Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray petrol spilt onto the hot

petrol spilt onto the hot exhaust

Boys from Artemid

Pierre-Simon Laplace was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789

The table is crowded with phials and bottles

Pope's Villa

Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray petrol spilt onto the hotRobert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat, 1874. Schenck (1809 1890) was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. In 1871 he was appointed US Minister to the United Kingdom by President Ulysses S Grant. At a reception for Queen Victoria in Somerset, Schenck was persuaded to write down his rules for the game of poker. The game rapidly became popular in Britain, where it was known as Schenck Poker.