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George Washington's official letters and signature uploaded March 2012
Letter from George Washington to General Smallwood - page 2 uploaded March 2012
1792 map of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia uploaded March 2012
'The Compleat Explorer' by Griffith Taylor uploaded March 2012
'Pancake', from the Burnfoot House recipe book, 1782 uploaded February 2012
Map of North America by George Willdey , 1715 uploaded February 2012

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First Map of Scotland 'Scotia: Regno di Scotia' - 1570

from National Library of Scotland

2 older comments, and then…
Keen Hope said:
Amazing.
mikescottnz said:
Alba / modern Scotland was known as 'Caledonia' by the Romans. Then known as 'Scotia minor' as Ireland was Scotia major . Pictland or Scotland slowly became merged to 'Scotland' in the 700/800s to a certain Popes declaration too about the year 1000 AD, to disfranchise the Irish -Hibernian 'Scoti' monks who had been re christianizing Dark Age Europe.Over centuries it was was gradually colonized, partly conquered, by the original 'Scoti' (Irish) or Scots - tribes from Ulster under Dalriada and others. The original inhabitants of the NE Caledonia were the Picts. So Scotland has three main strands the Gaelic-Pictish merger of crowns and Celtic clans and some settling Danes / Norse from the Viking incursions.
excellentzebu1050 said:
Fantastic
tedesco57 said:
I just love old maps and have some Robert Morden pages in my collection
JJ_Dredd said:
Superb! thanks for the posting and info!

British gun going to its position, Battle of Flanders, Ypres, Belgium, 1914

from National Library of Scotland

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SASH155 said:
Apparently this was a 7.5in (190mm) Mk. III naval gun used on a static siege mount to shell Nieuport in Belgium. 14 of them were salvaged from the pre-dreadnaught battleship Swiftsure when it was decommissioned in 1917, with some going to coastal defense in Britain and a few for siege work in Belgium along the coast there. However, I must confess that this gun looks larger than 7.5 inch, perhaps a 9.2 inch or even a 12 inch spare barrel for a rail road gun.
Harry said:
Not so much a tractor, something that hardly existed at the time, more a steam-powered traction engine.
phrawggmak said:
that gun isn't big enough. they should go back to base and try harder.
Max Schmitt said:
It's only the barrel.
incredible face said:
It Appears to be a Foster Daimler tractor, a 105hp petrol engine driving through a reverse cone clutch and gearbox, with 2 forward speeds and one reverse, , the same sleeve valve engine went on to power the early tanks www.alamy.com/soldiers-with-a-daimler-foster-tractor-ww1-...