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The "Welcome Stranger" found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
The "Welcome Stranger" was the largest alluvial gold nugget in history
Reginald Frontispiece Ltd
On leaving school in 1960, I worked in Fleet Street, in press photography. My interest in the printed image expanded to include vintage and antique prints. What was a collection became a business!
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Charles Lindbergh aviation pioneer
The Spirit of St. Louis is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution
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Greek War of Independence Concluded
The London Protocol established the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire
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Daniel Defoe and Alexander Selkirk
Selkirk's experience inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe.
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Edward III was crowned, at the age of forteen, King of England and Lord of Ireland
His reign was marked for his subjects by the ravages of the plague.
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On this day in 1606 Guy Fawkes was executed
His dead body underwent the process of being drawn and quartered
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The execution of King Charles I
He was then beheaded with one clean stroke of the executioner's axe
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The Victoria Cross in action
“Most conspicuous bravery … in the presence of the enemy..”
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Sir Horace Walpole and the invention of the word 'serendipity'
"A fortunate stroke of serendipity"
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On this day in 1816
Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, died aged 92.
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The history of Sydney, Norfolk Island, and Botany Bay
In all, about 164,000 convicts were transported to the Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868
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"The Governing Classes" from Vanity Fair
Monmouth was beheaded for treason