A lady in evening dress, 1926

Nazis burn books in Berlin, May 1933

🚽 It's best not to stay out too long

A toilet in the Arctic that doesn't flush waste, but burns it.

Epibulus insidator

After spotting prey, it doesn't chase it, simply thrusts its tube-shaped lower jaw forward and engulfs its prey.

🇫🇷 The Malavaux near Vichy, France, c. 1890s, photochrome

Lantern Floating Hawaii is an annual ceremony held on Memorial Day at Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu, USA.

The reveller butterfly feeds on sweet nectar.

Yet the flowers cannot bear the weight of its heavy abdomen: so the reveller doesn't land on petals, but rather hovers nearby, winging rapidly.

🇮🇹 Queen Margherita of Italy, wife of King Umberto I, c. 1870s

In 2010, the Bitcoin Faucet website gave away 5 bitcoins to every visitor who passed a captcha.

Although raccoons are immune to most infectious diseases, they can be carriers.

Illustration from French newspaper Le Petit Parisien of an Arab man examining African slaves at market, 1907.
Arab slavers brought 7-10 million captives from Africa to the Middle East as slaves during the Trans-Saharan slave trade until the trade was mostly abolished in the 20th century. However the term “abd” (meaning “slave”) is still used as a slur for black people by many Arabs to this day.

This chicken can lay eggs on command.

This majestic animal usually travels alone, the Lynx hunts mostly at night and is most active during the periods of dawn and dusk.

James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, holds an early ball and basket used for the game at an unspecified date sometime prior to 1939.

Impressive tunnel in Miami, USA.

Crested canaries and their stylish hairstyles

🇺🇸 A Memorial Day parade, New York, c. 1940 or 1941

The Caiman turtle, known for its aggressiveness, is trying to catch its lunch.

Otters close their eyes, so the daylight cannot disturb them while they sleep.

Jefferson Shields, former body servant and Confederate veteran who fought in the Stonewall Brigade during the Civil War, c. 1910s. He attended many Confederate reunions and was buried with a military grave marker that reads "Jefferson Shields, Pvt. Co. H 27th Va. Inf., Stonewall Brigade, Confederate States Army".

It turns out that alligators can be very affectionate