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Society<br>Britain, balloon at Hurlingham with 6 passengers<br><br>Grossbritannien Bevoelkerung: &quotWettbewerb im Ballonfahren. Langstreckenrennen in Hurlingham am 13. Juli. Die &quotClouth IV" ist der einzig kontinentale Ballon im Rennen. Er transportiert sechs Passagiere, Hr. und Fr. Clouth, Fr. Stevenson, Fr. Mitchell, Hr. Heyne und einen weiteren Bekannten" (Originaltext, uebersetzt aus dem Englischen)<br><br>- undatiert, vermutlich 1908

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Olympics<br>1908 Olympic Games London. Marathon. J. J. HAYES, USA, Gold Medal.

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Olympics<br>1908 Olympic Games London. Marathon. USA's J. J. HAYES, Gold Medal, carried on a table with the trophy.

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1908 Olympic Games London. Swimming. 400 m., 1500 m., 4x200 m. Freestyle. HENRY TAYLOR, Great Britain, Gold Medal in all 3.

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Society<br>New York, black nanny sitting with white child on a park bench, 1908<br><br>Schwarze Amme sitzt mit einem weissen Kind auf einer Parkbank<br><br>um 1903<br>Foto: Filip Kester

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Olympics<br>1908 Olympic Games London. Marathon. The start of the Marathon race at the East Terrace, Windsor Castle.

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Society<br>Paris, man checking address book<br><br>Mann schaut in ein Adressbuch der Firma Didot-Bottin<br>- 1908<br><br>Aufnahme: Charles Delius<br><br>erschienen in Berliner Volkszeitung 14.10.1908<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

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Sport & Leisure<br>New York to Paris<br><br>Berlin Motorsport, Autofahrt New York - Paris, Oberleutnant Hans Koeppen: Der Protos Wagen in Berlin<br>- 1908 (ver”ff. BM, 28.01.1908 und BM, 12.02.1933)

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Events<br>Building the Manhatten Bridge, 1908<br><br>Bauerarbeiter beim Bau der BrÅcke <br><br>1908<br>Foto: Filip Kester

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Events<br>Suffragettes in New York city, 1908<br><br>Suffragetten USA (Bewegung fuer das Frauenwahlrecht)<br>- Ansammlung von Maennern vor einem Buero der Suffragetten in New York City<br><br>- 16.02.1908

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Events<br>The Late King Carlos I of Portugal<br>Born 28 September 1863 , assassinated 1 February 1908<br>08 February 1908

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Events<br>Assassination of King Carlos I of Portugal.  From material supplied to an artist from an eye witness of the scene in Black Horse Square during the attack on the Royal Family, 15 February 1908

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Society<br>Fire Brigade Training<br>How the men are drilled for their perilous duties . A motor steamer proceeding to a fire .<br>22 February 1908

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Sport & Leisure<br>Start of the Great Motor Race from New York to Paris . Six cars entered the 20 000 mile contest - three French , one German , one Italian and one American . Their route is via Alaska , the Bering Straits and the trackless wastes and frozen tundra of Siberia , where the climate is Arctic in its severity .<br>29 February 1908

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Society<br>Lancashire Cotton. Spinners buying cotton in a Liverpool Cotton brokers office<br>29 February 1908

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Society<br>Lancashire Cotton. The Futures Market , a daily scene at the Liverpool Cotton Exchange<br>29 February 1908

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Events <br>Right Hon Herbert Henry Asquith KC MP<br>After Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigned as prime minister 08 April 1908 Mr Asquith succeeded him . Campbell-Bannerman later died on 22 April<br>11 April 1908

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Events<br>Winston Churchill promoted to first Cabinet position.  After Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigned as prime minister 08 April 1908 (dying very soon afterwards) the Right Hon Herbert  Asquith succeeded him.  Winston Churchill was appointed President of the Board of Trade<br>18 April 1908

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Events<br>Massive meteor in Siberia.  A huge celestial body known as the Tungus meteorite fell on this spot in Siberia in 1908. Its enigma defies researchers from all branches of science to this day. The comprehensive Tungus Meteorite Expedition has its laboratory on this taiga lake near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river.

