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Ludwig von Beethoven, German composer Anonymous

Charles Dickens, British novelist Anonymous

Chivalry and courtly love: Flemish parade shield Anonymous

Miracles: the legend of the Wolf of Gubbio Anonymous

Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer Anonymous

Title page of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie Anonymous

The killing of Adham Khan by Akbar Anonymous

Taking a Daguerreotype Anonymous

Mont Fuji, Japan Anonymous

Witch hunt: 'The Bewitched Groom' Anonymous

Telescope from Selenographia Anonymous

Samuel Palmer, British artist Anonymous

Interior of a cave temple, Ellora, Maharashtra, India Anonymous

Nature: cloud study Anonymous

Death mask of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence Anonymous

Edward Gibbon, British historian Anonymous

A coach in Rome Anonymous

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, British politician Anonymous

Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist Anonymous

Honore de Balzac, French novelist Anonymous

Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine Anonymous

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Flight into Egypt, early 1300s Unknown

Freedom of the press: title page from the Areopagitica by John Milton Anonymous

Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Anonymous

Cruger's azimuth quadrant A Steck

Vitalism: Henri Bergson, French philosopher Anonymous

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer Anonymous

Photographic gun designed by Etienne Jules Marey Anonymous

Magic lantern Anonymous

Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque artist Anonymous

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist Anonymous

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet Anonymous

The Marquise de Brinvilliers before execution Anonymous

John Stuart Mill, British philosopher and social reformer Anonymous

Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman Anonymous

'Superman': Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher Anonymous