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The Friday Digest 22/05/15

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This week's update features extraordinary objects from the Battle of Waterloo, shrinking swimsuits and cyber archaeology.


News travels slow … T Fielding’s engraving of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo. Photograph: Hulton Getty


The Battle of Waterloo, and not a single reporter in sight ... 


A cannonball tore through cavalryman François Fauveau’s armour


* Twenty-five extraordinary objects from the Battle of Waterloo


IMAGE: AGENCE ROL / GALLICA VIA EUROPEANA

 

* The tourists who rode tanks up the Alps as part of a secret First World War mission


Did you know that in 1918 a pigeon, Cher Ami, managed to save 500 US soldiers? You might think twice before running away from them now! Photograph: Hulton Archive Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive



* The top ten facts you didn't know about the First World War


 This is the Platonic image of Joan: a snug red sheath topped by her signature pen necklace.


 
* The best looks from Mad Men’s entire run.


Archive swimwear design by Oleg Cassini, for R and W H Symington


* How male and female bathing suits got smaller and smaller ...

 

Treasure hunter Rubén Collado stands in front of a model of the British 64-cannon ship Lord Clive in Colonia del Sacramento, 188km west of Montevideo. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
 

* A British shipwreck off Uruguay coast could hold treasure worth millions. Salvage of Lord Clive, sunk by Spanish guns in the River Plate in 1763, is due to begin in the next few months. 


A bushman from the Khomani San community strikes a traditional pose in the Southern Kalahari desert on 16 October 2009 in the Kalahari, South Africa


* A study has shown that in contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes men and women tend to hold equal standing and influence, suggesting that sexual equality was the norm for humans throughout most of our evolutionary history.  


A mosaic at Bignor Roman Villa in West Sussex Photo: Alamy

 

* The best thing the Romans did for Britain was leave, according to one historian, but do you agree?  


Portrait of Mary I, 1554. Found in the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)



* Mary I’s phantom pregnancy


Ten days after arriving at the Cape we arrive at our final destination - Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe

 

Following in the footsteps of Edgar Wallace, the creator of King Kong, across southern Africa ...


Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte. Original Artwork: Painting by their brother, Patrick Branwell Bronte, circa 1834

 

A drama about the 'tragedy and passion' of the difficult lives of the Bronte family is planned to appear on BBC One.


Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, at Buckingham Palace on 15 May 1860

 

The life of Queen Victoria is to be dramatised on ITV, starting with her ascension to the throne aged 18.

 

'Cyber-archaeology' salvages lost Iraqi art 

* 'Cyber-archaeology' salvages lost Iraqi art


First-class in flight service equalled anything that could be found on the ground as jet aircraft were introduced to the fleet


Air New Zealand's photo archive reveals golden age of travel as the airline celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary.  


Audrey Hepburn after the liberation of Holland by an unknown photographer, 1946. Photograph: Family of Audrey Hepburn/NPG


* Breakfast at Audrey's: the Hepburn family photo album unlocked


Brain Surgery's Earliest Patients



* A look at brain surgery's earliest patients


Fracture of mandible (1886)

 

* Seven horrifying workplace injuries that will make you glad that you're not Victorian. (WARNING: not for the faint-hearted) 


Rome, Italy --- View of Roman Sculpture at the Centrale Montemartini Photograph: Massimo Listri/Corbis

 

* Ten of the best museums in Europe that you’ve probably never heard of  ... 


'True face of Shakespeare' appears in botany book

 

* Does the 'true face of Shakespeare' appear in this botany book


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* 1922: the year that changed everything in literature ... 


Roald Dahl | The Twits

 

* How well do you know these Roald Dahl characters 

 

* The gender gap has widened once again for children reading for pleasure


books every woman


* Twenty-one books from the last five years that every woman should read


Jeff Eliassen/Getty Images

 

* In a mother’s library, bound in spirit and in print


* What's the most beautiful paragraph or sentence you've ever read


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* Minimalist graphic design posters depicting obscure, underused and complex words


Stunning Disney Character Transformations from Concept Art to Final Frame

 

* Stunning Disney character transformations, from concept art to final frame.  


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