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The French ship SV Seine (built in 1899) was on her way to Falmouth with a charge of nitrate when she ran into a gale off Scilly on December 28, 1900. She ran ashore in Perran Bay, Perranporth, Cornwall.

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Russian steamer Aksai wrecked on White Island, Scilly, November 1875 [Photo: Alexander Gendall Gibson]

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“Fannie J. Bartlett” wrecked at Napeague, 1894, photograph by William Wallace Tooker.

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The kangaroo 'Boonah' on board the german warship 'Karlsruhe'., in 1934. The kangaroo was later placed in Karlsruhe's zoo in Germany. It was still there in 1941.

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During Nazi Germany, Templehof Airport was crowned, sinde 1941, by an imperial eagle atop a globe. It was not until 1962 that American troops dismantled the sculpture and discarded everything except the eagle's head, which stands today at the airport on a plinth, where it was relocated in 1985.

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Vesuvius Lava map (John Auldjo, 1832)

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Cast of a Dog Killed by the Eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii, 1863 [photo: Giorgio Sommer]

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Napoli - Eruzione del Vesuvio del 26 aprile 1872 [Photo: Giorgio Sommer]

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Lava del Vesuvio, Napoli, 1872 [Photo: Giorgio Sommer]

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Pompeii: Human Casts found on 5 February 1863 (Photo: Giorgio Sommer)

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