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The Endurance ship being stuck in the Antarctic ice (forever), 1915, [1100x953]
Emperor Pedro II of Brazil in 1862. He ruled Brazil for over 50 years. He was an intellectual and once said that if he wasn't born Emperor he would rather be a teacher. His friend, the French writer Victor Hugo, once called him great-grandson of Marcus Aurellius. (627x974).
Georges Méliès, director director of the iconic A Trip to the Moon/Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), standing next to his toy shop, at Gare Montparnasse, Paris 1925 (1200 × 861)
The US Navy's "Squadron of Evolution 1889 at anchor. Ships include the protected cruiser USS Chicago (flagship) in left foreground. Astern of her (from left to right) is the gunboat USS Yorktown (Gunboat No. 1), the protected cruiser USS Boston, and the protected cruiser USS Atlanta.[4588 × 3482]
The Italian Royal family in 1908 (colorized) [1280×912]
General George Marshall, 1946. As Army Chief of Staff, he was one of the half dozen people most responsible for defeating global Fascism. Later, as Secretary of State, he was one of the half dozen people most responsible for containing Stalinism in Europe. [891 x 1350]
leftist revolutionary woman cleaning her gun. Tehran, iran, 1979 (484x741)
Portraits of Empress Menen and Adolf Hitler for sale, Addis Ababa, 1935 [960×1280]
Polish colonial soldier marching through Toruń, 1939. (640x939)
Portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini being mass-produced for export to Iran. United Kingdom, 1970s [1024x690]
August Landmesser refuses to perform the Nazi Salute at a gathering of workers at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg in 1936. His fiancé was Jewish. Later on Landmesser would be imprisoned, conscripted into penal service and would die in action in Hodilje, Croatia. [6449x4555]
Last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933 Colorized (599 x 377)
1952, Venice Beach, Californie. [2158x1487]
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Foreign Ministers of Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland sign the papers of accession of the three former Warsaw Pact members to NATO on 12 March 1999 (Independence, Missouri 1999) [2800x2045]
The body of Pierre Laporte, a Quebec official who was kidnapped and murdered by Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) militants, is found in a car trunk. Montreal, Oct 17 1970. [1994 x 1241]
Pro-independence supporters cheer during a speech by Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard at a junior college in Montreal, Oct. 24, 1995. [1600 x 1060]
Newly arrived in London, young women from Calcutta India, September 1957 (2000x1443)
Polish insurgent unit during the Silesian Uprisings, 1921. [440x284].
Spanish Baleares-class frigate Extremadura (F-75) in the dock of Reina Victoria, 1972.[2048 × 1424]
1938 European Athletics Championships, Vienna - women's shot put. First place went to Hermine Schröder, second to Gisela Mauermayer, third to Wanda Flakowicz. [1080x891]
Soviet Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 1960. Destroy Nazi Germany, win valuable prizes. [1561 x 2111]
Mauritanian SNIM Class (CC 01-21) locomotive: traveling on the Mauritania Railway with a track maintenance train, between Nouadhibou and Zouerate - part of that railway runs through the Western Sahara territory - photo c. 1994. [800 x 519]
Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Lavrentiy Beria, and Joseph Stalin, Moscow, USSR 1936. [2048 x 1425]
Philadelphia: A crowd watching a row of buildings go up in flames after the bombing during the 1985 MOVE bombing. [387x258]
Sir Alexander Fleming (left), the discoverer of penicillin (1928), receiving an honorary doctorate from Dr. Thomas S. Gates (President of the University of Pennsylvania). Photo on 14 July 1945. [3600x2817]