Images Dated 7th August 2011

Man riding on a steam rocket

The Flight of Intellect. A comic image of a thin man riding on a steam rocket, with his top hat flying off behind him. Portrait of Mr Golightly experimenting on Mess Quick & Speed's new patent high pressure Steam Riding Rocket.
circa 1828

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1820s, 1828, Air, Comic, Experimenting, Flight, Flying, Golightly, Hat, High, Humour, Intellect, Lampoon, Man, Mr, New, Patent, Pressure, Quick, Riding, Rocket, Satire, Satirical, Speed, Steam, Thin, Top, Transport, Transportation

Road through Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA

Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242, 756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The park is managed by the National Park Service

© Michael Runkel/Danita Delimont

683747569, Day, Horizontal, Nature, No People, Non Urban Scen, Outdoors, Road, Sky

HMS St Albans and USS Philippine Sea Refuel from USNS Tippecanoe

Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS ST Albans (right) takes up station for replenishment whilst USS Philippine Sea (left) has already commenced replenishing from USNS Tippecanoe (centre).
On Sunday 7th August 2011 HMS St Albans conducted a Replenishment At Sea (RAS) with USNS Tippecanoe (SIC) whilst the latter was already refuelling USS Philippine Sea in the Middle East region.
HMS St Albans is currently deployed for 6 months to the Middle East on Operation Kipion where she will carry out Counter Terrorism, Anti Narcotics and anti piracy operations

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