Sara Forbes Bonetta, ward and goddaughter of Queen Victoria, 1862. She was a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people in West Africa, who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey as a child, and was later enslaved by King Ghezo of Dahomey. She was given as a "gift" to Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and later became a goddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Icon Of The Seas, The Largest Cruise Ship Ever, at 365 meters long

A captured German Taube monoplane, on display in the courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris, in 1915. The Taube was a pre-World War I aircraft, only briefly used on the front lines, replaced later by newer designs.

I've never seen a practical application of the greedy cup.

Allied troops participate in a church service under the shade of trees in France following the Normandy invasion, June 1944

Melting steel with electricity.

Nazi troops await the order to pull down a bust of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938.

Austrian Uhlans charge Italian Bersaglieri during the Battle of Custoza on 24 June 1866 during the Third Italian War of Independence. The Austrian Imperial army, joined by the Venetian Army, jointly commanded by Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, defeated the Italian army, led by Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora and Enrico Cialdini.

Archaeologists Discover 300-Year-Old Cannons from a Lost French Fort in Texas!

🇳🇱 A street musician playing an accordion on a rainy day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1930s

It's just physics

Scene in Mons, Belgium when the Canadian army arrived in 1917 shortly before the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Crowds welcomed the Canadian soldiers who were piped through the streets by Canadian pipers.

🔮 Mexican dancing on a high pole

Sketch of an early steam engine from the 1820s-1830s making its way through the American South.

Us Navy warship firing a secret laser weapon named "Helios"

Anny-Yolande Horowitz (born 1933, killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942). She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a rosy complexion.

South Korean Beatboxer Wing Displays Insane Beatboxing Skills.

🇬🇧 Girls on a carousel, London, 1920s (Colourised)

A neural network has brought Van Gogh's paintings to life.

Living impressionism is literally mesmerising.

🇵🇱 Members of the Polish Home Army riding on a captured German Schützenpanzerwagen during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944