EditorialFlower fairies: a sleeping olive in cotton bonnet, the marvel of Peru, everlasting with crown and snake headdress, myrtle as an old rogue, tobacco smoking a cigar and laurel as an old musketeer. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an ill...
EditorialSir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618). English writer, soldier, politician and explorer. Favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Ralegh conceived the project of colonizing North America, founding in 1584 on the island of Roanoke (now North Carolina) the colony Virgini...
EditorialFlower fairies: a sleeping olive in cotton bonnet, the marvel of Peru, everlasting with crown and snake headdress, myrtle as an old rogue, tobacco smoking a cigar and laurel as an old musketeer. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an ill...
EditorialDuring a short break at the Gottfried Wilhelm mine near Essen in the Ruhr, West-Germany, miners share some chewing tobacco. Smoking is forbidden underground but doctors think chewing tobacco is adviseable, as it closes nose and mouth against coaldust. ...
EditorialFlower fairies: a sleeping olive in cotton bonnet, the marvel of Peru, everlasting with crown and snake headdress, myrtle as an old rogue, tobacco smoking a cigar and laurel as an old musketeer. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an ill...
EditorialDuring a short break at the Gottfried Wilhelm mine near Essen in the Ruhr, West-Germany, miners share some chewing tobacco. Smoking is forbidden underground but doctors think chewing tobacco is adviseable, as it closes nose and mouth against coaldust. ...