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Christmas scene from King Nutcracker by Heinrich Hoffmann, 1853 (1956)
The Thames, Twickenham, c1762 (1956)
Otto Lilienthal makes one of his last flights, 1896 (1956)
John D Rockefeller, American industrialist, late 19th century (1956)
Original Sin: The Fall of Adam and Eve, c1467-1468 (1956)
Death mask of Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence, 1492 (1956)
Freedom of the press: title page from the Areopagitica by John Milton, 1644 (1956)
Sanctity: St Francis in Meditation, 1635-1639 (1956)
Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, 1908 (1956)
Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer, 1825 (1956)
Robert Owen, Welsh-born industrialist, philanthropist and socialist, 1851 (1956)
Babur superintending in the Garden of Fidelity, 1508 (1956)
Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman, 19th century (1956)
The Nile Delta, Egypt, c1280 (1956)
Guillotine, 1956
St Helena, in Napoleons Time, 19th century (1956)
Snowdon, an Approaching Storm, 1853 (1956)
Fingals Cave, Staffa, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. 1814 (1956)
Jerusalem, 1854-1855 (1956)
Pont du Gard, Roman aqueduct, Nimes, France, (1956)
Mont Fuji, Japan, c1823 (1956)
Gordale Scar, West Yorkshire, c1811 (1956)
Interior of a cave temple, Ellora, Maharashtra, India, 19th century (1956)
The Gate of El Metwalli, Cairo, Egypt, c1829 (1956)
Toledo, Spain, 1597-1599 (1956)
The Piazza, Venice, c1756 (1956)
Witch hunt: witches, c1799 (1956)
Witch hunt: The Bewitched Groom, 16th century (1956)
Superman : Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 19th century (1956)
Vitalism: Henri Bergson, French philosopher, early 20th century, (1956)
Wide open spaces: James Fenimore Cooper, American author, 19th century (1956)
Total war: What Old Mirrors They Make Nowadays, 1868 (1956)
Universal language: the first page of the Bible in Esperanto, 1956
The birth of the Virgin, c1520 (1956)
Asceticism: a group of Mughal ascetics, (1956)
Nihilism: Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 19th century (1956)
Chivalry and courtly love: Flemish parade shield, c1400 (1956)
Hero worship: detail from The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799 (1956)
Nemesis or Good Fortune, c1502 (1956)
Nature: cloud study, c1822 (1956)
Mrs Grundy : portrait of a Londoner, 19th century (1956)
Elixir of Life: The Alchemist, 1558 (1956)
Deism: Lord Herbert of Cherbury, c1603-1605 (1956)
Enthusiasm: Edward Irving, Scottish clerygyman, 19th century, (1956)
Dramatic unities: Euripides, Greek playwright, 5th century BC (1956)
Royal prerogative: title page from Eikon Basilike, 1649 (1956)
Equality of the sexes: Les Bas Bleus, 19th century (1956)
Inspiration: The Inspiration of the Poet, c1630 (1956)
Miracles: the legend of the Wolf of Gubbio, c1437-1444 (1956)
Cult of the individual: Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque artist, 1640 (1956)
Atlantis: a map showing the location of the mythical continent, c1882 (1956)
Brigham Young, American Mormon leader, 19th century (1956)
Anarchism: Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist, 19th century (1956)
Edward Whymper, British mountaineer, 1865 (1956)
Oscar Wilde, Irish-born playwright and wit, c1891 (1956)
Richard Wagner, German composer, 19th century (1956)
Walt Whitman, American poet, 19th century (1956)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist, late18th or early 19th century (1956)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet, 1855 (1956)
JMW Turner, British artist, 19th century (1956)
Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist, 1932 (1956)
Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, c1900 (1956)
Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, 19th century (1956)
James McNeill Whistler, American-born British artist, 1878 (1956)
Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer, 1895 (1956)
The Duke of Wellington, Irish-born British soldier and statesman, 19th century (1956)
Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette
Giaochino Rossini, Italian composer, 19th century (1956)
Samuel Palmer, British artist, 19th century (1956)
Voltaire, French writer, 18th century (1956)
John Ruskin, British artist, poet and critic, 1872 (1956)
Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 19th century (1956)
Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist, 19th century (1956)
William Morris, British artist and designer, 19th century (1956)
John Stuart Mill, British philosopher and social reformer, 19th century (1956)
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque artist, 1609 (1956)
Marquise de Pompadour, 1759 (1956)
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and theologian, c1840 (1956)
Henry James, American-born British novelist, 1890 (1956)
Florence Nightingale, British nurse and hospital reformer
Louis XIV, King of France, 1701 (1956)
Hokusai, Japanese artist, 1839 (1956)
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 19th century (1956)
Goethe, German poet, 19th century (1956)