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Events<br>Massive meteor in Siberia.  Soviet researcher A.Zolotov (left) sampling soil at the impact site of the Tunguska meteorite.

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Olympics<br>Final of all-comers' singles 1908 : A. W. Gore v. H. Roper Barrett.<br>A. W. Gore 1901 - Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore (born January 2, 1868 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire - died 1 December 1928 in Kensington, London) was a male tennis player from Great Britain. He is best known for his two gold medals at the London Olympics in 1908 winning the men's indoor singles and the men's indoor doubles.  He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.<br>Herbert Roper Barrett, KC (born November 24, 1873 in Upton, Essex - died July 27, 1943 in Horsham, Sussex) was a tennis player from Great Britain.  At the London Olympics in 1908 he won a gold medal in the men's indoor doubles event with Arthur Gore. They also won the doubles in Wimbledon in 1909. In 1912 and 1913 he won the Wimbledon doubles yet again.<br>©TopFoto

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Sport & Leisure<br>Wimbledon. Final of Ladies' Singles 1908 : Miss A. M. Morton v. Mrs. Sterry (Sterry won).<br><br>©TopFoto

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Events<br>The Honourable J. X. Merriman, became Prime Minister of Cape Colony in 1908, until the Union of South Africa in 1910.<br><br>8 February 1908

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Society<br>c.1908. Guisborough Market Place, North Yorkshire.<br>Picturesque town where the grocer sold famous Yorkshire hams and bacon. The cobbles still survive.

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Science and Technology<br>Ilya Ilich Mechnikov ( Elie Metchnikoff 1845-1916) Russian zoologist who continued Pasteur's work. Discovered phagocytes, cells which destroy infective organisms. 1908 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

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Arts<br>Cupid shooting an arrow carrying a love letter, 1908. American Valentine  card.   He stands by a red heart inscribed with a message and surrounded  by Sweet Violet (Viola odorata) which, in the language of flowers, represents Modesty. In Roman mythology C

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Events<br>French military airship La Republique on her maiden flight from Paris to Compiegne. From 'Le Petit Journal' Paris, 20 September 1908

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Events<br>Belgian Suffragettes upsetting ballot boxes. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 17 May 1908

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Science & Technology<br>Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) New Zealand-born physicist. Subatomic physics. Nobel prize for Chemistry 1908. Tinted photograph

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Science & Technology<br>Paul Ehrlich  (1854-1915) German bacteriologist. Haematology: Chemotherapy: Immunology. Shared Nobel prize for medicine or physiology with Mechnikov in 1908.

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Events<br>Pu-Yi (Hsuan T'ung) 1906-1967. Last Emperor of China 1908-1912. Picture published 1910. Halftone.

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Arts<br>'Pitcher and Bowls', 1908. Pablo Picasso from his African-influenced Period. State Museum of New Western Art, Moscow. ARTIST'S COPYRIGHT MUST ALSO BE CLEARED. <br>Credit: Art Media / HIP / TopFoto

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Arts<br>'Still Life', 1908. Francis Picabia's early works were in the Impressionist style. After 1912 he developed a style of abstract cubism with orphic elements contibuting to Dadaism. ARTIST'S COPYRIGHT MUST ALSO BE CLEARED. <br>Credit: Art Media / HIP / TopFoto

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Society<br>Advertisement for Haskell Royal golf balls, 1908. &quotHaskell Royal 2/- (shillings) each". An advertisement showing a policeman inspecting a golf ball. From &quotGolf Illustrated", 23 October 1908. <br>Credit: The British Library / HIP / TopFoto

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Olympics<br>Cheated of his gold medal.  London 1908 - Dorando of Italy, first in the Marathon, was helped over the line by hasty aides and therefore disqualified.<br>©TopFoto

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Olympics<br>Leon Meredith<br>Cyclist in the 1908 Olympic Games in London<br>

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Society<br>Welsh folk custom, Mari Lwyd. Decorated horse's head carried from house to house at Christmas/New Year.<br>Photographed c.1908 at Llangynwyd, Glamorgan, South Wales.

