of men resting with their camel in the Sahara Desert. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Asparagus Farming
A German peasant woman bends down to cut asparagus, circa 1930. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A Brush for the Lead
In a Currier & Ives print titled A Brush for the Lead; New York Flyers on the Snow, six sleighs race through snow covered streets, with one man (at lower right) almost falling out, New York, 1867

View Of Broadway In New York
View of traffic, pedestrians, and stores on Broadway, looking north from below Howard Street in Manhattan, New York, New York, 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Students In Class At Chinese College
A teacher sits at a desk on raised platform and points to a student who recites a lesson at Chinese College, Hartford, Connecticut, late 1870s

Herculaneum Amphitheatre
Three views of the Roman theatre at Herculaneum, showing the proscenium (top), a cross section (centre) and the seating area (bottom). A French print by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, dated 1779

Shepherds Well in Londons Hampstead, one source of the River Tyburn, 1820. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fleet Ditch
Old Houses, with the Open Part of the Fleet Ditch, near Field Lane, 1851. The Fleet River, known as the Fleet Ditch, served as a sewer in old London. Engraving by John Wykeham Archer

Moray Place, Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Christchurch
The view from Colombo Square, Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Washington Tavern In Philadelphia
Exterior view of the Washington tavern when it was known as the Falstaff Inn, Philadelphia, 1830. The public house at 6th and Jayne opened in 1790

Red Cross Relief
A group of child and adult survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and citywide fires stand outside the entrance of the Red Cross relief center at 23rd Street and Vermont Street

Amarapura City Wall
The south east corner of the city wall and moat which surrounds Amarapura, Burma (now Myanmar), 1854. (Photo by Linnaeus Tripe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sebouktya Kyung
The ornate Sebouktya Kyung, or monastery, in Amarapura, Burma (now Myanmar), 1855. (Photo by Linnaeus Tripe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Venus De Milo
circa 1930: The sculpture Venus de Milo at the Louvre in Paris. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Crystal Palace
circa 1853: The Upper Gallery at Crystal Palace after its reconstruction in Sydenham Hill, South London. (Photo by Philip Henry Delamotte/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fur Display
1851: Furs on display at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, at Hyde Park, London

Chinese Display
1851: A display from China at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, at Hyde Park, London

Golfers During Game
1863: A group of golfers during at game at Blackheath, south London. Sketch by C A Doyle published in London Society (1863) (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Palace And Park
circa 1855: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham and the landscaped park in front. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

East Temple Street In Salt Lake City
View of traffic along East Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1880s. A number of covered wagons, drawn by cattle are on the unpaved road

Hard At Work
A black woman and three men work hard in the woods, stripping bark for trees, filling barrels and loading them onto a cart, somewhere in the American South, late 1860s

Del Mina
circa 1600: The coastal trading town of Elmina in Ghana, built around the Portuguese castle of St George El Mina. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pineapple
A Lady Beatrice Lambton pineapple, circa 1850. A chromo-lithograph by P. de Pannemaeker after a drawing by C. T. Rosenberg. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Curtiss Sociable Triplane
Colorized photograph of Curtiss L-1 variant Speed Scout sociable triplane, 1916. The plane was developed for use in World War One but never saw combat

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