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unusual facts about The Illustrated London News



Amédée Forestier

In December 1911, a series of his drawings (accompanying text by Arthur Bulleid) was published in The Illustrated London News, depicting scenes of everyday life in an Iron age village near present day Glastonbury - "Glastonbury Lake Village".

George Goodwin Kilburne

He also contributed a large number of black and white pictures to The Graphic, The Illustrated London News and Cassell's Magazine.

Piri Reis map

After reading about the map's discovery in The Illustrated London News, United States Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson contacted the United States Ambassador to Turkey Charles H. Sherrill and requested that an investigation be launched to find the Columbus source map, which he believed may have been in Turkey.


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Kilkee

In the Illustrated London News in 1849, the resort was described as 'Western Brighton'.