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Illustration from 19th century
The dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) attacking the Indians on engraving from 1770.
Busy roads of horse drawn carriages outside Royal Exchange and Bank of England
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s, 19th Century
I took this picture while traveling to England.
The Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford, in Oxfordshire England UK. From 1095 the oldest university of English speaking world, the University has thirty-nine semi autonomous colleges, so does not have a main campus. This University did educate 29 prime ministers of the United Kingdom.
London, UK. February 9th 2023. Entrance sign at the British Library.
Radcliffe Camera - Bodleian Library - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
A young woman checking her phone outside the Bodleian Library and All Souls College at the university of Oxford. Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
There are thirteen square pillars topped by head-and-shoulder busts marking the front boundary of the Sheldonian and erected when it was built in 1662–8. The official name for such heads is “herms”, but writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm called them “Emperors”, and that is the name that has stuck. Each head shows a different type of beard.
Francois de Voltaire a portrait from old French money
Old Victorian newspaper page, Sea serpent, 1870, 19th Century
Stamp commemorating the bicentennial of American independence.
Oxford, The Sheldonian Theatre in University of Oxford, in Oxfordshire England UK
The Sheldonian Theatre in the centre of Oxford, UK
Glasgow, Scotland - People outside the main entrance to the Gallery of Modern Art in central Glasgow, with the famous statue of the Duke of Wellington featuring a traffic cone as usual.
The Sack of Baltimore took place in 1631, when the village of Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by Ottoman Empire slavers from the Barbary Coast of North Africa – Dutchmen, Algerians and Ottoman Turks. From an 1886 antique book \
London skyline with St Pauls Cathedral looking over houses and other buildings.
A vintage map of the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League at Karlowitz in 1699
Vintage photograph of Russian restaurant at the Palace of Fine Arts, Exposition Universellem Paris, 1889, 19th Century
Paris, France - July 18th 2022: Faculty of Law (Faculté de droit) with the inscription liberty equality fraternity
The first chapter of Don Quixote
The chapel of the Queen’s convent, at the other end of the «cour d’honneur», viewed from the main entrance to the Lycée Hoche, the main high school in Versailles, at 73, avenue de Saint-Cloud
The Neue Wache on the boulevard Unter den Linden is a monument in the Berlin district of Mitte. Erected by Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1816 and 1818 as a guard for the Royal Palace opposite and a memorial for the Wars of Liberation, it is one of the main works of German classicism. Image from 19th century
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8). Copper engraving by Carl Schuler, published c. 1850.
London, England 1800s: The National Gallery an art museum in Trafalgar Square, City of Westminster. Founded in 1824 and Trafalgar Square since 1838, it houses over 2,000 paintings.
The Radcliffe Camera (from Latin camera, meaning 'room') is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.
Old page of text from a book on the history of Spain
Sheldonian Theatre, with busts of famous classical authors
Paris, France: The facade of Bibliotheque Thiers on Place St George in the 9th arrondissement; the history library is noted for its collection of Napoleonic memorabilia.
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