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The Mountain in Labour

Annie Lesca — 2015-01-16T08:36:35Z

Political cartoon showing 1872 Liberal Republicans gathered around a mountain witnessing the birth of its candidate, a mouse labeled "H. G." (Horace Greeley, the candidate for president) with a tail labeled "Gratz Brown" (the vice-presidential candidate). The scene is apparently based on a quotation from Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). Appeared in Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1872, p. 392
by Thomas Nast (1840–1902), the father of the American cartoon, creator of the modern version of Santa (...)

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Weihnachtspyramide

Annie Lesca — 2014-12-28T09:22:17Z

Source des croquis

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A British sailor surviving

Annie Lesca — 2014-09-29T11:46:13Z

A British sailor surviving in a large empty box of J. Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked.
Coloured lithograph
"Never go to sea without a large box of Morrison's pills, they will save your life", said the doctor and sure his honour was right and no mistaken when we were wrecked and all aboard perished I swallowed the pills, jumped into the box and here I am going with a fair wind safe (...)

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London Conference in 1830

Annie Lesca — 2014-08-17T13:03:38Z

London Conference as seen by Honoré Daumier headed in 1830 by TALLEYRAND, French ambassador. At this conference the borders between Belgium, Luxemburg and Holland were redrawn. The horse : Prussia The bear : Russia The monkey : Austria The fox : Britain The hare : France The turkey : Belgium The dog : the Netherlands (Holland) Woman on the floor : Poland
Conférence de Londres, 1832,
La Conférence de Londres en 1830. Les puissances européennes règlent le sort de la Belgique révoltée qui (...)

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Leeches as physicians in 1832

Annie Lesca — 2014-08-17T10:21:06Z

Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and announce a course of bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832 Il y a plénitude, nous vous soignerons demain, en attendant continuer la diète. There's redundancy of blood and humours, we'll bleed you tomorrow, till then, very little food.
Author : Broussais, F. J. V. (François Joseph Victor), (...)

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Boardgame of Goosy Goosy gandle

Annie Lesca — 2014-07-21T11:38:08Z

Proofreading by Marisa, thanks a lot. The game
Game of goosy gander, Two or three or four may play. EQUIPMENT : Four geese and an indicator with one arrow.
Goosey Gander went out to call her neighbors, her little family safely housed at home. Upon her return, no children were to be seen. Nearly distracted, she ran hither and thither, but could find no trace of them. At last, she called her neighbors to organize a search for the lost ones. Three neighbors responded and they all (...)

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A deck of cards for engineering instruments in 1702

Annie Lesca — 2014-07-04T09:31:48Z

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1702 : 18th Century Deck of Cards with a Mechanical Engineering Flavor Set of 52 engraved playing cards is the work of Thomas Tuttell (ca. 1674–1702), a British mathematical instrument maker who was appointed Instrument Maker to the King in 1700.
Probably issued by Tuttell as a trade catalogue, a clever and entertaining way of broadcasting the high quality of his workmanship and the breadth of his scientific knowledge.
Each card in the deck depicts a tradesman at work.
The (...)

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The Northumbrian

Annie Lesca — 2014-07-03T05:44:40Z

Northumbrian
16 July 1894
Original artist unrecorded ; reproduced Gibbon, Richard (2010) Stephenson's Rocket and the Rainhill Trials, Oxford : Shire Books, p. 37 ISBN : 9780747808039.
This is an image of a coloured lithograph, entitled : Locomotive Engine, 'The Rocket', 1830, published by The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 50 Leadenhall Street, London E.C. on 16 July 1894. The U.K. National Railway Museum has at least two copies, accession numbers 1975-8684 and 1978-2472, with images available (...)

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Ocean currents and friendly floatees

Annie Lesca — 2014-07-01T07:32:05Z

Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years, Inc. and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements including those of a consignment of Friendly Floatees, containing 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles and green frogs, washed into the Pacific Ocean in 1992.
Some of the toys landed along Pacific Ocean shores, like Hawaii. Others traveled over 17,000 miles, floating over (...)

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Mente et malleo

Annie Lesca — 2014-06-23T03:43:12Z

Un peu de latin... La devise des géologues bien illustrée

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