Images Dated 15th February 2008

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RMS OLYMPIC, White Star Line. View of the boat deck, looking aft, showing lifeboats and funnels. The Olympic was the first of a class of luxurious express transatlantic ocean liners, and entered service with the White Star Line in 1911 as the largest cruise liner in the world. Sister ship of the RMS Titanic, she was the only one of the class to prove a success, serving until 1935. After the Titanic sank in 1912, her stokers went on strike until sufficient lifeboats were provided for all passengers and crew. The ship was then refitted and additional safety measures installed. In 1914 the Olympic was requisitioned as a troopship, served in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, and brought US troops to Europe in 1917. She returned to civilian service in 1920. Photographed by Bedford Lemere, Southampton, October 1921

© Historic England

Forest Lobelia (Lobelia gibberoa) in the Mobuku Valley in the high mountains of the Rwenzoris

Forest Lobelia (Lobelia gibberoa) in the Mobuku Valley in the high mountains of the Rwenzoris. Giant Lobelias are often endemic to the Rwenzoris and adopted to high UV radiation, wet weather and frost, Rwenzori, Uganda

© Martin Zwick / DanitaDelimont.com

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MONOPOLY AND TARIFFS, 1888. The Consumer Consumed. American cartoon by W.A. Rogers

MONOPOLY AND TARIFFS, 1888.
The Consumer Consumed. American cartoon by W.A. Rogers, 1888, on the high prices being imposed on the American consumer as a result of monopolistic practices and government tariff policies

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