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Hostages in the Kikinda prison, 1941
’10 years of NATO’ — Swiss cartoon (May 1959, Nebelspatler magazine) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty
This photo ‘Happiest Man in China’ was taken in 1901. The man didn’t know you’re supposed to be serious when posing for a photo
USS Salem (CA-139) on the evening of March 9, 2026
‘Endurance’ stuck in the ice 1915, Trapped and crushed by Antarctic pack ice, the crew of the Endurance survived nearly 500 days, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctica
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  • Darrell Night talks to the press after the convictions of two police officers who left him to die. He exposed the decades-long practice of ‘starlight tours’, in which police drove indigenous people to the outskirts of cities and left them to die in sub-zero temperatures (Canada, 2001) .
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  • “The Rape of Europa”, a painting by Ilya Glazunov, 2012
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  • The body of Leander Shaw after his lynching. Roughly a dozen people scaled the rear walls of the jail, took Shaw from his cell, dragged him to a plaza, and hanged him from an electric pole. Shaw was then shot over 500 times (Florida, 1908) .
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  • Guided missile cruiser USS Columbus (CG-12) on sea trials, December 1962
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  • The Maiden, a child found frozen on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, The photograph was taken shortly after her discovery in 1995
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  • ‘Our sea!’ – Turkish poster 1945
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  • Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan dying under house arrest, late 1970’s. in 1971 Khan presided over the Bangladeshi genocide, in which the Pakistani military murdered & raped hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. After years of extremely heavy drinking, Khan had a stroke & died in 1980 (1300×852)
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  • Competing posters in the New York City subway, circa 2012.
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  • A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .
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  • The serbian Black Hand terrorist group which later assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 1911-1915.
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  • German POWs captured by American Airborne forces in the Ruhr pocket, 1945.
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  • Heavy cruiser USS Astoria (CA-34) at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 25 September 1939
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  • Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.
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  • HMS Lancaster has been retired after 33 years of service
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  • Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sobbing during the funeral of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, 1970. Gaddafi idolized Nasser & considered him to be his personal hero, he was so distraught throughout the service that he fainted multiple times (856×820)
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  • Arleigh Burke class destroyers under construction at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works. Bath, Maine, Dec 2025
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  • “Second Amendment Scoreboard” (2010)
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  • African-Americans protest against the Vietnam war during the Harlem Peace March, 1967
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  • 3rd Great Grandfather’s Family Photo ~ 1895 Guthrie, KY
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  • The evolution of colonialism // Soviet Union // 1964
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