The Cambridge Eight on the River Thames, pictured rowing in a large egg shell! The latin text in the water beyond read \'Ab Ovo\', which translates as \'from the egg\'. All this visual and textual word-pay refers to their 8-man rowing boat (octuple scull), which is also known as a \'shell\'. The Cambridge crew had a famous \'shell\' race against the 8 from Harvard University (of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) on September 6, 1906, on the Thames, starting at Putney, London (Putney Bridge visible in the background).