7-foot-tall (2.10m) captured German soldier, Jacob Naken, talking with a Canadian soldier in Calais, France on 29 September 1944.

Veteran of the American Revolutionary War, Jonathan Smith. He fought in the Battle of Long Island which took place in August 1776. This photograph was taken in 1854 making it likely that he was at least 96 years old at the time of this photograph.

This photo juxtaposes the ancient and the modern: the fossilized remains of Lucy, a member of Australopithecus afarensis, standing beside a child from our own species. Discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson and his team in the Afar region of Ethiopia, 'Lucy' revolutionized our

Skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis, besides an average 4 year old girl, circa 1974.

Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bean on the set of GoldenEye (1995)

While filming Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone asked Dolph Lundgren to hit him for real. Lundgren agreed & then hit him so hard Stallone had to spend 9 days recovering in intensive care. In a later interview, Lundgren showed no sympathy stating "All I did was obey orders"

Andre The Giant at a Paris Fashion Show (Age 20 - 1966)

Operation Pluto, which secretly pumped a million gallons of fuel under the sea during WW2

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Vasylivka III — Burial 33 — Mesolithic Ukraine (c. 11,000–9,000 YBP) The illustrated specimen represents the male skull from Burial 33 at the Vasylivka III Mesolithic cemetery, situated on the left bank of the middle Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. Excavated during the

On May 26, 1990, Marlene Warren opened her front door to find a clown standing outside, holding balloons and flowers. Without warning, the clown shot her in the face and fled, leaving behind almost no clues. For 27 years, the case remained unsolved — until investigators finally

@historyinmemes 🚨Info Donald Trump’s mother once used a racial slur, There’s a circulated claim that Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Donald Trump’s mother, once called a Black person a derogatory name. Specifically, the allegation is that she said the N-word. The story has drifted around in various

An Egyptian street mummy seller in 1875

For the first time in 200 years, the Parthenon's exterior is completely free of scaffolding on all sides. It's also the first time in 20 years that the western side has been scaffold-free. At least six generations have never seen the Parthenon unobstructed.

A 1776 excerpt from John Adam's diary where he describes the time he had to share a tiny bed with Benjamin Franklin and, instead of sleeping, they had an argument about whether to keep the windows open or closed. Franklin eventually won the argument when Adams got too tired and

A shocking and deeply disturbing case out of Florida has left both parents and investigators stunned. Authorities say 36-year-old Tara Sykes used the popular online gaming platform Roblox to manipulate and instruct a 10-year-old child to harm a baby. According to investigators,

In the popular children's book series "Pippi Longstocking," the title character is a little girl who lives alone because her father, Ephraim, is lost at sea. He eventually reappears and reveals that he's been crowned the king of a South Sea island. While the story seems purely

The Roman temple of Vienne (France) 1851 - 2021

Westminster Abbey 1911-2024 (London) This is how central London appeared in 1911, taken outside the beautifully preserved Westminster Abbey, compared to today. The Abbey was founded by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century and consecrated in 1065, later rebuilt in the

On August 26, 2015, Alison Parker (left) would be fatally shot along with cameraman by a co-worker while interviewing live on TV