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Photographs of Miss Nina Payne in the Sketch

Black and white photographs in the Sketch of Miss Nina Payne, a popular dancer, giving her Egyptian Temple dance at the Coliseum, London. The dance was described as angular yet decorative poses which are characteristic of ancient Egyptian art, and actually achieves the effect of an Egyptian frieze'. Date: 5th December 1928

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

The First Passover

The Jews are spared when a pestilence strikes Egypt, a sign that Pharaoh should allow them to leave his country : it is the first Passover, celeb- -rated annually ever after

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10191540

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Sultan Selim I conquering Egypt

Sultan Selim I, nicknamed Yavuz "the Stern", "the Steadfast" or "the Grim" (1465?-1520) - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Expanded the Empire, particularly through his conquest between 1516-1517 of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. Date: 1516

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