RMBTKG4H–Frederick III, German Emperor (1831-1888), as Crown Prince. He was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days in 1888. He was married Princess Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and father of Kaiser William II (1859-1941). Ca. 1867.
RMC13JK6–Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), in a romanticized portrait as the LADY WITH THE LAMP, at the Crimean War hospital for British
RMC13JDF–MURDER OF EDITH CAVELL by George Bellows. Edith Cavell, an English nurse, was executed in 1915 for harboring Allied soldiers in
RMC13JKH–Fully developed human fetus in utero. Engraving from William Hunter's THE ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN GRAVID UTERUS, 1774. Hunter was appointed the physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte in 1764, who gave birth to 15 children between 1762 and 1783.
RMC13JK9–Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse, in a ward of the hospital at Scutari (across the Bosporus from Istanbul) during the Crimean War. Ward shows the results of her sanitation measures that eliminated overcrowding, and allowed in light and fresh air.
RMC13JJW–Detention room in London's Bridewell Hospital, for homeless, impoverished, and probably single or unwed mothers. British Poor Law required paupers be returned to their rural parishes, who were responsible for the local care of the poor. Before return, the women paupers and their children were detained in low stalls with hay for bedding. Drawing by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, ca. 1808.
RMBTKH55–George John Romanes (1848-1894), wrote two pioneering books on evolutionary psychology, ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE (1881) and MENTAL EVOLUTION IN MAN (1888).
RMKWD2FX–Ministers of foreign powers negotiated the ‘Boxer Protocol’ in Jan. 1901. The punitive diplomatic protocol required the execution of 10 high-ranking Chinese officials for the killing of foreigners, and fined China war reparations of $ 333 million in 1901 values (BSLOC 2017 20 38)
RMC61281–Roger Bannister crossing the finish line in three minutes and 59.4 seconds, achieving the four-minute mile, Oxford, England on May 6, 1954.
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