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Arts<br>Kenneth Grahame<br>author of 'Wind in the Willows'

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Arts<br>Mr Toad from 'Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame

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Society<br>China, ca 1908. Two men eating.<br>©Steve Warmowski / The Image Works

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Arts<br>FAIR SISTERS THREE - THE SISTERS ATHLETA<br>Alhambra Theatre - London 1908<br>Credit: Mander & Mitchenson / ArenaPAL

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Events<br>Mugshot of the police of Baku of Joseph Stalin (Azerbaidjan), after his second arrest. March, 1908. <br> <br>

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Events<br>The first Diplodocus skeleton is assembled in 1908, funded by Andrew Carnegie.  Casts are made for major natural history museums.  This cast was unveiled on June 15, 1908, by President Fallières, Paris, Natural history museum.

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Arts <br>&quotLa Table de toilette dit aussi la glace" (1908) by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Paris, Orsay's museum.

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Events<br>Niger (Africa). Soldiers of the Mouret column looking for water in an &quotabankor". Crossing of the Aïr, 1908.<br><br>December 1908 Colonel Henri Gouraud assembled a column of 800 infantrymen and 200 cavalry to march on Adrar where nomadic warriors have taken refuge between raids that claimed the lives of 3 French officers, 5 NCOs and 134 soldiers in Mauritania.  France and Morocco were engaged in a conflict over Mauritania (now an Islamic republic in North West Africa)

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Science & Technology<br>Steam tram &quotLouvre-Versailles". Paris, 1908.

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Science & Technology<br>Electric tram &quotLouvre-Versailles". Paris, 1908.

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Events<br>Revolution in Haïti. The president Alexis Nord protected by the minister of France who covers with French flag. &quotLe Petit Journal", December 1908.

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Arts<br>Winster Morris Dancers, Winster Wakes, Derbyshire, 4 July 1908. Photograph taken during one of British musicologist Cecil Sharp's (1859-1924) expeditions to collect English folk music and dances. The Morris is a traditional English folk dance in which participants wear white trousers and shirts, decorated hats, and bells, rosettes, or ribbons.

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Events<br>The funeral of the late Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman in Scotland: The procession passing through Meigle Village.<br>2 May 1908<br>

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Sport & Leisure<br>The surprise winner of the Derby and the Oaks, Signorinetta led in by her owner Chevalier Ginistrelli, the free and easy sportsman.<br>13 June 1908.

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Sport & Leisure<br>1930 Don Bradman (born 1908) after reaching a double century in his last test at the Oval

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Events<br>Houses destroyed in the Palmi earthquake

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Society<br>Rise of anarchism - Arrest of an anarchist

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Society<br>A group of boxers getting ready for a match

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Society<br>Out for a drive: Ladies and gentlemen in a carriage in a park in Paris.

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Events<br>The first Italian dirigible

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Society<br>Colonolism.  Portrait of a group of Ghanaians with a white hunter. At the center of the group two men display the wild pig that has just been killed

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Events<br>Half-length portrait of the King of Bulgaria Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg

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Society<br>A group of bathers photographed under a pier with bathing huts, Italy

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Society<br>Colonialism.  Reading lesson in a school at the oasis of Agram or Fachi (Niger) around 1908-1909

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Events<br>The FBI was founded in 1908<br>Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Faced witha steep rise in crime, the battalions of the FBI are waging all-out war.  Their strongest weapon is science.  Reading the whorls of the fingerprints.

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Events<br>The FBI was founded in 1908.<br>Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Faced with a steep rise in crime, the battalions of the FBI are waging all-out war.  Their strongest weapon is science.

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Events<br>The FBI was founded in 1908<br>Knowledge of the use of the pistol is one of the most important requisites of FBI investigation special agents.  This class is practising the difficult feat of firing from the hip.  A firearm instructor is assigned to evert three agents at the  training school to insure thorogh instruction.

