Father Damien on his deathbed, resting on his side. He had cared for lepers on the island before contracting himself leprosy. Kalaupapa, Molokai, Kingdom of Hawai'i. April 14, 1889

Official handover ceremony of first British Airways Concorde in the Heathrow Airport. London, United Kingdom. January 15, 1976.

German SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves. Bergen-Belsen, Germany. April 20, 1945.

Three young Communist women from Zagreb, their hands bound, are laughing in front of their grave just before being shot. Independent State of Croatia, June 1941

Male convicts hoeing in a field in the Parchman Penal Farm. Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. 1911

10-year-old or 11-year-old Mary Simpson, also known as Mrs. Berry, pregnant of four months, has been prostitued since at least two years. London, United Kingdom. 1871

Actress Brigitte Bardot wearing tee-shirt supporting presidential candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. France, 1974 {580x386]

President Bill Clinton grabbing hair of Ilana Kattan, 7, to stop it from burning after noticing that it had caught fire on the menorah her class had just helped him light at the White House. Washington DC, United States. December 9, 1993

Mrs. Esther Stace, from Yarrowitch, riding sidesaddle and clearing a record 6'6" at the Sydney Royal Show. Sydney, Australia. 1915

Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia on board the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71). Great Bitter Lake, Egypt. February 14, 1945

Smoking hulks of ships of the French Armistice Navy, which had been scuttled the previous day to prevent Germans to take them. Toulon, France. November 28, 1942

Screenshot of footage of Patrice Lumumba (center) and Christophe Musungu under arrest by soldiers before transport to Thysville. Last picture of Lumumba alive. December 3, 1960. Léopoldville, Congo.

Workers cleaning up the smoking ruins of the city after Auxiliaries of the Royal Irish Constabulary burned it. Cork, Unitd Kingdom (today, Ireland). December 14, 1920

Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn by Judge Sarah T. Hughes aboard Air Force One at Love Field Airport two hours and eight minutes after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Jackie Kennedy (right), still in her blood-soaked clothes, looks on. Dallas, Texas, United States. November 22, 1963

Wedding of Princess Elizabeth (now, Queen Elizabeth II) and Philip Mountbatten (the late Duke of Edinburgh) at Westminster Abbey. London, United Kingdom. November 20, 1947

Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday party at a German Club. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. April 20, 1939

Armed insurrectionnists in front of the burned-down "Daily Record" (a Black-owned newspaper) press building, during riot against Fusionist city government including Blacks. Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. November 26, 1898

Pierre and Marie Curie holding bikes in front of their houses. Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Circa 1895.

Post Office of the 4th Division of Marines receiving airmail dropped by planes. Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. April 1st, 1945.

Passer-bys watching from the streets the World Trade Center on fire after terrorist attack. New York City, New York, United States. September 11, 2001

A barricade on the Ménilmontant Chaussee by insurgents fighting for the Commune. Paris, France. March 18, 1871

Amelia Earhart visiting the Langley Research Building of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, today the NASA). Hampton, Virginia, United States. November 5, 1928.

Makah Indians butchering a whale. Neah Bay, Washington, United States. 1910

Catholic priest (and future bishop) Edward Daly waving a blood-stained white handkerchief while trying to escort the mortally wounded Jackie Duddy to safety during Bloody Sunday. Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. January 30, 1972

Baghdadi spice merchants. Acre, Acre Sanjak, Ottoman Empire. June 18, 1901

Corpses of leftist rebels killed by the KMT. Guangzhou, China, December 11-13, 1927.

Kanchi Bada Maharani Balkumari Devi Rana, second wife of Prime Minister Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, with her daughter and five daughters-in-law. Nepal, 1925.

Congress of the French Section of the Socialist Internationale (SFIO), during which the majority decided to join the Third Internationale, founding the French Communist Party. Tours, France. December 25-30, 1920.

Sada Abe while being held at Takanawa Police Station for murdering and emasculating Kichizō Ishida. Tokya, Japan. May 20, 1936

Vera Black hugging daughter Elsie, 11, along with Lillian, 14, and Emilie, 9, after welfare authorities removed them for her living in a plural marriage. She refused to sign an anti-polygamy pledge. Short Creek, Arizona. January 13, 1956.

Within historic grounds of the Forbidden City, Eight NAtions troops celebrated victory over Boxers. Beijing, China. November 28, 1900.

Representatives of the World Council of Churches investigating the vandalized sarcophaguses in the cemetery of the Ecumenical Patriarchs after anti-Greek Pogrom. Istambul, Turkey. September 1955

Departure of Black emigrants for Liberia, sponsored by the American Colonization Society. Savannah, Georgia, United States. March 21, 1896.

Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon (standing to the left of center) with fellow members of the State Senate. She was the first woman elected to a State legislature in the USA, having run against her husband. Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. 1897

Robert Mugabe meeting Peter van Staal of the Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika at the Schiphol Airport. Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 19, 1979.

Spectators and U.S. Army military police wait outside of the building where 74 SS men will be sentenced for their roles in perpetrating the Malmedy atrocity. Dachau, Allied-Occupied Germany. July 16, 1946.

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor meeting Adolf Hitler at his Berghof home. Obersalzberg, Germany. October 22, 1937

The leader of the Revolt of the Lash against corporal punishment in the Navy, João Cândido Felisberto (front row, directly to the left of the man in the dark suit), with reporters, officers and sailors on board Minas Geraes. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. November 26, 1910

Bus which containined groups of Freedom Riders having been burned by racist mobs outside of the city. Anniston, Alabama, United States. May 14, 1961

Captain Sarkis Torossian (on the left) encounters his sister Bayzar after she was deported along his family. Tel-Halaf, Ottoman Syria. 1915-1918

Plotters of 3 Esfand, among them Reza Khan, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, who associated together to overthrow the Qajar dynasty. Persia. February 21, 1921.

Golda Mabovitch Myerson, future Israeli PM Golda Meir, is working in the fields of her kibbutz. Merhavia, Mandatory Palestine. 1921-1924.

Official wedding picture of Princess Elizabeth (later, Elizabeth II) and her new husband Prince Philip, taken in Buckingham Palace after their return from Westminster Abbey. London, England, United Kingdom. November 20, 1947

Funeral procession for major singer Umm Kulthum. Four million persons were in the streets for this event. Cairo, Egypt. February 5, 1975.

Sacheen Littlefeather with local farmers fighting against extension of the military base on their lands. Larzac, Occitanie, France. March 1973

A group of white men stands in front of Lynch's Slave Market at 104 Locust Street. St. Louis, Missouri. 1852

Queen Elisabeth of Belgium and Jean Capart visiting Edfu Temple. Egypt, April 1930.

Queen Elizabeth II is dancing with President Kwame Nkrumah while Philip, Prince of Edinburgh, is dancing with Mrs Faria Nkrumah. Accra. Ghana. November 18, 1961

Soldiers of the Red Army attacking island fortress held by mutineed sailors on the ice of the Gulf of Finland. Kronstadt, Soviet Russia. March 1921.

Dialectical Materialism class by Prof. Pavel Apostol, at the Victor Babeş University. Cluj, Romania. 1951

Scott Arthur and his family, who fled Paris, Texas after stepsons Herman and Irving lynched and publicly burned alive and their three sisters gang raped in the courthouse. Picture published in Chicago Defender. September 4, 1920.

Baricades set up in Michelet Street by "pieds-noirs" opposing De Gaulle and having a "Long Live Massu" banner. Algiers, French Algeria. January 1960.

Buses carrying Jews caught by Vichy French police to the "Vel' d'Hiv'" stadium, where they were to wait for deportation to Nazi camps. Paris, Occupied France. July 16, 1942

Heinrich Himmler with SS-Junkers (officer cadets) in a SS training camp. March 1938. Dachau, Germany

Italo Balbo, Benito Mussolini, Cesare Maria de Vecchi and Michele Bianchi passing in revue 40,000 Fascists during the march on Rome. Naples, Italy. October 24, 1922

Waterdown Public School pupil wearing a Halloween disguse during field trip. Waterdown, Ontario, Canada. October 31, 1928

Opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games. Tokyo, Japan. October 10, 1964.

Marcel Lefèbvre receiving episcopal consecration from Cardinal Lienart, Roman Catholic Bishop of Lilles, in the Our Lady of the Angels Church. Tourcoung, North, France. September 18, 1947.

Private Joseph Darnand, serving in the 35th Infantry Regiment. He later became the leader of the collaborationist paramilitary group Milice during WW2. Belfort, France, 1916.

British marines pose with a captured Zanzibari gun following the capture of the Sultan's palace at the end of the 38-minute war. Zanzibar City, Zanzibar. August 27, 1896

Giorgia Meloni, then a national leader of the National Alliance (AN, ex-MSI) student wing, with fellow members during a France 3 channel broadcast about general elections. Roma, Italy. April 20, 1996.

Workers building the Berlin Wall. East Berlin, East Germany. November 20, 1961

Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira being tried for the murder of her daughter Hildegart she had trained beforehand to be a genius. Madrid, Spain. 1934

Requetés gathering around their flags, during yearly Carlist celebration about the Third Carlist War. Montejurra, Navarre, Spain. 1960s

The red flag is floating over the Odéon Theatre, which has been occupied by leftist activists. Paris, France. May 21, 1968.

Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters. Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany. May 8, 1945

Picture of the Imperial Prince's Model Railway, in the park of the Saint-Cloud Palace. Saint-Cloud, Department of the Seine, France. 1859

George Q. Cannon, holding a flower bouquet, is in the Territorial Penitentiary, surrounded with other proeminant Latter'Day Saints held for violating the Edmunds Act against polygamy. Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. 1889.

First session of the Reichsgericht, which had to try war crime cases against German military personel. Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. May 23, 1921

President Jimmy Carter and Governor Dixie Lee Ray getting briefed about eruption of Mount St. Helens. State of Washington, United States. May 20-21, 1980

Gandhi unlawfully picking salt on the beach at the end of the Salt March Tax Protest. Behind him are Mithuben Petit and his second son Manilal Gandhi. Dandi, South Gujarat, British India. April 5, 1930

Afanasi Matushenko, leader of the mutiny, surrendering the Potemkin battleship to Romanian authorities after accepting asylum. Constanța, Romania. July 7, 1905

International fast against nuclear tests. Grenoble, France. March 1990.

Irish Citizen Army group outside Liberty Hall, under banner reading "We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland!" Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom. 1914

VE-day parade. Afula, Mandatory Palestine. May 8, 1945.

André Cognat (also called Antecume) is standing beside Mimi Siku's brother in a Wayana village. Antecume-Pata, French Guyana, France. 1979

Albert Préjean telling stories to Danielle Darrieux, Suzy Delair and Junie Astor, waiting their depart as part of official visit to the Reich, overseen by Goebbels. Paris, France. March 18, 1942.

Demonstrations against Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie. On the placard is written "A nation that yields to tyrants will lose more than body and goods - the light goes out." Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 5, 1989.

Hitler Youth members playing trumpet in a camp. China, 1935

Man punished with flogging for seducing woman. Islamabad, Pakistan. Late 1970s.

Mariam Soulakiotis (at right, bearing a crosier), an Old Calendarist abbess, attends one of her first court hearings for custom violations, awaiting being charged with murder and kidnapping. Athens, Greece. January 26, 1951

Mayor Vladimir Martus is presenting a portrait of Peter the Great to the crew of the Shtandart, a wooden frigate, during her Maiden Trip. Zaandam, Netherlands. September 4, 1999

Car using a gas generator from coal or wood. Berlin, Occupied Germany. 1946

Wehrmacht military personal from Sixth Company holding blackboard on which is written with chalk that “The Russian must die so that we may live.” Bryansk region. OCtober 2, 1941

The Captain of HMS MALAYA helping himself to plum pudding during Christmas dinner. Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. December 25, 1942

Chris Ernst, rower at Yale, leading to athletic director Joni Barnett 19 fellow female rowers to protest over the lack of bathroom available for the women's team. New Haven, Connecticut, United States. March 3, 1976

During Romanov Tercentenary, Czar Nicholas II is being offered bread and salt by an Old Believer community. Yaroslavl, Russian Empire. 1913

Miro Barešić and Anđelko Brajković, members of Croatian ultranationalist group Black Legion, being apprehended by police after deadly shooting against Yugoslav embassy. Stockholm, Sweden. April 7, 1971

Marina Yurlova, Cossak volunteer for the White army, is boarding a ship bound for Japan. Vladivostok, Russia. April 1919.

Signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, which limited naval construction to prevent an arms race. Washington, D.C., United States. February 6, 1922

Zhang Sizhi (center) and team are defending the Gang of Four and Lin Bian's generals in the Supreme People's Court. Beijing, China, 1981.

Field physicians checking an immunization reaction in a man vaccinated during smallpox epidemic. Kosovo, SR Yugoslavia. 1972

Wreckage from an Arrow Air DC-8 commercial aircraft awaiting analysis by Canadian Air Safety Board. Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. December 16, 1985

Chinese infantry soldier putting on a explosive suicide vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in a suicide bombing against a Japanese tank. Tai'erzhuang, Shandong, China. March-April 1938

FLN delegation at the Évian agreements with the French government to negociate terms for independence. Évian, France. March 1962.

A joint services color guard is displaying state flags during the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Washington DC, United States. November 13, 1982.

Electrical workers belonging to Local 600 of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) electrocuting Hitler in the Labor Day parade. September 7, 1942. Detroit, Michigan, United States

Billboard on the property of KKK leader Billy R. Flowers promoting the United Klans of America to "fight Communism and Intergration (sic)". Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. 1970.

Signing of the Elysée treaty between France and West Germany. Paris, France. January 22, 1963.

Drilling rigs on a petroleum field. Moreni, Romania. 1920s