Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945

13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beerfor the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created,  strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields. Flying at 12 000 feet chills the brew to perfection.

An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France. British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trencheson the right – in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917

1865: Hanging hooded bodies of the four Lincoln assassination conspirators.

The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came 40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965.

Leonard Siffleet, captured Australian commando who fought in WWII,  moments prior to being beheaded by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1943

Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps.  Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945

The end of WWII is celebrated in Moscow’s Red Square. May 9, 1945

US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself

NASA before Powerpoint

A shot from atop Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning during game 7 of the 1960 World Series. The Pirates defeated the Yankees with a walk off home run by Bill Mazeroski.  Photo was taken moments after the home run

The Muffin man in 1910 London

A man having his nose measured during Aryan race determination tests, 1940

Loggers in California with the felled giant 

‘Mark Twain redwood’, 1892

A man trying to sell his car after losing all in the Great Crash of 1929

Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran, 1960

The Titanic in dry dock 1912

 A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach. England, c. 1920 

The smallest shop in London – a shoe salesman with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900.

Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896