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Science & Technology<br>Samuel Cody's army plane - British Army Aeroplane No.1<br><br>24th October 1908

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Society<br>Infants Hospital, Vincent Square, London<br>Nurse weighing a baby and other mothers waiting their turn<br><br>c 1908<br><br><br><br><br>

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Olympics<br>London Olympic Games 1908<br>mens 100m<br>pic Professional Sport

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Olympics<br>London Olympic Games 1908<br>The crowd at White City<br>pic Professional Sport

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Olympics<br>London Olympic Games 1908<br>Reg Walker wins 100m for men<br>pic Professional Sport

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Events<br>Massive meteor in Siberia.  Tunguska - mystery explosion over the Siberian forest, 1908.  Amongst many theories and explanations, some believe that it may have been an extraterrestial visitor that caused the damage. ©TopFoto/Fortean<br>

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Events<br>The Portuguese Assassination: Authentic drawing from our special artist's sketch in Lisbon.<br>The Assassination of the king and Crown Prince of portugal, and the death of the assassin Buica.<br>15 February 1908

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Events<br>The assassination of a great sportsman: Carlos I., King of Portugal.<br>A characteristic portrait of the late Dom Carlos.<br>8 February 1908

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Events<br>Tunguska after the 1908 explosion<br>On June 30th, 1908, something exploded 5-8 km above the Stony Tunguska river. About 2150 square kilometres of Siberian taiga were devastated and 80 million trees were overthrown. Up to now, it is not clear whether the great explosion was due to a comet or an asteroid or something else.

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Events<br>Massive meteor in Siberia, 1908. <br>Leonid Kulik 1883-1942<br>Russian meteorite researcher, trained as a forester. Led the first recorded expedition to investigate the Tunguska impact, and several further expeditions.  Published the accounts of flattened trees and small craters.  An estimated 80 million trees were flattened.

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Sport & Leisure<br>Henri Cornet, French racing cyclist, in the Tour de France 1908.     BRA-36898

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Society<br>Mrs. Ary, fortune-teller. 1908.     BRA-42926

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Science & Technology<br>Dunlop pneumatics factories furnaces. Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), 1908.     BRA-41833

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Science & Technology<br>Dunlop pneumatics factories workshop. Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), 1908.     BRA-41835

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Olympics<br>&quotDaily Promenade" employees toasting to the victory of the marathon runner Siret at the Olympic Games of London. 1908.     BRA-41909

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Events<br>Wounded in a boat-hospital. France, 1908.     BRA-39639

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Society<br>Feminine fasfion. France. 1908.     BRA-41580

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Events<br>Departure of the Charcot's mission for the South pole. Jean Charcot on the deck of the &quotPourquoi pas?".  Le Havre, 1908.     BRA-39909

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Events<br>Discovery, in Big Dry Creek Mountains (USA), of a skeleton of Tyrannausaurus. Packing of the skeleton plastered blocks on the spot. 1908.     BOY 7490

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Events<br>Earthquake of Messina (Sicily, Italy), 1908. The Vittorio Emmanuelle avenue.     BRA-43396

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Science & Technology<br>Wright brothers's biplane. Le Mans (Sarthe), 1908.     RV-313093

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Events<br>Lunch offered by the Sultan to the representatives and senators (in the Beyler Bey palace) on the occasion of the completion of the parliamentary transfer and of the anniversary of the constitution, imposed by the Young Turks. Turkey, 1908. HRL-612845

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Science & Technology<br>Small power hammer for the manufacture of the agricultural instruments. France, on 1908. BOY-2062

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Science & Technology<br>Inside of the factory of letters sent by pneumatic tube Dunlop to Argenteuil ( Val-d'Oise). On 1908. BRA-41832

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Society<br>Porter of bread. Paris, on 1908. BOY-1348

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Science & Technology<br>Aviation workshops &quotVoisin". Wings making. 1908. BOY-2064

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Science & Technology<br>Aeroplane Wright on the rail of launch. Auvours ( Sarthe's ) camp, in September 1908. BOY-2029

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Society<br>Skier. Chamonix ( High Savoy), January, 1908. RV-335896

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Society<br>Fair of the Invalides. Steam roller coasters. Paris, on 1908. BOY-1655

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Olympics<br>The American runner Hague, winner(conqueror) of the marathon of the Olympic Games of London after the disqualification of the Italian Pietri Dorando. On 1908. RV-336431

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Society<br>Horse-racings to Trouville ( calvados) in 1908. The stand of the ladies. RV-305117

