An American marine tries to communicate with 2 captured Japanese child soldiers in 1945

The world’s first nonstop solo transatlantic flight ends, as Charles Lindbergh makes his landing in Le Bourget Field, Paris on May 21, 1927

Harry Houdini, an illusionist who despised the false antics of claimed mystics, exposes the trickery behind talking to spirits to a New York clergymen in 1925

The giant howitzer, named “Big Bertha”, with the Germans on the Western Front in 1915

A photo of the Pantheon in Rome, completed in 125 AD, one of the best-preserved Ancient Roman Buildings, taken in 1860

Italian army logistics for lowering artillery to the ground forces in the Alps during World War I, between 1914 and 1918

Children crowd together in a New York City school, in 1888

Members of the British Army’s Corps of Royal Engineers, also known as British Sappers, being trained to defuse mines blindly so they can do so in the dark when necessary, in 1943

At an elementary school in Berlin, students are made to pay tribute to the then Nazi-leader Adolf Hitler, in 1934

Queen Genepil (1905-1938), the last queen of Mongolia, who along with a heavy portion of the Mongolian population, was executed as a part of the systematic destruction of their culture

The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, 1900

Walter Thornton sells his car on Black Tuesday, the last day of the stock market crash on October 29th, 1929

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s address on the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. October 28, 1936

King George VI Rides With His Daughters Elizabeth (Later Queen Elizabeth II) & Princess Margaret In Windsor Great Park on 21st April 1939

Hindenburg - future president of Germany, 1915

The tallest, the shortest and the fattest men of Europe playing a game of cards, 1913

A US soldier stands amid crates and stacks of loot stored by Nazi Germany in Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Bavaria, 1945

The mining ghost town of Eureka in San Juan County, Colorado

Twins become mothers together for the second time in less than two years. Washington, D.C., April 7, 1939

Florence Norman, a British activist and suffragist, rides her scooter in London, 1916.

Ashtrays and coin-operated televisions in the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal, 1969.