MPX5156083: Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 Ð 8 March 1996), a.k.a. Jack Churchill, Fighting Jack Churchill and Mad Jack, a British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword. He is known for the motto "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed." Source. Wikipedia. Pictured 2nd March 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5156089: Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 Ð 8 March 1996), a.k.a. Jack Churchill, Fighting Jack Churchill and Mad Jack, a British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword. He is known for the motto "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed." Source. Wikipedia. Pictured 2nd March 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4328841: A domestic exorcism, ceremony of the oni arahi, the head of the house dressed in his finest clothes, sword on the belt, walks at midnight the pieces of his house and throws roties feves to drive out demons and attract the god of wealth and his companion, who drink a bowl of sake to the health of their host (in the background). Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in 1863-1864, published in “” Le tour du monde””” 1869, edited by Edouard Charton, edition Hachette, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
ITR4553974: Funerary tile of Canon Etienne Yvert (died 1468), in the present chapel of Sainte-Clotilde. The soul of the deceased, represented in a human form (in the centre), leaves the tomb framed by two angels. In the upper part of the slab, Christ Judge is represented according to the Revelation, holding the Book open on his knees and a double sword coming out of his mouth.The Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4563240: Sword lily, Gladiolus communis 1, Gladiolus dalenii 2, cudweed, Helichrysum luteoalbum 3, pomegranate flower, Punica granatum 4 and blood lily, Haemanthus sanguineus 5. (Gladiolus, Gladiolus affinis seu Aniholissa, Granata balaustia, Haemanthus africanus, Gnaphalium seu Helychrysum.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arena's La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta (The nature and culture of flowers physically displayed), Palermo, Italy, 1771. / Bridgeman Images
MPX5156103: Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 Ð 8 March 1996), a.k.a. Jack Churchill, Fighting Jack Churchill and Mad Jack, a British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword. He is known for the motto "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed." Source. Wikipedia. Pictured 2nd March 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images