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  • Neolithic rock engaving depicting scythes, Norway.
  • Details of an HIV and AIDS helpline available in Norway financed by the Norway State for Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Neolithic rock carving representing 2 elks, Norway.
  • Ocean Girl brand fancy Norway kipper snacks : fillets of kippered herrings : product of Norway : net weight 3 1/4 ozs / packed by Hoem Canning Export Co.
  • Astronomy: a sailing ship at the North Cape, Norway, sailing under the midnight sun. Engraving, 1825.
  • Skatron Instruments : Skatron Instruments AS, Dølasetta 3, P.O. Box 8, N-3401 Lier, Norway.
  • Six crustaceans, including the Hermit lobster, the Norway lobster and the Long-clawed lobster. Engraving by J. Record.
  • Colour variation in wild Norway rats captured in England, fig 57 opp. page 126 in Genetics and Eugenics by W. E. Castle, Harvard University Press, 1916
  • Chang, the Chinese giant : Brustad, the giant of Norway. Che-Mah, the Chinese Tom Thumb. Madaree, the real hindoo jadooger. And the midget prince 'Adonis' / Royal Aquarium, Westminster.
  • A naked man and woman embracing with the question 'Do you think the pill protects against HIV and other STDs?'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for an AIDS helpline in Norway. Colour lithograph after Morten Krogvold, ca. 1995.
  • A world map with figures and statistics highlighting the numbers of those with the HIV virus; with the message that over 50% of heterosexual HIV transmission in Norway occurs abroad; an advertisement by The Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Colour lithograph by , ca. 1995.
  • A man with a pierced nipple immersed in water with his legs open to reveal his penis; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for condoms by the Helseutvalget for Homofile, Gay and Lesbian Health Norway. Lithograph by Fin Serck-Hanssen and En-Garde Design, ca. 1995.
  • Numerous makes of condom from across the world from 'Tulipan' condoms in Argentina to 'King' condoms in Malaysia; with a message about safety when travelling abroad 'Travel against HIV ... The safest course is to bring condoms from Norway'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen MOT AIDS, RFSU Norge AS and LNU. Colour lithograph by Jensen-Grey, 1992.
  • Asphodeline lutea Rchb. Yellow asphodel, King's spear, Hastula regia. Hardy rhizomatous perennial. Distribution Mediterranean and Caucasus. It is the flower of the dead, as Homer writes that it carpets an area in the gloomy darkness of the underworld (Hades), in Greek mythology where the souls of the dead are found. However this may be a misinterpretation of the Greek where 'Asphodel' has been read instead of 'ash-filled'. In the etymology of flower names, it is suggested that the yellow 'daffodil' is a corruption of French or Flemish 'de asphodel' (both ex Steve Reece, 2007). An Aristotelian epigram, refers to it growing on tombs: 'On my back I hold mallow and many-rooted asphodel ...' The asphodel was sacred to Persephone, goddess of the underworld, who was seized and wed by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken to his kingdom. Her disappearance brings the winter, and her reappearance each year, the spring. The only reliable source of information about its early medical uses is, probably, Dioscorides although the plant in his De Materia Medica may be A. ramosus or A. albus. He gives its properties as diuretic, induces menses, good for coughs and convulsions, an antidote to snake bite, applied as a poultice for sores of all sorts, and in compounds for eye, ear and tooth pains, and to cure alopecia and vitiligo, but induces diarrhoea and vomiting and is an anti-aphrodisiac. Fuchs (1542), as Ruel’s commentaries (1543) note, makes a big mistake as he has Lilium martagon as his concept of A. luteus. Ruel only illustrates its leaves and roots, calling it Hastula regia (Latin for King’s spear) but Matthiolus's Commentaries (1569 edition) has a reasonable woodcut also as Hastula regia (1569). Dodoen's Cruydeboeck (1556) does not mention or illustrate Asphodelus luteus. L'Escluse's French translation Histoire des Plantes (1557) follows the Cruydeboeck. Dodoen's Latin translation Stirpium Historia Pemptades Sex (1583) adds A. luteus with text and woodcut, with no uses. Henry Lyte's (1578) translation illustrates Asphodelus luteus as Asphodeli tertia species and 'Yellow affodyl' (vide etymology of 'daffodil') and also does not describe any uses for it. Gerard's translation The Herbal (1597 and 1633) continues the muddle and does not give any uses for this plant. Parkinson's comments (1640) on the lack of medicinal properties of asphodels, refer to quite different plants coming from wet areas in Lancashire, Scotland and Norway . He calls them pseudoasphodelus major and minor which he writes are called Asphodelus luteus palustris by Dodoens, and not 'King's Spear' which he illustrates with a good woodcut of A. luteus and calls it Asphodelus luteus minor. Once herbals started to be written in northern Europe, the knowledge of the arid loving, Asphodelus luteus of south east Europe was lost. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A young Corinthian woman adorning an urn with flowers. Engraving by J.J. Flipart after J.M. Vien.
