Successful Collection (page 15)

Competitor in the Annual World Bog Snorkelling Championships
Andrew Davies / SpecialistStock

Judas Maccabeus Success
Judas Maccabeus maintains a successful war against the Seleucids who dominate Israel

Thomas Savery / Smiles
THOMAS SAVERY English military engineer, patented first commercially successful steam engine Date: 1650 - 1715

Successful Angler
An angler contemplates the fish he has just caught from the stream : his catch contemplates him back, with a fishy stare

Pola Negri / Borzoi Dog
POLA NEGRI (Appolonia Chalupek) Polish-born actress who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and was successful in silent films

Successful Ghost Hunter
A successful ghost hunter watches an apparition walk through a solid wall

Samuel Beeton
SAMUEL ORCHART BEETON Successful publisher and husband of the famous cook Mrs Beeton, died of tuberculosis in June 1877

Operation Dragoon / 1944
Operation Dragoon, the successful allied invasion of Southern France. Within 30 days it had linked up with the Normandy invasion forces

Italians in Sudan 1940
East Africa : the Italians continue their successful advance into Kurmuk, in the Sudan

Mahomed Akbar Khan
SARDAR MAHOMED AKBAR KHAN son of Dost Mohammad, led a successful rebellion against the pro-British Afghan ruler Shah Shuja in 1841

Wwi / British Cross Piave
Following the successful taking of the river by a joint Italian, British and French force, British cavalry cross the Piave

Gustave Zede Submarine
The Gustave Zede is one of the worlds first successful submarines, performing 2500+ dives without mishap : she is the first submarine to be equipped with a periscope

Alcock & Brown - 4
Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown receive their prize of 10, 000 pounds from Winston Churchill, for their successful first crossing of the Atlantic by air

Alcock & Brown - 1
Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown in Ireland after their successful first crossing of the Atlantic by air

Mccurdys Silver Dart
Canadian aviator J A D McCurdy pilots the Aerial Experiment Associations biplane Silver Dart designed by himself : he makes several successful flights

Tissandier Airship 3
The electric-powered dirigible of Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER flies from Auteuil, near Paris, and qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible airship

Tissandier Airship 2
Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER take off from Auteuil, near Paris, in their electric- powered dirigible which qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible

REPUBLIQUE - 2
Lebaudys Republique makes a successful first flight, amazing the countryfolk down there on the ground

ADERs EOLE 1891
ADERs EOLE I The most elegant of Aders would-be flying machines, this is also the least practicable and the least successful

Trial Trip, Underground
A successful trial trip on the Metropolitan Railway : the train - drawn by a steam locomotive - is about to enter Portland Road station, near Euston

Miss Vera Phillips
MISS VERA PHILLIPS One of Messrs Lafayettes most successful child studies

A Good Days Work
A GOOD DAYs WORK IN THE COVERS - counting the bag after a successful day slaughtering scores of beautiful pheasants

French Wolf Hunt
Returning home after a successful wolf hunt : this is a sporting event, without the rationale of ridding the countryside of an unwelcome predator

Balloon Attacked / 1783
The unmanned balloon is attacked on landing at Gonesse after a successful flight from Paris

Purvess Dynasphere
The Dynasphere designed by Dr J A Purves of Taunton, England, makes a successful test run, achieving 48 km/h

Saint Vincent Ferrier
SAINT VINCENT FERRIER (or FERRER)Spanish Dominican who had a stormy career but won renown as a phenomenally successful preacher on the theme of penance

Nicolaus Flamel
NICOLAUS FLAMEL French occultist, moneylender and alchemist. He is said to have gained vast treasures by successful transmutation

Doctors House Call
An 18th century doctor arrives in a sedan chair to pay a house call : only the really successful practitioners have their own carriage

Barry Delivers Prologue
ANN SPRANGER BARRY delivers the Prologue to John Hones highly successful Douglas which prompted a Scottish theatregoer to cry out Waurs your Willy Shakespeare noo ?

Napoleon at Toulon
His successful siege of Toulon forces the English to evacuate the town

Adah Menken / Lune 1867
Adah Menken, American actress, with a brief but controversial life story - this cartoon was done on the occasion of her very successful Paris visit

Spion Kop - Anon
At SPION KOP, the British are initially successful, but are compelled to retreat from the hilltop they have captured, failing to break through the Boer lines

French Dowser
Near Paris, a Congress of Experimental Psychology holds a successful demonstration of dowsing

First Montgolfier / Cig Cd
PILATRE DE ROZIER and the MARQUIS D ARLANDES make the first successful manned flight in a Montgolfier balloon (hot air) at Paris

Langleys Failure
Samuel Pierpont Langleys full-size flying machine fails over the Potomac, Washington, though trials with models had been successful

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