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Science & Technology<br>Flight of Wright's aeroplane in Auvours ( France's ) camp, on September 21, 1908. RV-314736

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Science & Technology<br>Very early Phone box in Stockholm (Sweden), in 1908.   Public telephone kiosks caught on in the early 1900s.<br><br><br>BRA-39277

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Events<br>Iran, Kadjar or Qadjar dynasty. The shah Mohammed-Ali (sitting down) with to his left the crown prince, the future shah Ahmad-Mirza ( 1908-1925 ). Taken in 1908 - only one year later in 1909, a coup against shah Mohammed-Ali crowned Ahmad-Mirza, the last of the Qadjar dynasty. HRL-630192

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Society<br>Trunks of brought down and sawed(shot down and sawed) sequoias, in California (United States), in 1908. BOY-2272

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Events<br>Lenin in Capri at Gorki's (up, on the left), playing chess with Bogdanov, in 1908.

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Arts<br>Simone de Beauvoir ( born 1908-died 1986 ), woman of letters and French writer. November, 1945. HRL-512239

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Science & Technology<br>Wilbur Wright ( 1867-1912 ), American airman, on the aeroplane, in Auvours's camp, in Champagné (Sarthe), 1908. FA-17482

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Arts<br>Mark Twain ( 1835-1910 ), journalist and American novelist, in suit of Honorary doctor of the university of Oxford where it was received, in 1908. RV-649497

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Science & Technology<br>Wilbur Wright ( 1867-1912 ), American airman, in the commands of a biplane in wings gauchissables, in Auvours ( Sarthe's ) camp, summer, 1908. RV-445436

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Sport & Leisure<br>Tour de france 1908. Departure on the Bineau bridge. Paris.

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Sport & Leisure<br>Isling, winner(conqueror) of the international championship of ski. Chamonix, on 1908. BRA-32542

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Events<br>Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austro-Hungarian empire, taken from Turkey and to the great alarm of Russia.  <br><br>The crisis puts Europe on the road to World War I.<br><br>The alarm clock of the question of East: independence of Bulgaria, Austrian conquests. " Le Petit Journal ", in October 18, 1908. RVB-03721

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Society<br>River and canal craft. Washing. France, 1908.

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Events<br>Celebrating the 1904 Entente cordiale. Britania and Marianne with regional hat. English postcard published for the franco-british exhibition of London (1908).

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Events<br>Celebrating the Entente cordiale. English postcard published for the franco-british exhibition of London (1908).

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Science & Technology<br>Aeroplane monoplane Blériot. The motor Antoinette 16 cylindres - 60 HP. 1908.

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Science & Technology<br>Aeroplane monoplane Blériot. Fuselage 380 KG. 1908.

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Arts<br>E.M. Forster (1879-1970), English writer.  Wrote A Room with a View in 1908    RV-362394<br>

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Science & Technology<br>Henri Farman ( 1874-1958 ), French airman, making a success, on Nearby airplane, of first flight in Europe on a kilometre in closed circuit, during the great prize for aviation Deutsch-Archdeacon. Issy-les-Moulineaux, January 13, 1908. FA-25577

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Science & Technology<br>The &quotOmnia, cinéma Pathé", Paris, 5 boulevard Montmartre, in October 1908 (this was the world's first cinema, it opened in 1906). From left to right: (with walking sticks): Serge Sandberg, Georges Cerf, Edmond Benoit-Levy, Léon Madieu, (with arms crossed): Paul Fournier, director of the establishment. At the window: Charles Delac, Paul Kastor and Bony (general secretary of the Omnia).     LL-2215

