PIX4658170: Santa Claus in Lapland - Santa Claus in Lapland - Santa Claus in Lapland. Levitunturi Summit, Kittila, Finland. Father Christmas in Lapland. Top of fell Levitunturi in Kittila, Finland / Bridgeman Images

PIX4658187: Santa Claus in Lapland - Santa Claus in Lapland - Santa Claus in Lapland. Kittila, Finland. Father Christmas in Lapland. Kittila, Finland / Bridgeman Images

PIX4658188: Santa Claus in Lapland - Santa Claus in Lapland - Santa Claus in Lapland. Levitunturi Summit, Kittila, Finland. Father Christmas in Lapland. Top of fell Levitunturi in Kittila, Finland / Bridgeman Images

FLO4658222: Married woman of Coburg, Franconia, Germany, 19th century. She wears an embroidered cap of pleated chiffon, and a full cape of rich cloth, decorated with gold braid. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Costumes of Various Countries, Costumes de Divers Pays, Paris, 1827., Gatine, Georges Jacques (1773-1831) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4658228: Servant girl of Coburg, Franconia, Germany, 19th century. She wears her hair is tied up in a bun, laced bodice with ribbons, short sleeves, and full pleated petticoats. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Costumes of Various Countries, Costumes de Divers Pays, Paris, 1827., Gatine, Georges Jacques (1773-1831) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4658293: Young woman of the vallee d'Aure, France, 19th century. She wears the Pyrenean capulet or hood over her head and shoulders, fichu, apron and petticoats. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Costumes of Various Countries, Costumes de Divers Pays, Paris, 1827., Gatine, Georges Jacques (1773-1831) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4658343: Algerian desert seen by ISS 08 - 2006 - Algerian desert seen by ISS 08 - 2006 - Algerian desert seen by the international space station on 08/08/2006 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4658362: Algerian desert seen by shuttle 12/99 - Le Sahara, Algeria, seen by shuttle STS - 103 on 12/24/1999. Part of the shuttle window is visible in the lower left corner of the image / Bridgeman Images

FLO4658394: Straw hat merchant - Straw hat seller, Paris, early 19th century, in white dress with frilled cuffs and hem, lace collar and bonnet - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from “” Ouvrieres de Paris” (Tradeswomen of Paris), Paris, 1823 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4658402: Bouquetiere - Flower seller, Paris, early 19th century, in red dress, white apron and bonnet, carrying a basket of flowers - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from “” Ouvrieres de Paris” (Tradeswomen of Paris), Paris, 1823 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4658409: Merchant de toile - Fabric seller, early 19th century, in black apron over white dress, bonnet and gloves, carrying a bolt of cloth and measure - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from “” Ouvrieres de Paris” (Tradeswomen of Paris), Paris, 1823 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4658434: Demoiselle de boutique - Shop girl of Paris, wearing a bonnet, lace collar and long coat and carrying a bolt of fabric - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from “” Ouvrieres de Paris”” (Tradeswomen of Paris), Paris, 1823 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4658447: Desert - Saudi Arabia - 06/91 - Desert in Saudi Arabia observed by shuttle STS - 40 on 01/06/1991 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661611: White monseron agaric (Calocybe gambosa, Agaricus albellus) and strong odour agaric (Agaricus graveolens). Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661628: Sulphur-coloured agaric (Agaricus sulphureus) and odorant agaric (Agaricus odorus). Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661639: Edible agaric ecarlate (Agaricus coccineus) and Conical Agaric (Agaricus conicus). Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661671: Viscous agaric (Agaricus viscidus) and glutinous agaric (Agaricus glutinosus), edible. Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4661707: Cotylorhynchus - Cotylorhynchus was a large mammalian reptile (Synapside, Pelycosaur) living herbivorous from early Permian to mid-Permian (299 to 265 million years). They were the largest terrestrial animals of their time, measuring 6 metres long and weighing two tons. Giant, 20-foot-long and one-ton synapsids of the genus Cotylorhynchus forage in an Early Permian swamp 275 million years ago in what is today North America. Also in this image on the lower left is a 3-foot long lepospondyl amphibian of the genus Diplocaulus. Vegetation includes ferns and horsetails in the foreground and on the horizon is a forest of ginkgos. Cotylorhynchus is the largest known non-mammalian synapsid and was the largest land animal of its time. An herbivore, Cotylorhynchus had a massive barrel-shaped body and limbs with a relatively small head, making it perhaps one of the most unattractive land animals to have ever walked the Earth. Standing about 6 feet tall at the shoulder Cotylorhynchus probably had no predators; even the fierce Dimetrodon (also a synapsid) weighed little more than 300 pounds compared to Cotylorhynchus' 2,000 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4661798: Postosuchus - Postosuchus was a 5-metre-long, 4-ton Triassic predator living in North America. He is a close relative of the crocodiles we know today. A 12-foot-long, 1,000 pound rauisuchian archosaur of the genus Postosuchus wanders a hilltop 220 million years ago in what is today Texas. Surrounding the Postosuchus are various cycads, ferns, and tree-like Glossopteridales. With a crocodile-like body and tyrannosaurlike head, Postosuchus was likely a fierce apex predator that preyed upon Dicynodonts and other animals smaller than itself, including some of the first dinosaurs / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661806: Hydne sinuous (Hydnum repandum) and edible hydna (Hydnum imbricatum). Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661810: Cluster clavary (Clavaria botrytis), edible. Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661826: Shade clavary, (Clavaria umbraticola), suspect. Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661852: Conical morel (Morchella conica), edible. Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4661882: Hygrometric (Geastrum hygrometricum) and blackish bovist (Bovista nigrescens), edible. Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4661948: Nothosaurus - A nothosaurus mirabilis tries to catch a fish (saurichthys). The genus Nothosaurus, meaning mixed lezard, belongs to the family Nothosaurides (Sauropterygia), who lived in the Triassic from -240 to -210 million years. The amphibious Triassic reptile Nothosaurus mirabilis gathers itself to launch after the fish Saurichthys on a shore of what is now Germany. Nothosaurus mirabilis is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile from the Triassic period, approximately 240-210 million years ago, with fossils being distributed from North Africa and Europe to China. It is the best known member of the nothosaur order. Its name means False lizard / Bridgeman Images

