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Australia"

The donkey and gown relate to Sir John Key

The first relates to a trial taking place in France of a man involved in some assassination plot during the course of which it had been alleged that an English MP had been in some way involved in the plot - an allegation furiously rejected by the House

c1917-c1918

Plate 15 from A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist Varazze Australia"Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist, (c1924). In 1891, James Dewar (1842 1923) discovered a process to produce liquid oxygen in industrial quantities.

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