Images of different heights with the same baseline

FAILED TO ACHIEVE WHAT I WAS AFTER - FUCKING SHITTY CSS LAYOUT

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Default styling (in Chromium 14) is for these all to be base aligned

Putting the smaller ones within a DIV moves them to vertically align at the top

Same for a SPAN

SPAN does not seem to recognize vertical-align

DIV does not seem to recognize vertical-align