1993 photo of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who led peaceful protests against Shell over oil pollution in Nigeria. He and 8 others were executed in 1995 after a trial for alleged murder, widely condemned as a sham by rights groups. Shell later paid $15.5M to settle a lawsuit over their role i…

The standard of Ligonier’s Regiment of Horse saved by Cornet Richardson at Dettingen in 1743 [1920x960]

Kodachrome photo of a girl bracing herself for her Typhoid vaccine, San Augustine County, Texas 1939.[860x1138]

Man's leather shoe, English, c. 1530-1545. [2100x1120]

Intricate Anthropomorphic Phallus | 1-200AD. Only one of its kind, located in Spain. Marble. [3024x3204]

Queen Puabi’s headdress. The headdress of gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian with two wreaths of poplar and a wreath of willow was on Queen Puabi’s body in her tomb at the Royal Cemetery of Ur, ca 2550 BCE. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.[1215…

A U.S. Marine pulls a comrade, wounded by a sniper, towards a safer area. Karma, Iraq. October 31, 2006.

The world’s oldest woven garment, called the Tarkhan Dress, probably fell past the knees originally. At 5,100 to 5,500 years old, it dates to the dawn of the kingdom of Egypt. Found in Cairo in 1913, now it's in the collection of the University College London [2804x3738]

The Paracas Candelabra is a geoglyph in peru measuring 181 m tall, large enough to be seen 19.3 km at sea. Although its exact age is unknown, archaeologists have found pottery around the site dating to around 200 BC. It is thought to represent the trident of the god Viracocha […

The four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, 1906

The four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, 1906

A B-29 Superfortress crashed during an attempted emergency landing on Iwo Jima, 24 April 1945 and ran into nine P-51 Mustangs. Ground personnel waits behind a Jeep for all ammunition to cook off. [720x511]

A B-29 Superfortress crashed during an attempted emergency landing on Iwo Jima, 24 April 1945 and ran into nine P-51 Mustangs. Ground personnel waits behind a Jeep for all ammunition to cook off.

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, 1877 [3480 x 2285]

Amon Göth, commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp, is convicted of war crimes and executed by hanging after WWII. (September 13th, 1946) [580x822]

Atlanta Ga street scene, 1933 [601x446]

The Kitchenware Sellers (c.1903)

Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861. [1024x1012]

The Green Stone lying in one of the storerooms of the Temple complex in Hattusa, which was the capital of the Hittite Empire until it was destroyed around 1200 BC. The stone, which is thought to have been made from serpentinite, may have played a role in some religious cult [40…

Grace Kelly wardrobe test for “High Society”, designed by Helen Rose. (1956)