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Collier's is famous for their extensive "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" series printed from 1952-54, but this is from another article of theirs on a similar topic printed several years before.

Post Sputnik in 1957, Goodyear pushed an integrated set of rocket, spaceship, and space station designs, and continued to do so through the early 1960s until it became clear that NASA was going ahead with their own approach.

This image was printed in Missiles & Rockets magazine's March 1960 issue, so slightly outside our group timeframe. But the design itself is a bit earlier; this picture would have been by Goodyear themselves, sometime in 1958 or '59.

The Ambrosian Iliad is a late 5th or early 6th century illustrated manuscript of Homer's Iliad, the only illustrated text from Antiquity (and in fact, illustrations at all) of that poem. This particular image is one of 52, and shows the Greek camp near Troy.

This is a bronze sword found in southern Hubei province, China, in 1965. It is inscribed with bird-worm seal script characters reading "King Goujian of Yue made this sword for [his] personal use".

Picture by Wikipedia user Windmemories used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

I don't know much about this one, a pick-up at the local used CD shop. I thought it was a Christmas album but it turned out to be one of those 90s solo alterna-chicks like Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, or Chris Cornell.

Springing from the otherwise non-existent Australian prog rock scene, the Lectroids released their self-titled debut album in 1971. The band members went their separate ways after selling only one copy, to electric flute player Gavin Whetstone's mother. Whetstone later formed the seminal punk band The Wankers.