Balloon landing in Mashgh square, Iran (Persia), at the time of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, around 1850.

So very Suffolk by P H Emerson

Moscow by Ivan Bilibin 1900

‘Flying Carpet’ 1888

This bittersweet double-page cartoon by Thomas Nast mourns the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which came just one week after the Union victory in the Civil War.

1865

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A BRAVE mongrel from Reading who went to war at the Battle of Maiwand is honoured in a memorial sculpture in central London.

Bobbie, who was based at Brock Barracks with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, went to Afghanistan with the regiment and was present at the famous battle in 1880.

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The ruler of Herat and rival of the British backed ruler of Afghanistan, Amir Abdur Rahman. It was Ayub Khan’s attempt at driving the infidels from his country that led to the battle of Maiwand. Nothing changes in Afghanistan ..

The windmill pavillion at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Columbian Exposition.

George Davey was sentenced to one month’s hard labour in Wandsworth Prison in 1872 for stealing two rabbits. He was ten years old.

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