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Sutherland Lubricating Jelly : water soluble for general lubricating needs.
Date: [approximately 2000?]- Books
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A discourse to prove that the strongest temptations are conquerable by Christians: or, A sober defence of nature and grace, against the cavils, and excuses of loose inconsiderate men. In a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London, and Court of Aldermen, the 14th of January, 1676/7. By George Hickes, B.D.
Hickes, George, 1642-1715.Date: 1713- Pictures
A storm at sea off the Venetian coast. Etching by G. Giampiccoli after M. Ricci and G.B. Tiepolo.
Ricci, Marco, 1676-1729.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2498678i- Pictures
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Congo: one man is being carried in a litter and another on a seat suspended from sticks. Engraving by Taylor after S. Wale.
Wale, Samuel, -1786.Date: [1777-1778]Reference: 37133i- Pictures
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Odysseus and his men blinding the cyclops Polyphemus with a sharpened stake. Etching by Taylor, ca. 1790.
Date: [1790?]Reference: 43375i- Pictures
Artillery transport by elephants and men along the mountain road to Mulkera, Himachal Pradesh. Coloured lithograph after Alexander Jack, c.1847.
Jack, Alexander.Date: [1847]Reference: 28034iPart of: Six views of Kot Kangra- Pictures
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A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 7 April 1806Reference: 854i- Pictures
Christ carrying the cross. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1835.
Date: March 17th. 1835Reference: 2917945i- Books
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Men warned to examine the ground of their religion; or, false foundations removed, and the true one pointed out; a sermon: preached in the cathedral church, Norwich, on Sunday, October 17th, 1790. By W. Hurn, Vicar of Debenham, and Chaplain to Her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Chandos. Published by Particular Desire. If the Foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Ps. xi. 3. Except the Lord Build the House, they labour in vain that build it. Ps. cxxvii. 1. Nevertheless the Foundation of God standeth Sure. 2 Tim. ii. 19. The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower: the righteous runneth into it and is Safe. Prov. xviii. 10. Through wisdom is an House Builded; and by understanding it is Established: and by knowledge shall the Chambers be Filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Prov. xxiv. 3, 4. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings: for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my Righteousness shall be for Ever, and my Salvation from Generation to Genetaiton. Is. li. 7, 8.
Hurn, William, 1754-1829.Date: [1790]- Books
Women after all : sex, evolution, and the end of male supremacy / Melvin Konner, M.D.
Konner, MelvinDate: [2015]- Books
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Sad and lamentable newes from Holland : Being a true relation of the great and wonderful inundation of waters, that brake in at the town of Gorkham, in the night-time, near the city of Amsterdam, where many stately houses became bnried [sic] in the violent waves; both men, vvomen and children perishing in the raging billows. Also, the manner how the waters brake in again with great violence, on Munday last about noon, at the two strong sluces of Bonmel and Thieler, where about thirty villages were drowned and not any thing to be seen, but the tops of some few steeples and chimneys, many perishing in the vvaters; some escaping in boats, and the poor infants floating upon the raging vvaves in their swadling-bands and cradles together with the sad and wofull cries and groans of the poor distressed inhabitants; and the ringing of the bells backward, to prevent the perishing of others.
Date: 1663- Books
Osteoporosis : the silent epidemic / Marilyn Glenville.
Glenville, Marilyn.Date: 2005- Pictures
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A group of men wearing black and white cheque head-scarves pull a rope across a yellow winning line on a chequered floor with the words 'pride' and care' across the background; the calendar months for 1993 and 1994 below highlight Lesbian and Gay Week in the City of Vancouver, AIDS Awareness Week and World AIDS Day; calandar by AIDS Vancouver. Colour lithograph by Tom Lovis and Ion Design, Inc.
Date: 1993Reference: 668549i- Books
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Stolen, out of the house of Mr. John Poole, Church-Street, Manchester, On Saturday Morning the 1st of December, 1798, By John Roscow, 4 silver table spoons, marked on the back, ril very old make. 8 Silver Tea Spoons, 4 Ditto Salt ditto, 1 Ditto Salt Shovel, 1 Ditto broke Ditto, Marked on the Back, Griffin's Head and Coronet. 1 Suit of Men's Clothes, dark claret colour, with a red inside Cape to the Coat, and Silver Binding round it-made for a Tall, but very thin Man, and not much worn. The said John Roscow is about 25 to 30 Years of age, round Face, from five Feet five Inches to five Feet seven Inches high, light-brown short Hair, had on a dark claret coloured Coat, with red Collar, Waist coat of the same colour, Leather Breeches, and Shoes tied with Ribbon; says he comes out of Cheshire, but has lived some Time at Conway, in Wales, and has a very strong Welch Accent. Whoever will bring him to the said Mr. Poole, shall on his Conviction, Receive Five Guineas Reward, Over and above all reasonable Charges.
Poole, John, Mr.Date: [1798]- Digital Images
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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades(1583), and Gerard's (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However, he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation, Dodoens Histoire des Plantes (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades (1583), and Gerard's Herbal (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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A golden key to open hidden treasures, or several great points, that refer to the saints present blessedness, and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions. Also, the active and passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved; against men of corrupt minds, &c. who boldly, in pulpit and press contend against those glorious truths of the gospel. To which is added, Eleven serious singular Pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make, to those ten scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general judgment, and of that particular judgment, that must certainly pass upon them all immediately after death. The Godhead and manhood of Christ, is here largely proved, and improved against all gainsayers, by what names and titles soever they are distinguished and known among us. Several things concerning hell, and hellish torments, opened, cleared and improved against all Atheists, and all others that boldly assert, that there is no hell, but what is in us. Some other points of importance are here cleared and opened, which other authors (so far as the author hath read) have passed over them in great silence, all tending to the confirmation of the strong, and support, peace, comfort, settlement and satisfaction of poor, weak, doubting, trembling, staggering Christians. By Thomas Brooks, Late Preacher of the Gospel, at Margarets-New-Fish-Street.
Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Pictures
Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: Manchu soldiers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19576i- Pictures
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The harmful effects of wine. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
Date: Reprinted 1930Reference: 679960iPart of: Why America went dry.- Books
Inferior : how science got women wrong - and the new research that's rewriting the story / Angela Saini.
Saini, Angela, 1980-Date: 2017- Pictures
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Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
Date: 1861Reference: 42740i- Pictures
Polyphemus is taunted by Odysseus and advances to attack his ships. Etching after J.M.W. Turner.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 2856160i- Pictures
Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19724i- Pictures
Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19725i- Books
Life, death and growing up on the western front / Anthony Fletcher.
Fletcher, AnthonyDate: [2013]