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Events<br>Aurignacian: the Venus of Willendorf one of the best known fertility figures<br>The most famous early image of a human, a woman, is the so-called &quotVenus" of Willendorf, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy [see BIBLIOGRAPHY] in an Aurignacian loess deposit in a terrace about 30 meters above the Danube near the town of Willendorf in Austria. <br>The earliest notice of its discovery appeared in a report by the Yale anthropologist George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947) who happened to be in Vienna in the summer of 1908. Although the greater part of the collection of finds from the site had not yet been unpacked, MacCurdy reported excitedly that before he left Vienna Szombathy had very kindly shown him a single remarkable specimen - a human figurine, full length, carved out of stone [see BIBLIOGRAPHY]. <br>The statuette, which measures about 11.25 centimeters in length, is now in Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum. It was carved from a fine porous oolitic limestone not found in the region and so must have been brought to the area from another location. It may well be the case that the carving, which was presumably done with flint tools, was not done locally. <br>When first discovered the Venus of Willendorf was thought to date to approximately 15,000 to 10,000 BCE, or more or less to the same period as the cave paintings at Lascaux in France. In the 1970s the date was revised back to 25,000-20,000 BCE, and then in the 1980s it was revised again to c. 30,000-25,000 BCE A study published in 1990 of the stratigraphic sequence of the nine superimposed archaeological layers comprising the Willendorf deposit, however, now indicates a date for the Venus of Willendorf of around 24,000-22,000 BCE. <br>Her great age and pronounced female forms quickly established the Venus of Willendorf as an icon of prehistoric art. She was soon included in introductory art history textbooks where she quickly displaced other previously used examples of Paleolithic art.

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Society<br>Beating the Bounds ceremony, Merton Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1908. A group of children and other parish people in the street holding willow sticks taking part in the Beating the Bounds ceremony that takes place on Ascension Day, derived from the earlier ceremony of Rogationtide. <br>Credit: Reproduced by permission of English Heritage / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>Belle Gunness, farmwife believed to have murdered 28 gullible suitors, before disappearing. <br>28 April 1908

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Events<br>Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragettes, in prison dress, 1908. Emmeline Pankhurst (1857-1918) and her daughter Christabel (1880-1958), were among the leaders of the campaign to secure the vote for women. Their militant tactics resulted in their being arrested on numerous occasions (12 times in one year in Emmeline's case). In 1908, the women served 2 months apiece in Holloway Prison after leading a deputation to Parliament and inciting the crowd to 'rush' the House of Commons. <br>Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>Winston Churchill married Miss Clementine<br>Hozier in 1908

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Science & Technology<br>Invention by Wilbur Atwater An American scientist who was the first to apply chemistry to the study of food <br>1908

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Science & Technology<br>Wright Brothers demostrate one of their first planes in France 1908

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Arts<br>Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in a scene from the film &quotA Room With A View", based on the 1908 book by E M Forster<br>1987

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Science & Technology<br>The Henry Ford workshop.

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Sport & Leisure<br>New York to Paris Car Rally - 1908

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Sport & Leisure<br>New York to Paris Car Rally - 1908

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Sport & Leisure<br>New York to Paris Car Rally - 1908<br>The start of the race 12th February 1908

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Olympics<br>Halswell winning the 400 metres at the 1908 Olympic games<br>in London

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Science & Technology<br>Henry Ford 1908, Experimental Tractor

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Olympics<br>Olympic Games London 1908<br>View of the marathon passing through an English town

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Events<br>Voting to elect the first Turkish Government<br>1908

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Sport & Leisure<br>The Motor race round half the world: The start from Times Square, New York. <br>29 February 1908

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Science & Technology<br>Sir Ernest Rutherford Physicis and Lady  Rutherford and Niels Bohr and Mrs Bohr

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Events<br>Massive meteor in Siberia.  80 million trees in the Tunguska Forest were flattened by blast, 30 June 1908.

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Arts<br>E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster, 1879-1970), English novelist.  Wrote A Room with a View , 1908.

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Events<br>Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, lst Viscount Baden-Powell, English soldier. Baden-Powell (1857-1941) became famous as the defender of Mafeking in the Boer War (1899-1902). He later founded the Boy Scouts (1908), Girl Guides (1910) and Wolf Cubs (1916). He is seen here in Scout uniform. <br>Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto

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Arts<br>Wind in the Willows Book Illustration rat and mole

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Olympics<br>Shooting at  the Olympic Games  1908 London

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Olympics<br>Smithsons (USA) winner of 110  metres hurdles in 15 seconds at the Olympic Games 1908 London

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Olympics<br>M W Sheppard (USA) winning the 1,500 metres   the Olympic Games  1908 London

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Olympics<br>Official program cover for the Olympic Games  1908 London

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Science & Technology<br>The world's first light aeroplane.  The Demoiselle was built by Santos-Dumont in 1908.  The use of bamboo and the system of staying made this aeroplane one of the lightest and simplest to construct of its time.  It weighed 242 lb.

