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Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Zulu Women

Zulu Women
circa 1900: Women from a Zulu tribe preparing a meal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: The Matterhorn

The Matterhorn
circa 1950: The Matterhorn, a mountain peak on the Swiss Italian border. 4, 478 metres high. First climbed by English Mountaineer Edward Whymper in 1865

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Naval Review

Naval Review
June 1911: The British Fleet, headed by HMS Neptune, steaming through the Solent, to anchor at Spithead for the Coronation Review. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Cat Cooks

Cat Cooks
circa 1880: Kittens cooking rat pie on a New Years greetings card. Raphael Tuck & Sons (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Boat Train

Boat Train
30th August 1909: The first passenger boat train leaves Fishguard for London, carrying passengers from the liner, SS Mauretania moored at Fishguard, in Wales

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Self-Trimming Saloon

Self-Trimming Saloon
1875: A cross section of the Bessemer Saloon Steamer which contains the self-trimming saloon designed by inventor and engineer Sir Henry Bessemer, and its lavish interior design

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Battle Of Shrewsbury

Battle Of Shrewsbury
A Plan of the Battle of Shrewsbury and the Line of March of the Two Armies, 21st July 1403. King Henry IVs line crosses the River Severn and proceeds north, to meet Hotspur s

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Pre-Raphaelite

Pre-Raphaelite
1869: Laus Veneris ( praise of Venus ) by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Husky Dog Chosen For Sir Ernest Shackletons Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Husky Dog Chosen For Sir Ernest Shackletons Trans-Antarctic Expedition
July 1914: A husky dog called Tough at Spratts Bedlington Kennels, chosen to take part in an Antarctic expedition led by Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Shoe Blacks

Shoe Blacks
circa 1895: Young shoe-blacks take some time off at the water fountain opposite the Morning Star public house, at the corner of Richmond Row and Byram Street in Liverpool.The pub

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Victorian Express

Victorian Express
circa 1875: The East Coast Railway Victorian Express locomotive. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Ludworth Engine

Ludworth Engine
1867: A South Eastern Railway engine pulling out of Waterloo Station, London. (Photo by F. Moore/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Street In Glasgow

Street In Glasgow
circa 1895: Passers-by and horse-drawn traffic in Jamaica Street, Glasgow. Glasgow flourished during the industrial revolution because the Clyde was dredged

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Suburban Home

Suburban Home
May 1866: The Willows, Plaistow, London. There is a groom at the door with a pony and trap. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Victoria Arch

Victoria Arch
1879: The Victoria Arch in Peel Park, Salford viewed from the Crescent. The design is strongly influenced by Mohammedan or Indian architecture. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West
circa 1940: Vita Sackville West (Victoria Mary Nicolson, 1892-1962), an English novelist who was the model for Virginia Woolfs Orlando. She married the diplomat Harold Nicolson in 1913

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Tibetian Costume

Tibetian Costume
circa 1900: Two men dressed in elaborate Tibetan costume with head dresses, embroidered coats and pointed slippers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Bayeux Tapestry Scene - Future King Harold II rescues two of William the Conquerors soldiers

Bayeux Tapestry Scene - Future King Harold II rescues two of William the Conquerors soldiers
In a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, the future King Harold II (c.1022 - 1066) rescues two of William the Conquerors soldiers from quicksand at Mont Saint-Michel

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: The Plowmans Tale

The Plowmans Tale
The Plowman in a scene from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. A woodcut from Richard Pynsons 1492 edition. This tale was added later, by a different author

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Americas Cup Yacht Shamrock IV Overtakes Resolute 1920

Americas Cup Yacht Shamrock IV Overtakes Resolute 1920
Jul 1920: the Yacht Shamrock IV Overtakes Resolute during the Second Race in the Americas Cup Series. Mandatory Credit: Allsport Hulton/Archive

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Portrait Of William Butler Yeats

Portrait Of William Butler Yeats
circa 1920: Irish poet, dramatist and Nobel laureate, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), a leader of the Irish Renaissance and one of the foremost writers of the 20th century

