Hobart Snow

http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?detail=1&type=id&id=3796

Dated 1950, (1951?)


http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an6439325

1882

Mining Photos

Four miners with tools, 1897
Miners at the Hecla-Cutain Mine at Zeehan

Going on shift

Silver-lead mine
Silver Spray
Western Silver Mine

Tobacconist Shop, 1899

http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?detail=1&type=i&id=11255

Old Hospital

From Zeehan, including interior of dispensary, wards, operating theatre


http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/Detail.asp?ID=au-7-0016-125442038

Zeppelins, inside

Plans of Graf Zeppelin

Interior of gondola

Photos including interiors of Graf Zeppelin & Hindenburg

Lion Monument

Löwendenkmal -- a memorial to the Swiss Guards who were killed during the French Revolution

I'd forgotten the story that went with the Lion Monument at Lucerne.

One page with photo and short blurb.

Close up photo

Lots of good photos. Not much information. Too many aimed at tourist sites.

From Wikipedia

The most famous episode in the history of the Swiss Guards of the Royal household was their defense of the Tuileries Palace in Paris during the French Revolution. Of the nine hundred "Gardes Suisse" defending the Palace on August 10, 1792 more than six hundred were killed during the fighting or massacred after surrender. An estimated two hundred more died in prison of their wounds or during the September Massacres that followed. Apart from a few Swiss who were helped to escape from the Tuileries by sympathetic Parisians the only survivors were a 300 strong detachment which had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10. The heroic but futile stand of the Swiss is commemorated by Bertel Thorvaldsen's monument in Lucerne dedicated in 1821 and showing a dying lion collapsed across symbols of the French Monarchy.

Link from above article The Attack on the Tuileries

From http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=71663

(They) were given no orders as to what they should do when the murderous revolutionary mob approached. They did not know that the King and Queen had escaped the palace, and faced with overwhelming odds, laid down their arms in the face of annihilation by the irate peasants. Having searched the palace and finding the king gone, the crowd sated their blood-lust by turning on the Swiss guards who were overwhelmed by the 30,000 strong mob.

Catalpa & Rescue of Fenians

Wikipedia

Irish Australia - has song

Trinity College links