Photo Researchers ftp March 2011

Jacques Cartier 1491-1557.

Like the crusaders, the Muslims believed they were fighting for God. They went into battle with standards carrying inscriptions from their Holy book,...

William Blake (Nov. 28, 1757-12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Though he was largely unrecognized during his life, he is n...

Poet Laureate (1688) John Dryden ( August 9, 1631 - May 1, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright.

Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642 - 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.

Nicholas Rowe (20 June 1674 - 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715.

Poet Laureate, Robert Southey. 1813-1843.

William Wordsworth, poet laureate, 1843-1850. Wordsworth was a romantic poet who, with the help of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the age of Romant...

Dr. Robert Bridges, appointed poet laureate July 16, 1913.

Poet Laureate, Laurence Eusden, 1718-1730.

Poet Laureate Colley Cibber, 1730-1757.

Poet Laureate Colley Cibber, 1730-1757.

Poet Laureate, W.M. Whitehead 1757-1785.

Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 - 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of Englan...

A photograph of Milton Bradley, (November 8, 1836- May 30, 1911) an American game inventor and pioneer in launching the board game industry with Milto...

A single soldier stands guard over the empty theatre in which Lincoln was killed. This photograph, taken the day after the murder, were recently prese...

Sir William Davenant (babtised March 3, 1606 - April 7, 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, an English poet and playwright. Poet Laureate, 1637-1668.

Henry Bergh (August 29, 1811 - March 12, 1888) founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Bergh also prompted the...

English Poet Elizabeth Barett Browning,(1806 - 1861).

Emily Jane Bront? (July 1818 - 19 December 1848). An English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights. Emily was the sec...

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English novelist. She wrote Jane Eyre and Villette, among other novels.

Portrait of John Wilkes Booth.

Catherine Booth, who founded the Salvation Army with her husband, WIlliam.

The pair of female pirates. Anne Bonny, left and Mary Reade, right. Never more than a minor nuisance, the trio of Bonny, Reade and Rackam were famou...

An illustration of Marcus Junius Brutus.

Sebastian Cabot (1484-1557) was an explorer in both English and Spanish service. He explored the Rio de la Plata region of Brazil.

City walls at the point where they were breached during the First Crusade on July 15th, 1099. Jerusalem, Israel.