Irish engineer John Philip Holland (1841-1914) stands in the hatch of a submarine. Holland developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine.

No wonder he's built like that

Housing ad from 1955

US infantry with tank support advance against Japanese positions on the Solomon Islands, March 1944

Looks like this guy has solved the parking problem 😎

Chocolate Falls

Yet, it's not chocolate, but just dirty water😔The Grand Falls is located in the United States on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

The streets of Constantinople (Istanbul), 1890s

Japan's airports, railway stations and subways have introduced a futuristic way to translate speech in real time.

The VoiceBiz UCDisplay glass interpreter recognises speech in 12 languages and displays the translation for two people at the same time. This helps foreigners navigate more easily without having to deal with the language barrier

The rare albino seal

Albino seals look more red than white. They are pure albino with no pigmentation even in their eyes.

March 9, 1862: One of the most famous naval battles in American history occurs as two ironclads, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia, fight to a draw off of Hampton Roads, Virginia. The Union and Confederate ships pounded each other all morning but their armor plates easily deflected the cannon shots, signaling a new era of steam-powered iron ships.

Crab Takeoff 🦀

Griffins live alone or in pairs. They gather in flocks only over large carrion like elephant or rhinoceros.

A Malay village in Singapore, c. 1900

Priest gets caught sniffing blow, then gets himself a lady friend to sniff some more.

The front teeth of giraffes are shovel-shaped, which determines their functional purpose: tearing leaves from branches.

Street and houses in Frankfurt, Germany, c. 1900

In London, a woman rides the tube every day and sits on the platform, just to hear the announcement her husband recorded back in 1950.

Kangaroos live about 6 years in the wild and more than 20 years in captivity.

The partially incinerated remains of Japanese civilians in Tokyo following a bombing raid during WWII, 10 March 1945