The Lion Tamer of the Russian circus, Captain Jack Bonavita, poses with some of his lions. 1905

British sailor removing the leg irons off a slave late 1800s

Lt. Oscar Bayer of the LAPD Detective Bureau aims a Thompson with a removed stock and no magazine for demonstration purposes. Pre-dating the Dillinger gang by six years this photo conveys the means by which bank robbers modified the Thompson to aid mobility and concealment 1927

Mum's army- A sergeant drilling civilian members of the Women's Home Defence Corps, in the use of rifles during the Battle of Britain in 1940

Vladimir Lenin and other Soviet leaders celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution in Red Square, Moscow, 1919

101st Airborne paratroopers signaling a helicopter to evacuate their wounded, 1968

Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961

Iranian woman before the Islamic Revolution, 1960

"Toffs and Toughs" The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937

NASA scientists with their board of calculations. 1960's

RMS Titanic from the starboard side, April 1912

Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1940

View from an American A-20 Havoc aircraft during a bomber run against a Japanese airfield, 1943-1945

Berlin in 1945

Five Australian former POWs catch up on news about the atomic bombings, after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, Sep 1945

Drive-in theater, South Bend Indiana, 1950s

Tattooing a butterfly garter belt, 1930s

Abraham Lincoln gazes down on demonstrators, during the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

People pose in windows and in front of shops on a street in New York City, c. 1865

Mogadishu, Somalia Pre Civil War 1960s

Men at work on the Central Line of the London Underground, 1898

Che Guevara disguised as Ramon Benitez Hernandez, a middle aged Uruguayan business man, in a forged passport used to sneak into Bolivia in 1966

Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919

Gadget, the first atomic bomb

Sumo Wrestling, Japan, ca. 1898

Japanese prisoners of war at a POW camp with bowed heads as they heard Emperor Hirohito broadcast the unconditional surrender of Japan.

A Hutu man at a Red Cross hospital, his face mutilated by the Hutu 'Interahamwe' militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. 1994

The end of WW2 is celebrated in Moscow's Red Square, May 9, 1945