The seventy or so illustrations in this paper manuscript probably functioned in the same way as a resume or portfolio does today - to showcase Mönch's talents and abilities for prospective employers.

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The University of Hawaii at Manoa hosts an online collection of about 1,500 magic lantern slides created in the 1930s and distributed around the world to educate people about Japan. Here are a few.

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More medieval catwalk posing than stereotypical jousting scenes perhaps, this group of illustrations precedes an historically significant text, Ludwig von Eyb's 'Turnierbuch'.

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Chet Phillips imagines an alternate Victorian Era that's not only filled with rayguns and steam-powered contraptions, but also shows that technology being operated by furry-faced monkeys.

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The images above (many are details) come from three books -- ** Early Celtic Designs by I Stead & K Hughes, from the British Museum Pattern Books ** A Treasury of Celtic Design by C Davis. ** Celtic Borders & Motifs by L Davies from Design Source Books.

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A University of Tokyo research team led by professor/computer graphic artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi is developing robots designed to imitate primitive life forms.

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This album of heraldic devices or family crests of the noble families of Verona and Vicenza is one of a series of fifteen manuscripts prepared for Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria in the 16th century. So far, only two of these works have been digitised.

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To be honest, my attention was primarily drawn - at first - not to the jewellery itself, but to the borders and frame decorations.

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Isabeau de Roubaix was the last of a noble, northern French family whose fortune had been established by her grandfather, Jean de Roubaix, counsellor to Philip the Good. Isabeau was the châtelaine* of Roubaix and was married to Jacques de Luxembourg in 1464.

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'Monographie der Spinnen' was the first ever German monograph on spiders and one of the earliest publications anywhere devoted solely to spiders.

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This wonderful watercolour sketch album of the Court livery (the distinctive costumes of the nobility) relates to the reigns of Counts Wilhelm IV and Albrecht V in 16th century Bavaria.

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These striking and sometimes fanciful hand-coloured 18th century engravings were published in Germany in 1777 in a book called 'Piscium, Serpentum, Insectorum, Aliorumque Nonnullorum Animalum'.

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IT IS one of the most instantly recognisable images in the world and has adorned the walls of countless student dormitories and appeared on millions of T-shirts.

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The identity crisis of Quark Inc., creator of the former leader in layout programs QuarkXPress, seems to go deeper than anticipated.

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