Among all the members of the feline family, lions are the tallest.

German prisoners captured during the battle of Stalingrad, Jan / Feb 1943.

Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park in Brazil is an area famous for its many limestone caves.

Mysida are a genus of shrimp-like crustaceans found throughout the ocean, both at great depths and in the pelagic zone.

🇫🇷 French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, left, poses high on the steps of the newly completed Eiffel Tower, 1889

Boeing 777 leaving behind a rainbow vapor trail

British archeologist Sir Leonard Woolley (right) and T. E. Lawrence at the excavations at Carchemish, with a slab depicting a Hittite chariot, c. 1913.

Boat trip along the canals of Amsterdam with Dutch tulip flavor.

Swing at Wansheng Ordovician Amusement Park, Chongqing, China 🇨🇳

🇵🇱 Rabbi Baruch Steinberg before the Warsaw Great Synagogue (1933), reading the roll call of those fallen in the Polish War of Independence at a veteran’s memorial service organized by Union of Jewish Fighters for Polish Independence. Also known as the Russo-Polish war, this conflict was fought in the latter years of WWI up until the beginning of 1921 to secure the freedom and borders of the Polish state from the soviets.

Anglerfish actual size

Incredible atmosphere in the sunny Maldives 🇲🇻

Christiaan De Wet (1854–1922), Boer general, politician and rebel leader.

This bell in Kyoto, Japan was cast in 1636 and weighs 70 tons

Curious residents of the Gulf of California.

8 February 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being accused of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot (painting by Abel de Pujol)

Nazaré is a seaside town on the western side of Portugal, famous for its huge waves.

🦍 The future ringleader is learning to beat his chest.

🇸🇪 Two men touching up the paint on the letters of an old runestone, Kungshållet, Sweden, c. 1930s. The inscription says: "Alrik, Sigrid's son, raised the stone in memory of his father Spjut, who had been in the west, broken down and fought in townships." Sweden has over 3,000 old runestones, most of them over 1,000 years old.