File: Rembrandt-The Departure of the Shunammite Woman. 1. jpg | Rembrandt-The Departure of the Shunammite Woman

File: Hong Kong Kai Tak Flight Information. jpg | Departure terminal of the former Kai Tak Airport.

File: David Roberts 001. jpg | Departure of the Israelites ( 1829 ).

File: Vittore carpaccio, Departure of the Pilgrims 00. jpg | Meeting of the Betrothed Couple and the Departure of the Pilgrims

File: Departure board brighton station 17 dec 2009. jpg | The departure board at the station

File: Elbfähre Bad Schandau, Tafel. jpg | Departure boards at public transport stations and terminals ( Elbe ferry Bad Schandau, Germany )

File: Děčín, autobusové nádraží, displej odjezdů. jpg | Departure boards at public transport stations and terminals ( bus station in Děčín, Czech Republic )

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

File: British Museum Egypt 086. JPG | Room 4-Colossal statue of Amenhotep III, c. 1370 BC

File: British Museum Olduvai handaxe. jpg | Room 2-Handaxe, Lower Palaeolithic, Olduvai Gorge, circa 1. 2 million years

File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )

File: British Museum gold thing 501594 fh000035. jpg | Room 51-Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900 – 1600 BC ( one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working )

File: British Museum Royal Gold Cup. jpg | Room 40-Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup, c. AD 1370-80 ( generally agreed to be the outstanding surviving example of late medieval French plate )

File: British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006. jpg | British Museum Reading Room

File: British Museum 2010-06-04 B. jpg | Ceiling of the Great Court and the black siltstone obelisks of Nectanebo II, c. 350 BC

File: England ; London-The British Museum, Facade South Front ~-Main Entrance + West Wing-Collonade + The Africa Garden. 2. JPG | African Garden-created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

File: BM ; RM6-ANE, Assyrian Sculpture 32-East ( N ), Centre Island + North Wall-~ Assyrian Empire +-Lamassu, Stela's, Statue's, Obelisk's, Relief Panel's ) & Full Projection. 1. JPG | The British Museum, Room 6-Assyrian Sculpture

File: British Museum-Room 85, Roman Portrait Sculpture. JPG | Room 85-Portrait Sculpture, Roman

File: Ship Clock at British Museum. jpg | Room 38-39-Mechanical Galleon, Augsburg, around AD 1585

File: Egyptian harp. jpg | An ancient Egyptian harp on display in the British Museum

This Jargon File entry notes kludge apparently derives via British military slang from Scots kludge or kludgie meaning " a common toilet ", and became confused with U. S. kluge during or after World War II.

File: 1914 Sydney Half Sovereign-St. George. jpg | British

File: Antique Japanese tachi with koshirae. jpg | Antique tachi and koshirae, British museum.

File: Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Waterloo. jpg | Depicting French Cuirassiers charging onto the British squares during the Battle of Waterloo

File: British Museum Aztec or Mixtec shield. jpg | Ceremonial shield with mosaic decoration.

File: British Airborne Units. svg |< center > Airborne Units, Great Britain ( actually a winged unicorn, with pegasus features )

File: British gun, skansin ( Faroe Islands ). jpg | The British cannon at Skansin

File: British Shorthair, Classic Tabby. jpg | A British Shorthair with the classic tabby markings.

File: Dilute calico British Shorthair. jpg | A dilute tortoiseshell and white.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

File: Russian Troops NGM-v31-p372. jpg | Russian troops going to the front ( National Geographic Magazine April 1917 )

File: The Prince Regent Reviewing the Troops at Azambuja. png | The Prince Regent Reviewing the Troops at Azambuja, 1803.

File: Great Mosque of Djenné 3. jpg | Great Mosque of Djenné, famous building made from banco, a type of adobe

File: Fepm ( 8 ). jpg | Example from Chilpancingo

File: Selbstporträt, by Albrecht Dürer, from Prado in Google Earth. jpg | Self-portrait, 1498, Museo del Prado, oil on wood panel

A page from the Bombardier's Information File ( BIF ) that describes the components and controls of the Norden bombsight.

File: Microcline-119096. jpg | Amazonite from the well-known locality on Pikes Peak, Colorado.

File: Microcline-179612. jpg | Large Amazonite crystal from Konso special woreda, Ethiopia.

File: Defoliation agent spraying. jpg | A UH-1D helicopter from the 336th Aviation Company sprays a defoliation agent over farmland in the Mekong Delta

File: 2012-kruger-albino-elephant. jpg | A wild albino elephant from Kruger National Park

File: Tutanhkamun jackal. jpg | Anubis statue from the Tomb of Tutankhamun ( Cairo Museum ).

File: Firenze. Arno. jpg | Banks of the Arno, seen from the Ponte Vecchio ( Old Bridge ), Florence

File: View From the Ponte Vecchio of the River Arno. jpg | The view of the Arno from the Ponte Vecchio

File: Belchen-Gipfel. JPG | View from the Belchen towards the Alps

File: Bosphorus view Topkapi Istanbul 2007. jpg | View of the entrance to the Bosphorus from the Sea of Marmara, as seen from the Topkapı Palace.

* alt = This article incorporates text from the corresponding entry in the Jargon File, which is in the public domain according to its Introduction.

File: BM ; RM18-GR, The Parthenon Galleries 1 Temple of Athena Parthenos ( 447-438 B. C ) + North Slip Room ,-Full Elevation & Viewing North -. JPG | Room 18-Parthenon statuary from the east pediment and Metopes from the south wall

File: BM, GNR ; The Acropolis & The late 5th C BC ~ Erechtheum Caryatid + Ionic Column ( Room 19 ). jpg | Room 19-Caryatid and Corinthian column from the Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens, 421 BC

File: Column drum Ephesus. JPG | Room 22-Column from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, early 4th century, BC

File: Winged Human-headed Bulls. JPG | Room 10-Human Headed Winged Bulls from Khorsabad, companion pieces in the Musée du Louvre

File: Model of a chariot from the Oxus Treasure by Nickmard Khoey. jpg | Room 52-A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, circa 5th to 4th century BC

File: Raminathicket2. jpg | Room 56-The famous ' Ram in a Thicket ' figure, from Ur, circa 2600 BC

File: Standard of Ur-War. jpg | Room 56-The famous ' Standard of Ur ' figure, from Ur, circa 2600 BC

File: Lovers 9000BC british museum. jpg | Room 2-Ain Sakhri lovers, from the cave of Ain Sakhri, near Bethlehem, 11, 000 years old ( oldest known representation of two people engaged in sexual intercourse )