EVB2936594: A pregnant woman, from MANSUR'S ANATOMY, authored by the Persian scholar and physician, Mansur ibn Ilyas (c. 1370-1423). Figure showing arteries, internal organs including the liver, stomach, spleen, kidneys. The fetus is in the breach position and attached to the heart by an artery. Copy completed by Hasan ibn Ahmad, working in Isfahan, in 1488 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937472: Abe Fortas, President Lyndon Johnson's nominee to the Supreme Court at the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1965. He was confirmed but failed conformation as LBJ's 1968 nominee for Chief Justice and was forced to resign in 1969 for accepted fees while serving on the high court / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937592: Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988), American physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for the discovery of many subatomic particles. Working with his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, he applied nuclear physics to help develop the theory that an asteroid strike led to the extinction of dinosaurs. c. 1960 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937042: J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940. Under his leadership the FBI was established and over the next 32 years, he would hold the post, becoming so powerful that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson dared not fire him, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937094: Adam Worth (1844-1902), the famous thief, sits facing the Pinkerton brothers on the Hot Springs Stage. Worth is small figure on front seat. In his last years, 'the Napoleon of Crime' collaborated with Pickerton, to record the history of his life, and negotiate the return of a stolen painting, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images