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Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service, nicknamed "Wrens," operate the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park on October 23, 1943. It was with the help of Colossus—and Alan Turing—that cryptographers cracked the "unbreakable" Lorenz code, aiding the Allies' victory.

Nasmyth's plaster lunar models were photographed because, at the time, it would produce better results than direct lunar photography. The photographs were used to illustrate the book The Moon that Nasmyth published in 1874 with James Carpenter.

James Nasmyth undertook extensive observations of the Moon with his telescope in the late 19th-century. He created sketches which were the basis of his plaster, lunar models.

Lord George Curzon and his wife, Mary, ride on an elephant, circa 1895. Despite his controversial tenure as viceroy to India—in which he deliberately attempted to sow tension among religious and ethnic groups—Curzon became Britain's foreign secretary in 1919.