Images Dated 16th November 2004

Laura Ashley Fashion farmers wife Lorraine Brewster

Laura Ashley Fashion
farmers wife Lorraine Brewster and daughter Siobhan aged 4 Mother wearing all blue hat t shirt and white striped shorts, child wearing flowery summer dress and pink hat
mother daughter family clothing countryside

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1990s Fashion, Children, Clothing, Daffodils, Dress, Family, Fashion, Field, Flowers, Hats, Style, Women

Samuel Pierpont Langley, US aviator

Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and aviation pioneer (1834-1906). Langley was born in Massachusetts and went on to become Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887). Between 1891 and 1896, Langley built many aircraft models, trying to solve to power-to-weight problem that prevented his aerodromes from flying. Finally, he produced a steam-driven model that flew for nearly a mile. This convinced him, in 1903, to attempt to fly a full-scale version of the Langley Aerodrome. It was not a success. A second attempt was also a failure and Langley died in 1906, a broken man

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DAD-1677 FUNGI - Brown Roll-Rim, in broad-leaf woods, October

DAD-1677
FUNGI - Brown Roll-Rim, in broad-leaf woods, October
Knapp Wood Nature Reserve. E. Sussex, UK
Paxillus involutus
Favours birch and acid heathland. Found later summer to late autumn. Poisonous, possibly deadly.
David C Dixon
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