Images Dated 21st December 2006

Trees sit in fog covered land in Leicestershire countryside

Trees sit in fog covered land in the Leicestershire countryside, central England December 21, 2006. The thick fog at many of the country's airports left many passengers fearing they will not be able to join their families abroad in time for Christmas, while others dreaming of a winter holiday on the beach have given up hope. REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN) - GM1DUFDUYMAA

DURER: MEASUREMENT. A man drawing a recumbent woman, in foreshortening through

DRER: MEASUREMENT.
A man drawing a recumbent woman, in foreshortening through a frame with a network of squares on to a paper also with squares, in order to be able to reduce or enlarge proportionally. Woodcut, c1525, by Albrecht Drer

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Kafir of the Amakosa, 1848

Kafir of the Amakosa, 1848. A man from the Amakosah people in what is now South Africa. Kafir, an offensive term, is no longer used. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848)

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