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Olympics<br>Olympic Games 1908 HRH The Princess of Wales at the Start of the Marathon Race Windsor

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Olympics<br>Olympic Games 1908 Marathon Race

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Olympics<br>London  Olympic Games 1908  Miss Q Newall (Great Britain) winner of the National Round

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Olympics<br>Olympic Games 1908  Final of the 200 metres breaststroke in the swimming pool set in the middle of the athletics arena Shepherd's Bush London

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Olympics<br>London  Olympic Games 1908   Martin Sheridan (United States) winner of the Discus Greek Style

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Events<br>Enver Pasha 1881 - 1922<br>Turkish soldier and politican<br>Leader in the 1908 revolution of Young Turks<br>He steered the Turkish government into a secret alliance with Germany directed against Russia in August 1914.<br>

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Science & Technology<br>Samuel Franklin Cody, the first man to make an officially recorded aeroplane flight in Great Britain in 1908

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Events<br>Massive meteor in Siberia. The Great Siberian Explosion. the tree stump which was thought to prove the explosion was not caused by a meteorite (linked to disproving suspected crater) 1908

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Arts<br>Tolstoy photographed in colour<br>Lev Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana. May 23, 1908. A very early example of colour photography in Russia by Yevgeny Kassin.

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Events<br>Abdul Hamid's change of tactic.  His voluntary reception of young Turks and Balkan Committee 1908

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Events<br>Brotherly love between the boycotters and the boycotted. Turkish and Austrian officers fraternising in Novi Bazar 1908

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Olympics<br>London Olympic Games 1908. Martin Sheridan (United States) winner of the Discus, Greek Style. The Olympic Games page 72.

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Arts<br>Edward Morgan Forster February (1879-1970). English novelist, concerned with the interplay of personality and the conflict between convention and instinct.  His novels include A Room with a View 1908, Howards End 1910, and A Passage to India 1924 - photo taken in 1969

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Events<br>Austrian soldiers in Bosnia/Herzegovina.  Austria-Hungarian empire annexed Bosnia Herzegovina from the Ottoman empire in 1908, infuriating the Russians and provoking serb terrorist bomb tactics.  The crisis eventually led to the Balkan conflict and WW1

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Science & Technology<br>Henry Ford with first motor car and model T

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Society<br>1908 New York. Boy selling umbrellas in Lower East Side.<br>

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Sport & Leisure<br>Automobile gymkhana Ostend 1908. &quotCar no 35, reaching for another drink"

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Society<br>Ostend Race course May 1908 &quotGossiping"

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Society<br>Ostend Race course May 1908 &quotMy Fair Lady"<br>

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Science & Technology<br>Orville Wright 1908, Virginia: Testing the new Wright Brothers Biplane.<br>  <br><br><br> <br>

