Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer mb-code BK004454 On the first he observed

On the first he observed the transit of Venus and charted the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia

Monument to Edmund Crouchback

England footballer manager Alf Ramsey answers reporters' questions at the team base the day before the World Cup Final against West Germany

from a Japanese trades encyclopedia

British soldiers searching captured German prisoners

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer mb-code BK004454 On the first he observedGiovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer, (c1900). Portrait of Schiaparelli (1835 1910) and a lunar landscape with the rising of the sun. Trade card, one from a series on astronomers produced by Liebig extract of meat, (c1900).