Victoria and her seven-year-old son Maksym had an appointment at medical centre in Vinnytsya when Russian missile hit it, destroying the building and killing Maksym and his mother. This is what Russia does when it says it hits military targets only. It targets everyone/everything

Rejected Designs For The Eiffel Tower

Still the greatest moment in TV documentary history. youtube.com/watch?v=1VK1Kc…

This. But live, unscripted and in response to things happening before his eyes that we could all also see. RIP Eddie Butler

3 weeks in and she's lost the markets $500 billion. not saying that's grounds for dismissal or anything but i once nearly lost my job for buying a curry with a company card

1/3 A Fen Skater christened the ice today as conditions proved perfect for the first time in years. Skating over the frozen flooded fields and meadows has been a part of Fenland life for hundreds of years.

I'm doing homework about polar explorers with my son, who has just described the revelation that Peter Freuchen (pictured, left) dug his way out of an ice cave with a chisel made out of his own frozen turd as "the best fact I have ever heard in my life."

When life imitates (nose) art. B-29 Superfortress crew replicate the nose art which is a caricature of them in November 1944. I believe the aircraft and crew was lost in action in 1945.

On 14 May 1938, England’s football team were pressured by the FA, the British Foreign Office and British ambassador to Germany, Nevile Henderson, to give the Nazi salute in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, to assist the policy of appeasement. Stan Cullis refused, and was dropped.

Today is Waterloo Day! The 208th Anniversary of the battle which defeated Napoleon Bonaparte. To commemorate, I've cleaned-up a startling photograph of a British veteran of that campaign, displaying his Service Medal from the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1814. The photo was taken in 1850

19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence. Where life is measured by the term of my life or the term of life of this regime. The sentencing figure

Sadly, despite paying for Twitter Blue, people are still not seeing my tweets like they used to.😔 Can you please do me a favour? If you follow me and you see this tweet, can you please retweet it.🙏 To make it more worth sharing, here's a Kingfisher on a thorny branch. 🥰🐦

Both blocks are the same color. use your finger to cover the middle line. An example of the Cornsweet illusion using shading and gradients to challenge perception, an optical illusion that was described in detail by Tom Cornsweet in the late 1960s

The single greatest shot filmed in television history. In 1978, James Burke had one chance to film this perfectly timed launch of Voyager 2. If he missed, there would have been no chance to re shoot it.

Hand belonging to an X-ray technician at the Royal London Hospital, which shows the damage from radiation exposure, 1900. Every morning, they would calibrate the machines by taking an X-ray of their hands. So you might be wondering, why not just use something else to test the

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023. So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago

And these are the mass graves, in a forest outside Izium, where Russian forces dumped the bodies of the civilians they murdered. 445 bodies were retrieved by the Ukrainian troops who liberated Izium. To witness this scene, in a European country in 2025, shook me to my core.