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KWE878596: Richard Parker, 1767 1797. English sailor executed for his part in the so-called "Floating Republic", a naval mutiny aboard the HMS Sandwich in the Royal Navy which took place at the Nore, Thames Estuary, England in 1797. From The Strand Magazine published 1897., English School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE878629: A Peace Conference. The meeting between Victor Emmanuel II and Count Radetzky, after the Battle of Novara, March 24, 1849. Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz. Czech nobleman and Austrian general. Victor Emmanuel II, 1820 1878. King of Italy. From Edward VII His Life and Times, published 1910. / Bridgeman Images
KWE878573: Friar Oderic arrives at purgatory. Odoric or Oderic of Pordenone. Italian late-medieval Franciscan friar and missionary explorer. During his travels he inadvertently arrived at a sort of minor Inferno or a place for lost souls, belief in a place of this kind in Central Asia was very widespread in the Middle Ages. The strange noises he heard were however just the wind blowing the sand about in the deserts. From The Strand Magazine published 1897., English School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images