Greeting Cards

Text on the reverse side:Une bouée est un dispositif flottant qui sert à diverses fins. Il peut être ancré à un endroit pour guider ou avertir les ...

Text on the reverse side:La société allemande Mecklenburger Metallguss GmbH (MMG) a produit en 2006 la plus grande hélice de navire au monde, avec ...

Text on the reverse side:Les ancres anciennes étaient très simples, constituées de pierres ou de rondins de bois, qui permettaient de fixer le navi...

Text on the reverse side:La voile est l’une des disciplines olympiques les plus anciennes. Elle fait partie des jeux depuis 1896 et la Grande-Breta...

Text on the reverse side:Thomas Kisbee, un officier de la marine britannique, a inventé la bouée de sauvetage moderne en forme d'anneau. Il était f...

Text on the reverse side:Le mot gratte-ciel, couramment utilisé pour décrire un grand bâtiment urbain, était un terme utilisé pour décrire une peti...

Text on the reverse side: Les sphères armillaires, dont les premiers modèles remontent au IIème siècle, sont des représentations en laiton de la s...

Text on the reverse side:With earliest models dating back to the 2ndC, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere with eit...

Text on the reverse side:Cette carte a été créée en 1660, par le graveur et éditeur néerlandais, Justus Danckerts. L'entreprise familiale de cartog...

Text on the reverse side:This map was created in 1660 by Dutch engraver and print publisher Justus Danckerts. The Danckerts cartographic family bus...

Text on the reverse side:Compasses are useful tools in both land-based and maritime navigation, employing a magnetised needle to identify true nort...

Text on the reverse side:Les phares anciens étaient rudimentaires, constitués de plates-formes ou de petites structures surmontées de feux. Au XIXe...

Text on the reverse side:Ancient lighthouses were rudimentary, consisting of platforms or small structures with fires on top. In the 19th C., light...

Text on the reverse side: Les bouées sifflantes aident les marins à s’orienter par temps brumeux et incertains. Lorsque la bouée monte et descend ...

Text on the reverse side:On pense que les premiers navires ont été construits par les Égyptiens de l’Antiquité dès le IVème siècle avant JC. Voici ...

Text on the reverse side:It is believed that the first ships were built by the Ancient Egyptians as early as the 4th century BC. Since then, mariti...

Text on the reverse side: L'École navale, ou Académie navale française, forme les officiers de la Marine française depuis 1830. Cette illustration...

Text on the reverse side: The École navale, or the French Naval Academy, has trained the officers of the French Navy since 1830. This illustration...

Text on the reverse side: Les marins sont les membres actifs de l’équipage d’un navire au-dessous du grade d’officier. Cette illustration d'un mar...

Text on the reverse side: Sailors are the working members of a ship’s crew below the officer-level rank. This illustration of a sailor from the Fr...

Text on the reverse side:Le Petit Journal était un quotidien parisien populaire publié entre 1843 et 1944. Sur cette couverture figure le navire de...

Text on the reverse side:Le Petit Journal was a popular daily Parisian newspaper published between 1843 and 1944. The French naval ship Marengo is ...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration montrant l'évolution des uniformes de la marine française de 1690 à 1930. Le type d'uniforme porté et d'ins...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration showing the evolution of French Naval Uniforms from 1690 to 1930. The type of uniform worn and insignia dis...

Text on the reverse side:'A Christmas Carol' written by Charles Dickens, popularised the phrase 'Merry Christmas'. This novella was Dickens' most p...

Text on the reverse side:Ce proverbe anglais nous rappelle que, peu importe la violence de la tempête, il faut continuer le voyage et persévérer. V...

Text on the reverse side:The photographs were taken at St Martin’s Hall, London, during a public reading series which were presentations by the Dic...

Text on the reverse side:The photographs were taken at St Martin’s Hall, London, during a public reading series which were presentations by the Dic...

Text on the reverse side: The photographs were taken at St Martin’s Hall, London, during a public reading series which were presentations by the D...

Text on the reverse side:Studies have found that geniuses often show unique brain connectivity, suggesting that the genius intellect involves not j...

Text on the reverse side:48 Doughty Street is the only house in which Charles Dickens lived in London that survives and where he shot to worldwide ...

Text on the reverse side: This portrait miniature of Charles Dickens with dark curls was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1844, b...

Text on the reverse side:In this posthumous engraving by Samuel Hollyer, Dickens is seated at a desk in his country home of Gad’s Hill Place, where...

Text on the reverse side:This portrait of Charles Dickens was painted during his first tour of North America, where he caught the attention of Amer...

Text on the reverse side: In the publication Eclipse, 14th June 1868, André Gill illustrates Dickens crossing the English Channel holding his favo...

Text on the reverse side:Based on a reproduction published in 1874 by Edward J. Francis, this map was originally printed in the 1560s, but no survi...