FLO4662018: English dandies in side-buttoned fencing jackets, gloves and masks at a fencing school, 1820. Jerry's admiration of Tom in an Assault with Mr. O'Shaunessy at the Rooms in St. James's Street. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659541: Tufted cocks, Lophornis ornatus (Tufted-necked hummingbirds, Trochilus ornatus). Male and female. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822., Latham, John (1740-1837) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659567: Black wheatear, Oenanthe leucura (White tailed thrush, Turdus leucurus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822., Latham, John (1740-1837) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4659652: Earth: Melting Arctic Ocean Ice - Image obtained on 16 June 2001 by the Landsat satellite - 7 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659668: Beautiful firetail, Stagonopleura bella (Nitid grosbeak, Loxia nitida). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822., Latham, John (1740-1837) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659701: Red-and-black grosbeak, Periporphyrus erythromelas. Near threatened. (Black-headed grosbeak, Loxia erythromelas.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822., Latham, John (1740-1837) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659760: Cresson Alenois (Lepidium sativum) Coloured copper prints from a drawing by B. Thanner by Johannes Zorn “Afbeeldingen der Artseny-Gewassen”” (Icons de plantes medicinales) published by Jan Christiaan Sepp in 1796. Zorn (1739-1799) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe looking for medicinal plants. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659790: Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus. Endangered. (Orangutan, Pithecus satyrus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659808: Pure-faced langur, Trachypithecus vetulus. Endangered. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4659867: Red-tailed black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii, and Pesquet's parrot, Psittrichas fulgidus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4659888: China - Yellow River Delta 1989 - China - Yellow River delta in 1989 - The Huang He is the second longest river in China and the most sediments-loaded river in the world. On his journey from Tibet, he erodes more than a million tons of sediments every year and takes on alluvial or his nickname the Yellow River. It flows into the Yellow Sea, via the Gulf of Bohai, where its delta extends over 36,000 km. Image obtained by the Landsat 5 satellite in 1989. China's Huang He (Yellow River) is the most sediment - filled river on Earth. In the lower reaches, where the current slows, the natural accumulation of sediment in the riverbed has caused the river to change course often in the past. Since the mid-nineteenth century, however, the lower reaches of the river and the delta have been extensively engineered to control flooding and to protect coastal development. This natural - color image from Nasa's Landsat 5 satellite shows the Yellow River Delta at the river mouth in 1989. In 1989, the river's main channel emptied into the Bohai Sea in a southeast - bending arc / Bridgeman Images