  • A personified condom with two fingers in his mouth as he wolf-whistles; with the message 'Think before you act! AIDS is transmitted by sexual contact - condoms protect'; an advertisement by Helsedirektoratet. Colour lithograph, 1986.
  • A personified condom grimacing as he prepares to dive with the message 'Think before you take the plunge! AIDS is transmitted by sexual contact - condoms protect'; an advertisement by Helsedirektoratet. Colour lithograph, 1986.
  • A personified condom grimacing as he adjusts his bow-tie with the question 'Are you dressed for any occasion? AIDS is transmitted by sexual contact - condoms protect'; an advertisement by Helsedirektoratet. Colour lithograph, 1986.
  • The faces of a man and a woman facing each other with the message 'Say it first! Say that you want to use a condom!'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Helsedirektoratet (Norwegian Directorate of Health). Lithograph by Morten Krogvold, ca. 1995.
  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The eye of a woman looking through a hole in an orange triangle decorated with winged cupids, flowers and fabrics as she holds up a world globe with 2 fingers; an advertisement for World AIDS Day 1 December 1992 by the AIDS Landsforeningen MOT, Pluss, Helsedirektoratet, Folkehelsa and Helseutvalget for Homofile. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman puts her arm around a man as they sit on one end of a bench as he puts arm out to hold hands with a man on the other side; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at bisexual men by the Oslo Helseråd. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990.
  • The green outline of a condom inside which the male symbol points upwards representing the man's penis next to the symbol for bisexuality; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the RFSU, Norwegian Red Cross, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports and the Norwegian AIDS Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The green outline of a condom inside which the male symbol points upwards representing the man's penis next to the symbol for bi-sexuality; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the RFSU, Norwegian Red Cross, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports and the Norwegian AIDS Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • The green outline of a condom inside which the male symbol points upwards representing the man's penis next to the symbol for bi-sexuality; with running figure of Cupid and the words AIDS, SIDA, HIV within the condom; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the RFSU, Norwegian Red Cross, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports and the Norwegian AIDS Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A water-god embracing a goddess with a cornucopia, surrounded by figures bearing red hearts; an advertisement for women and HIV and AIDS to mark World AIDS Day 1990. Colour lithograph by Anita Viola Nielsen, 1990, for the AIDS Landsforeningen MOT.
  • Two men kissing with the message HIV-positive people have the right to have sex; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Helseutvalget For Homofile, the Norwegian Gay and Health Committte. Lithograph by Fin-Serck-Hanssen, ca. 1995.
  • The faces of five gay couples within the letters of the word 'Kondom' repeated; representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Helseutvalget For Homofile, the Norwegian Gay and Health Committte. Lithograph by Fin-Serck-Hanssen and Tron Hirsti, ca. 1995.
  • Two red dotted arrows incorporating an 'Okeido' condom and a bottle of lubricant pointing towards the jeans pocket of a bare-chested man; with the message 'well-equipped'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Helseutvalget For Homofile, the Norwegian Gay and Health Committte. Lithograph by Fin-Serck-Hanssen, ca. 1995.
  • Astronomy: the Aurora Borealis, with pine trees in the foreground. Colour process print after by M. Raebel, 1909.