Images Dated 7th October 2016

Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles, 1804 (oil on canvas)

XOS1766336 Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles, 1804 (oil on canvas) by West, Benjamin (1738-1820); 68.6x50.8 cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; (add.info.: Patroclus is killed in battle by Hector who takes Achilles armour which he is wearing. Thetis brings her son new armour (made by Hephaestus) when Achilles is overcome with grief for his friend.); American, out of copyright

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Poster advertising the gold mines in California (colour engraving)

XIR164526 Poster advertising the gold mines in California (colour engraving) by French School, (19th century); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France; (add.info.: Affiche pour les mines d'or de la Californie : Des Millions pour un sou';); French, out of copyright

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America, American, American Dream, Anticipation, Colonial, Colonisation, Emigration, Gold Rush, Greed, Migrant, Migrants, Mining, North America, Plugging, Propaganda, Usa, Wealth

Milky Way and sand dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive milky is derived from the appearance from Earth of the galaxy - a band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter between 100, 000 and 180, 000 light-years (ly). It is estimated to contain 100-400 billion stars

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