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ELD4840237: Queen Marie Antoinette and members of the Royal Court at a bucket session (Mesmer's bucket) The Queen is fainted - (Demonstration by Frederic Antoine Mesmer (Franz Anton Mesmer, 1733-1815), German doctor, founder of the theory of animal magnetism known as mesmerism) - Illustration from “The necklace of the queen of Alexandre Dumas pere, 1856 - (Mermerism (Animal magnetism): the queen Marie-Antoinette unconscious during a magnetic therapy session at the court) Illustration Private Collection / Bridgeman Images
IMB4841977: Sculpture depicting the goddess of Roman mythology Tellus (Tellus Mater or Terra Mater, equivalent of Gaia in Greek mythology) side of the altar Ara Pacis Augustae (the altar of Peace of Augustae) edified by the Roman Emperor Augustus between 13 and 9 BC on the Champ de Mars (Campo de Marte) in Rome to commemorate peace following the wars the Empire against Gaul and Spain. Rome, Museum of the Ara Pacis Augustae / Bridgeman Images
ETE4842061: Second World War (1939-1945): an African American Women's Army Corps battalion is in charge of the entire Postal Service of the European Theater of Operations (ETO). Two soldiers are sorting mail at the temporary battalion headquarters. Photograph taken on an American base in Great Britain, February 1945. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4842182: Second World War (1939-1945): General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander) in conversation with Connecticut Republican Representative Clare Boothe Luce, a member of the US House of Representatives Defense Committee. Photograph taken in France in December 1944. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4672775: The Bahamas satellite views - Satellite image of the Bahamas - The Bahamas viewed by the Aqua satellite on 12 February 2009. East of southern Florida, large swaths of ocean water glow peacock blue. These waters owe their iridescence to their shallow depths. Near Florida and Cuba, the underwater terrain is hilly, and the crests of many of these hills including the islands of the Bahamas. On February 12, 2009, relatively clear skies allowed the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Nasa's Aqua satellite an unobstructed view of the region. The most striking feature of this image is the Great Bahama Bank, a massive underwater hill underlying Andros Island in the west, Eleuthera Island in the east, and multiple islands in between. To the north, another bank underlies another set of islands, including Grand Bahama. The varied colors of these banks suggest their surfaces are somewhat uneven. The banks' distinct contours, sharply outlined in dark blue, indicate that the ocean floor drops dramatically around them. In fact, over the banks, the water depth is often less than 10 meters (33 feet), but the surrounding basin plunges to depths as low as 4,000 meters (13,100 feet) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4672780: Eleuthera seen from space - Eleuthera from space - Southern part of the island of Eleuthera, Bahamas. Image obtained on 16 March 2002 from the International Space Station (ISS). Southern part of Eleuthera, an island in the Bahamas. Image obtained from the International space station on March 16, 2002 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4672866: San Francisco Bay area view from space - San Francisco Bay area seen from space - San Francisco Bay area seen from space on April 17, 1998 from space shuttle Columbia. San Francisco Bay Area, California April 17, 1998. Considered one of the best natural harbors in the world, San Francisco Bay, with its various sediment patterns, can be seen in this unique near - vertical view. Surrounded by the San Francisco Metropolitan area to the west and southwest, the Berkeley and Oakland Metropolitan area to the east, and the San Jose Metropolitan (not visible on the image) to the southeast, San Francisco Bay is 50 miles (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 miles (5 to 21 km) wide. Waters of the Pacific Ocean (bottom of image) enter the bay through Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas. The world famous Golden Gate Bridge is discernible on the image connecting the two peninsulas. The bay is as deep as 100 feet (30 meters) in spots, with a channel 50 feet (15 meters) deep maintained through the sand bar off Golden Gate. The major transportation routes in all metropolitan areas are visible on this image. Also discernible is the San Mateo Bridge near the right center of the image. Just to the left of the center of the image is Treasure Island, an artificial island covering 400 acres (162 hectares). It was constructed as a site of the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939 - 1940) and became a United States Naval Base in 1941. The small white objects in the bay and entering the golden gate are ships / Bridgeman Images
PIX4672909: Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, seen from space shuttle Discovery - Lake Ontario, lake Erie seen from space shuttle - In this picture taken at sunset, water bodies stand out, relaying the light of the Sun. In the foreground is Lake Ontario with the St. Lawrence River; above, Lake Erie. Image obtained by the shuttle Discovery on October 21, 2000. The STS - 92 Space Shuttle astronauts photographed upstate New York at sunset on October 21, 2000. Water bodies (Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, the Finger Lakes, the St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers) are highlighted by sunglint (sun reflecting off the water surface), making for a dramatic and unusual regional view. The photograph was taken looking toward the southwest from southern Canada, and captures a regional smog layer extending across central New York, western Lake Erie and Ohio, and further west. The layer of atmospheric pollution layer is capped by an atmospheric inversion, which is marked by the layer of clouds at the top of the photograph / Bridgeman Images