Images Dated 18th January 2007

Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur

Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur, computer artwork. T. rex was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, measuring 5 metres tall and weighing 7 tonnes. It lived in North America and Asia during the late Cretaceous period, between 85 and 65 million years ago. A predator and scavenger, T. rex had the strongest bite of any dinosaur, with teeth that could penetrate bone

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Ice Wall. Mawson - Life and Death in Antarctica, 2008

Colour image of a wall of ice in Antarctica.The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces the gruelling experience, with similar meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically--and mentally--as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death

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Map of the Carolinas with part of Georgia (engraving)

AQS251295 Map of the Carolinas with part of Georgia (engraving) by American School, (19th century); American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; (add.info.: engraved for Dr. Gordon's History of the American War'; showing the routes of Generals Greene, Morgan and Cornwallis as well as the major battle sites of the American Revolutionary War;); A© Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society ; American, out of copyright

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