Yesterday is the birthday of the man who froze the gallop and thawed it out again.
From, of course, Wikipedia.
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There is a (very) small but delightful exhibtion devoted to Muybridge at the local museum in Kingston Upon Thames (London, UK) for anyone near enough to visit. Well worth half an hopur of anyone's time.