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- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid - William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone - Simon Bolivar
Simon Bolivar - Robert Tristram Coffin, Poet
Robert Tristram Coffin, Poet - Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick - Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck - Nicola the magician
Nicola the magician - Marshall Jofre
Marshall Jofre - Marshall Foch
Marshall Foch - Lorado Taft
Lorado Taft - Lafayette
Lafayette - Josef Lhevinne
Josef Lhevinne - John Masefield
John Masefield - Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey - Howard Thurston
Howard Thurston - Howard Thurston - Magician
Howard Thurston - Magician - Giovanni Martinelli
Giovanni Martinelli - Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau - Garet Garrett
Garet Garrett - Frederick the Great
Frederick the Great - Charles G. Dawes
Charles G. Dawes - Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin - Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington - Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli - Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie - Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh, politician and atheist - Hipparchus
- Statue of Newton, Trinity College, Cambridge
- Statue of Francis Bacon in Westminster Abbey
- Descartes
- Copernicus
- Blaise Pascal
- Bernard Palissy
- Agricola
- Von Guericke
- Tycho Brahe
- Torricelli
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Roger Bacon
- Paraclesus
- Laplace
- Kepler
- Huyghens
- Galileo
- Francis Bacon
- Hippocrates of Cos
Hippocrates - Hippocrates of Cos
Two other men with names greatly celebrated among the ancients may be referred to here, as representatives of what may be termed the Natural History group of sciences. One of them was a contemporary of Plato, the other was a pupil of Aristotle. The first is the famous physician HIPPOCRATES B.C. 470-375), to whom is attributed the foundation of medicine as a science. The healing of wounds and the cure of diseases is an art, and as such must have been practised in some form at a period coeval with the existence of mankind. The successful practice of this art depends largely upon knowledge of the causes, symptoms, and course of diseases, and upon a knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the human body. - Plato (from an ancient gem)
PLATO (B.C. 427 -374), whose name is so illustrious in philosophy has directly and indirectly largely influenced the course of intellectual development and scientific thought. Before Plato had become the disciple of Socrates, he had been a student of the philosophY of Heraclitus, one of whose prominent doctrines was that all things are in a state of ceaseless change, so that, for example, no one could ever be twice on the same river, inasmuch as the water is ever changing. About the age of twenty Plato became a disciple of Socrates, and continued so until the death of the latter, nine years afterwards. Plato then visited various countries, as Egypt, Persia, Sicily, and Italy. On returning to Athens he established his renowned school of philosophy amid the groves of Academus, near Athens; and this place has given a common title to schools of art, learning, and science throughout the world. Plato lived to an advanced age and left behind him many writings, now esteemed amongst the most precious legacies that antiquity has bequeathed to us. It was the practice of Socrates to constantly seek for definitions of justice, beauty, and so on, and this of course implied that he thought that in some things at least there was something permanent. Plato managed in his famous doctrine of Ideas to reconcile and combine the conflicting views of Heraclitus and of Socrates. This doctrine gave rise aftenvards to endless disputations, which for the most part diverted men's minds from the observation- of nature. - The Queen's first baby
Drawn and Etched by Her Majesty the Queen. [Queen Victoria] - Her Majesty Queen Victoria
The first portrait painted after her Coronation. The history as to how the first portrait of Her Majesty after her coronation was obtained is also full of interest. The Queen is represented in all her youthful beauty in the Royal box at Drury Lane Theatre, and it is the work of E. T. Parris, a fashionable portrait painter of those days. Parris was totally ignorant of the fact that when he agreed with Mr. Henry Graves, the well-known publisher, to paint "the portrait of a lady for fifty guineas," he would have to localise himself amongst the musical instruments of the orchestra of the National Theatre, and handle his pencil in the immediate neighbourhood of the big drum. Neither was he made aware as to the identity of his subject until the eventful night arrived. Bunn was the manager of Drury Lane at the time, and he flatly refused to accommodate Mr. Graves with two seats in the orchestra. But the solution of the difficulty was easy. Bunn was indebted to Grieve, the scenic artist, for a thousand pounds. Grieve was persuaded to threaten to issue a writ for the money unless the "order for two" was forthcoming. Bunn succumbed, and the publisher triumphed; and whilst the young Queen watched the performance, she was innocently sitting for her picture to Parris and Mr. Graves, who were cornered in the orchestra. Parris afterwards shut himself up in his studio, and never left it until he had finished his work. The price agreed upon was doubled, and the Queen signified her approval of the tact employed by purchasing a considerable number of the engravings. - Henry Morton Stanley - Age 31
Henry Morton Stanley - Age 31 - Henry Stanley - Age 26
Henry Stanley - Age 26 - Henry Stanley - Age 22
Henry Stanley - Age 22 - Henry Stanley - Age 50
Henry Stanley - 1891 - Emin Pasha
Among others whom Gordon employed as Governors of these various provinces under his Vice-regal Government was one Edward Schnitzler, a German born in Oppeln, Prussia, 28th March, 1840, of Jewish parents, who had seen service in Turkey, Armenia, Syria, and Arabia, in the suite of Ismail Hakki Pasha, once Governor-General of Scutari, and a Mushir of the Empire. On the death of his patron he had departed to Niesse, where his mother, sister, and cousins lived, and where he stayed for several months, and thence left for Egypt. He, in 1875, thence travelled to Khartoum, and a medical doctor, was employed by Gordon Pasha in that capacity. He assumed the name and title of Emin Effendi Hakim —the faithhful physician. Finally, in 1878, was promoted to Bey, and appointed Governor of the Equatorial Province of Ha-tal-astiva, which, rendered into English, Bey, and appointed Governor of the Equatorial Pro- vince of na-tal-ustiva, which, rendered into English, means Equatoria, at a salary of 50 pound per month. - Henry Morton Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley - Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc - Thomas A Edison
Thomas A Edison - Luther Burbank