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Africa, Togo. Koutammakou, Tamberma people

Africa, Togo. Koutammakou, Tamberma people. Unesco World Heritage site. Entrance of a traditional fortified dwelling with the phallic fetishes of the ancestors

© Catherina Unger/AWL Images Ltd.

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Not a Word! Personalities at the Derby by The Tout

Not a Word! Everyone know this year's Derby winner. What they may be doing just before the race on June 6. Caricatures of notable personalities of the turf drawn by The Tout for The Tatler magazine. Names include, from left to right, Lord Howard de Walden, "The Black Prince", Dawson Waugh, Lord Durham, the Hon. Tom Egerton, Lord Valentia, Fred Darling, Gordon Richards, Victor Gilpin, The Duke of Norfolk, Mr J. A. Dewar, H.H. The Aga Khan, Steve Donoghue and Brownie Carslake, Fred Fox, Mr Tom Walls, Lord Derby, H. H. The Maharaja of Rajpipla, Cecil Boyd-Rochfort and Major Harold Cayzer, Togo Johnstone and Lord Glanely. Date: 1934

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Japanese pre-dreadnought battleship Mikasa - built in the UK

The Mikasa - a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and was the only ship of her class. The ship served as the flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 19041905, including the Battle of Port Arthur Built at Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness Date: 1904

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection