Ibis

They played a vital role in the ancient Egyptians’ culture, who depicted the god Thoth with the head of an ibis.

🇨🇭The little mountain village of Engelberg, Switzerland, c. 1890s, photochrome

Curug Ngebul is a waterfall in West Java, Indonesia.

Father Damien with lepers on Molokai. He ministered to the lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai for many years, eventually contracting the disease himself but continuing his work nonetheless until his death in 1889.

Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion died today aged 103. She survived the Holocaust by buying the identity papers of a Christian girl and working as a maid in the countryside.

Black Beach in Iceland – Reynisfjara 🇮🇸

Four French colonial soldiers from Senegal, WWI, original autochrome colour photo

Meet the welbike, a small motorcycle designed and used by British paratroopers in WW2

Wombats resemble tiny bears.

They spend a large part of their lives underground, thus it is not an easy task to meet a wombat during the day. In the daytime, they rest in their burrows, but at night they leave the hole to gorge themselves.

Women outside of Doulagh’s Church on the Malahide Road, Dublin, Ireland, ca. 1860s

A child prodigy from India has set a world record — he mentally added 100 four-digit numbers in 30.9 seconds. Aaron Shukla used the method of mental calculations

Unusual butterflies Lamprotera meges with long "spurs" on their hind wings, and from the frequency of their sweeps resemble dragonflies.

Hitler and Goering examine a piece of looted art, 1940s

Male Lions in the Tsavo region are known for having short manes and sometimes even maneless. They're also known for having heightened levels of testosterone.

Chu Ko Nu

The chu ko nu was last seen in the Sino-Japanese wars of 1894-1895, after the appearance of firearms. The average crossbow fired 10 arrows in 15 seconds.

Women in Turkish dress, 1923

Egypt then and now

The Mole

This subterranean inhabitant is typically invisible: it gives away its annexation only by pieces of loose soil on the grass.

Samurai of the Satsuma Clan, during the Boshin War period, Japan (1868–1869)

Experiment with quartz beaker, microwave oven and magnesium. As a result, we can observe a clot of plasma.

(Not to be repeated at home)