A Russian woman cries as she is reunited with a soldier after the war. Moscow, 1945

John Lennon in George Harrison's psychedelic painted Mini in Kent, 1967

A German soldier gives some bread to a young Russian boy, near the city of Volkhov. 1942

Hindenburg in my hometown 

The bedroom of a teenager in East Germany that was under surveillance, a declassified photograph taken by the Stasi, c. 1980's.

Joe Cobb, former "fat boy" in the original "Our Gang" comedies, now helps build B-25 bombers at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation 1942 

The English team giving the Nazi salute at the Olympiastadion in Berlin  May 1938

A belly dancer on the London Underground, London, 1968 

Final days of Samurai, Ca.1868 Japan

U.S. Army officer in Vietnam using a cigarette to burn leeches off his forearms, photograph by Larry Burrows 

Korean Women Ironing, c 1910

Construction of the Pentagon 1942-1943

Training camp for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto, Ontario 1928 

Child glass workers in West Virginia taking a quick lunch break, c.1900s

Canadian firefighters seal an oil well in Kuwait after Iraqi sabotage during the Gulf War, 1991 

Philippe Petit tightrope walking between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, August 7, 1974 

Construction of the Manhattan Bridge, 1909 

A London policeman gives tea to a homeless man after a V1 attack that killed his wife, and destroyed his home, 1944

A graveyard detail is coming ashore from the hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) with the coffins of troops who died of their wounds aboard the ship. Okinawa, Japan, July 31, 1945.

A RAF airman is buried with full military honours by occupying German soldiers. Jersey, Channel Islands. 1943

A federal agent inspects a 'lumber' truck after smelling alcohol during the prohibition period 1926

A Union regiment formed into square formation which was used to counter cavalry, c. 1862. 

The ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1865

Woman Suffrage Headquarters, Ohio 1912. The 1912 measure failed, 57% to 43%. It was eventually passed in 1919

Donna Gottschalk, with a "I am your worst fear" poster, at Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day parade in New York 1970  photo by Diana Davies

Badly Damaged Syrian T-34 Tank in the Golan Heights. 6 day war. 

Stalin smiles like Borat, 1915