Sometimes turtles confuse the land and the back of a hippopotamus.

German soldiers publicly executing prominent Polish citizens in the Market Square of Bydgoszcz, as part of the mass shootings of Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) after the invasion of Poland, 9 September 1939. The mass murder operations of the Intelligenzaktion resulted in the killing of 100,000 Polish people in the early days of WWII.

A flower show in Aberdeen, Scotland, King Charles opening it and the wily scissors.

As it turns out, giraffes are very touchy animals.

Soldiers of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), wait to be picked up by US Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopters to take them back to Nui Dat after the completion of Operation Ulmarra, Vietnam War, 1967.

The slamming of the soap cylindrical membrane in the slow-mo.

Quokkas live in small families

Families consist of a male leading the pack, several females, and cubs.

10 September 1622: A group of 55 Christians are killed at Nagasaki by the new government of Japan, which saw Christians as being a threat to Japanese society. The victims included Europeans, Japanese, and Koreans. Over 100,000 more were eventually killed during the 16th-17th centuries for their Christian faith. The remaining Christians in Japan at that time either recanted or went into hiding.

North Korean Generals

A family outside their mountain cabin in West Virginia, c. 1900

Art with your hands

A Sephardi Jewish couple from Sarajevo in traditional clothing, 1900

A simple, yet effective trick

When exposed to ultraviolet rays, scorpions begin to glow.

Construction of one of the twin towers at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York City, 1970. In the background at right is the Empire State Building

Norwegian fjords are an ideal place for a wingsuit.

At present, the world population of polar bears is between 20 and 25 thousand, and its numbers are gradually decreasing.

🇬🇧 King George VI and the Queen Mother survey the aftermath of a German bombing raid in September 1940 which destroyed Buckingham Palace chapel.

Dude made neural nets play Charades - one model draws an SVG image and the others try to guess what it is.