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Medieval Dress

Medieval Dress
A woman of the Ursin family during the reign of King Charles VI, circa 1420. She is wearing a rich brocade, fur-trimmed jacket over a red woollen dress, and a large headdress

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Welsh Bard

Welsh Bard
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Due Aquile, Benito Mussolini posing beneath an eagle

Due Aquile, Benito Mussolini posing beneath an eagle
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) symbolically posing beneath an eagle. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: St Louis

St Louis
circa 1890: Broadway, north from Chestnut Street, St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Clifton Bridge circa 1900:

Clifton Bridge circa 1900:
circa 1900: The Clifton Suspension Bridge, spanning the Avon Gorge Bristol, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859), but not completed until after his death in 1864

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Victorian Nurses

Victorian Nurses
1890: A group of Queen Victoria nurses in uniform. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Aztec Couple

Aztec Couple
circa 1880: A man and woman from the ancient Aztec tribe of southern and central Mexico, dressed in western-style wedding clothes

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt
French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923) in a scene from the play, Theodora. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Dervish

Dervish
Portrait of a Mohammedan friar. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
The English poet and dramatist, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), circa 1610. Painting known as the Chandos portrait (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Shoshones

Shoshones
circa 1872: Native Americans of the Shoshone tribe westernised by Mormons in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Steam Threshing

Steam Threshing
Agricultural workers use a steam powered thresher that looks like an early locomotive. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Scarborough Harbour

Scarborough Harbour
Barrels stacked on the quayside of the old harbour at Scarborough. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Jamestown Fort

Jamestown Fort
Three ships lie at anchor on the river as early settlers carry lumber and raise the walls of the stockade fort at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America, circa 1610

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Map Of Colonial Philadelphia

Map Of Colonial Philadelphia
A plan of the city of Philadelphia, situated at the junction of the Schuylkill (left) Delaware Rivers, Pennsylvania, circa 1750

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: The Crawlers

The Crawlers
A beggar paid to look after a baby sitting at the side of a street, circa 1877. From Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith - pub. 1877 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: St Christopher

St Christopher
Medieval representation of St Christopher carrying the Christ-child on his shoulder over the waters, circa 1300. St Christopher became the patron saint of travellers

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Tusk Warehouse

Tusk Warehouse
Ivory tusks covering the floor of a warehouse in Londons docklands before they are sold. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Big Bertha

Big Bertha, the Howitzer L/14, manufactured by the German industrialist Gustav Krupp. With a range of 122km, it bombarded Paris for 20 months during 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky
Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893). His works include six symphonies and three piano concertos, only two of which are finished, a violin concerto and eleven operas

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Satan And Beelzebub

Satan And Beelzebub
Satan and Beelzebub, as illustrated in Miltons Paradise Lost. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Chief Tatanka Yotaka or Sitting Bull

Chief Tatanka Yotaka or Sitting Bull (c.1834 - 1890), who led the Sioux in their resistance against the settlers before touring America as part of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Tartarus

Tartarus
The three most famous inhabitants of Tartarus, the ancient Greek equivalent of Hell, circa 1500 BC. From left to right, Sisyphus endlessly shoulders his rock, Ixion is bound to a wheel for eternity

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Union Pacific

Union Pacific
Steam locomotives on Devils Gate Bridge during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, one of the two railroads forming the USAs first transcontinental line (linked at Utah in 1869)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Merchant Of Venice

Merchant Of Venice
Salanio and Salarino encounter Shylock on a street in Venice, in Act III, Scene I of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice, circa 1596. A watercolour by Sir John Gilbert, RA

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Londons Covent Garden

Londons Covent Garden
Rich and poor, young and old, man and woman, come to shop and sell at Londons Covent Garden Market in this engraving after Hogarth from 1720. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Chemist and physicist, Sir Michael Faraday

Chemist and physicist, Sir Michael Faraday
Chemist and physicist, creator of the classical field theory, Sir Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867). He started his career as an assistant to Sir Humphry Davy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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