George V Finish:Rolled in the far distance is

in the far distance is an aerial (refracting) telescope

Piper Indicum maximum longum

Probably the best-known ancient monument still standing in Alexandria

view of Balaclava Harbour looking towards the Black Sea at the time of the Crimean War

View at Shepherd's Bush

George V Finish:Rolled in the far distance isGeorge V, King of the United Kingdom from 1910, (1932). George (1865 1936) succeeded his father, Edward VII, as king. He changed the name of the Royal Family from the House of Saxe Coborg and Gotha to the House of Windsor in 1917 as anti German sentiment increased during World War I. From Kings and Queens by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, 1932.