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WW1 - The advantages of using a mosquito net

Always sleep under your mosquito net - WW1 postcard on a medical theme - the advantages of a French soldier using a Mosquito net inner tent - no longer inflicted with debilitating midge/gnat/mosquito bites all over his body and now highly appealing to his lady friend...! Date: 1918

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Folland Gnats RAF Red Arrows Farnborough 1978

RAFAT RAF aerobatic display team. the Red Arrows, in tight formation at Farnborough Air Show in September 1978 Date: 1978

© A Flying History / The Peter Keating Aviation Photograph Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

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Pillow cover with Arabic inscription, 800s. Creator: Unknown

Pillow cover with Arabic inscription, 800s. This rare complete Egyptian pillow cover is a masterpiece of contrasting colours. Crimson and blue-green wool alternate in the ground and bird inhabited roundels, supported by mustard-coloured wool and undyed linen woven in tapestry weave. When folded down the center, based on examples from Egyptian burials, four birds form a unit on each side and are appropriately ascending in flight. Above, an Arabic text written in angular kufic script reads, "In the name of God. Blessing from God to its owner. Of what was made in the tiraz." The word tiraz means factory or an Arabic-inscribed textile. This was probably made in al-Bahnasa, the city renowned for colourful wool textiles with figures, as they claimed, from a "gnat to the elephant."

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