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Classic!!!!!

Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

I think i'm right in saying that this was before the sphinx was excavated a bit (because we can't see its legs) and before it was damaged some more by troops using it as target practice in the war

As seen in 2008



In the matter of the missing nose, take a look here.

home.xnet.com/~warinner/sphinx.html

wow, great to have the chance to see it the way it was when found out! thx!

"Let His Loyalty and Devotion be a Lesson to Us All" Bobby was a Skye Terrier whose master, John Gray, died in 1858. Bobby was so devoted to his master that for fourteen years Bobby lay on the grave in Greyfriars Cemetery , leaving only for food. Baroness Angelia Georgina Burdett-Coutts, President of the Ladies Committee of the RSPCA, visited Edinburgh on several occasions to see Bobby. The Baroness received permission from the City Council to erect a granite fountain with a statue of Bobby on top by the graveyard as a lasting memorial to the loyal little terrier Bobby. The original sculpture is in the Museum of Edinburgh. Greyfriars Bobby -- Download the classic 1912 book by Eleanor Atkinson from the ManyBooks.net website. (Digitized by Project Gutenberg.) Greyfriars Bobby -- 1961 Disney movie by Internet Movie Database Greyfriars Bobby -- Movie released in the UK in 2006 Greyfriars Bobby -- Website

Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

How weird. I was just reading about Greyfriars Bobby last night in my daughter's school book!

Superb, thank you for sharing this fine work

Wow. I didn't know anything about this until I saw this photo. What a touching story.

Looks like this instrument is based upon Lord Kelvin's work and patents. At the Persistent URL the National Galleries of Scotland has this note : "He was also the partner of a Glasgow firm that made measuring instruments from his own patents" And here is some of his published work on such instruments: zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/terrestrial_magnetism_and_the_... .

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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

is he not a landlord of apublic house

Difficult to exaggerate how important a figure kelvin was.