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Events<br>Arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst, February, 1908. From The Suffragette Movement. An intimate account of persons and ideals by E Sylvia Pankhurst. [1931]. <br>Credit: The British Library / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>Christabel Pankhurst at Peckham By-Election, London, March, 1908. From The Suffragette Movement. An intimate account of persons and ideals by E Sylvia Pankhurst. [1931]. <br>Credit: The British Library / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>Crowds passing the Houses of Parliament en route to Women's Sunday, Westminster, London, 21st June 1908.      <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>'General' Mrs Drummond in a boat opposite the terrace of the House of Commons, 1908. She is on the far right of the picture addressing MPs and inviting them to Women's Sunday in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908.   'General' Mrs Drummond in a boat opposite the terrace of the House of Commons.<br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>Mary Leigh (left) and Edith New (right) on their release from Holloway Gaol on 22nd August 1908. Smiling, they greet the crowds that have gathered to 	celebrate their release. The two women, who had both given up their teaching careers to become involved in the 	campaign, had carried out the first window-smashing attack. On 30th June they had broken windows at 	No 10 Downing Street in protest at the way fellow demonstrators had been treated by the police in 	Parliament Square, and had served nearly two months in prison.    Mary Leigh and Edith New on their release from Holloway G   <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>A meeting at Caxton Hall prior to the 'Rush the House of Commons' demonstration, October 1908. Senior WSPU 	figures address the meeting. At the desk are Mabel Tuke and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (left), and 	Sylvia Pankhurst (right). Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and 'General' Drummond were arrested 	and charged with conspiracy to incite the crowd to 'rush the House of Commons'.    A meeting at Caxton Hall prior to the 'Rush the House of C   <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>Suffragettes on their way to Women's Sunday, 21st June 1908. Crowds line the street as the suffragettes parade past, holding banners. Two banners can be seen representing the women's movement in Islington. They had no local WSPU branch, therefore joined the Euston Road contingent, and became one of seven contingents that marched on Hyde Park that day. They were accompanied by bands playing marching music and suffragette songs. This was the first major, country-wide demonstration for women's suffrage. Trains brought women from all over the country to join in. Speeches were made by the Pankhursts and other suffragettes. Between 200,000 and 300,000 people gathered in Hyde Park, making it one of the largest single demonstrations ever up to that time.     Suffragettes on their way to Women's Sunday, 21st June 1908   <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto

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Society<br><br>The Flip-Flap amusement ride, Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London, 1908. The fare was sixpence for a ride, and took three minutes and twenty seconds from one side to the other. At the 	top people could see Windsor Castle and Crystal Palace if the weather was clear. The exhibition aimed to promote the achievements of Britian and France. Pavilions and exhibition halls were built on a 140 acre site in Shepherd's Bush. The site was given the nickname White City because of the white stucco facades of all the buildings. 	When London underground opened a tube station there in the 1950s it was given this name as a reminder of the site's history.   The Flip-Flap amusement ride, Franco-British exhibition, White City   <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>The Daily Mail offices at the Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London, 1908. A white stucco building, the dome of which lit up at night. The 	exhibition aimed to promote the achievements of Britian and France. Pavilions and exhibition halls were built on 	a 140 acre site in Shepherd's Bush. The site was given the nickname White City because of the white 	stucco facades of all the buildings. When London underground opened a tube station there in the 1950s 	it was given this name as a reminder of the site's history.      The Daily Mail offices at the Franco-British Exhibition, Whit   <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto

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Events<br>Rt.Hon David Lloyd George, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. April 1908

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Events<br>Herbert Asquith, 1908

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Events<br>Mahatma Gandhi (third from left) with his colleagues outside his office, Johannesburg South Africa 1908

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Events<br>St Petersburg Finland Railway Station where Lenin arrived in a sealed train from Germany, 1908<br>

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Events<br>Ian Fleming writer 1908 - 64. Creator of the James Bond charater.

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Olympics<br>King Edward VII opens the 1908  Olympic Games, Held  in<br>London

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Arts<br>Toad in Wind in the Willows, Illustration by Ernest Shepard

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Olympics<br>Olympic Games 1908, London England.<br>White City

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Events<br>Electrifying speaker - Winston Churchill as a Liberal giving a speech in 1908

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Society<br>Botany class at a London school for girls, 1908.

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Society<br>Peeling apples 1908

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Events<br>Massive meteor in Siberia 1908.  Devastation.

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Events<br>The Young Turk Revolution. Buying Young Turk cockades<br>after the revolution. The picture is of the new Grand Vizier.<br>1908

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Society<br>Claridges Hotel, London. New Year's Eve celebrations 1908

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Events<br>Dundee, Scotland. <br>Mr Winston Churchill, Liberal candidate addressing<br>workers at a large factory, was drowned out by Miss Molony,an Irish Suffragist, ringing a hand-bell. <br>1908

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Society<br>California 1908 logging in the Humboldt Forest Giant Tree Felled by axes

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Olympics<br>1908 Olympic Games at Prince's, London.. Some of the competitors in the skating events. No 6: Ulrich Salchow of Sweden.

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Arts<br>Isadora Duncan and her school of Greek dancing<br>1908

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