US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama mb-height 7186 Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus

Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543) describes his idea of a Sun-centred universe

leapfrogging over a mutinous John Bull

and a parasol

Actor John Cleese dressed in a bikini poses with five other girls wearing bikinis alongside fellow satirist Mike Palin during filming of the opening show

US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama mb-height 7186 Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibusUS Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA 26), Panama Canal, Panama, 1931. Commissioned in 1930, the 'Northampton' was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers. She was sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the Battle of Tassafaronga off Guadalcanal on 30 November 1942. The photograph was taken during a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies between January and March 1931.