A Wee But Fierce Brit And All That Entails

D-Day

Veterans share a joke as they pose for a photograph in the garden of a house near Caen where they experienced heavy fighting following D-Day in 1944. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Owen Butcher, aged 93, and Major Ted Hunt pose in a taxi before setting off to the beaches of Normandy with the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Paratrooper Gordon Newton, who was in the 9th battalion, and Geoff Paterson, 9th Para, share a joke as they commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the D-Day landings. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Veterans arrive at the Pegasus Bridge Museum for a service to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the D-Day landings. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Joan De-Vall, 92, who was an anti-aircraft height finder and predictor during the war, holds a wreath onboard the Brittany cross-channel ferry Normandie. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

THE TENTH DOCTOR and DONNA NOBLE in PARTNERS IN CRIME

Gold ring with engraving of an actor holding a theatrical mask

Greek, Early Hellenistic Period, 325-300 B.C.

Anton Seder. Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe /The Plant in Art and Industry. vol.2. ca. 1887-89. The apotheosis of the root vegetable.

This painting of a cave bear, at the Chauvet Cave in France, was drawn with 14 lines around 32,000 years ago. The artist used a technique known as 'stump-drawing' - the use of fingers or a piece of hide to paint the muzzle and to emphasize the outlines of the head and forequarters