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.

Record listening booths at an HMV store in London, 1954.

A married couple stands in front of their charming house on the Nebraska prairie in the 1800s.

Kate Ward, a famous dog lover from Camberley, UK, poses with a bunch of stray dogs she had rescued and was caring for in 1967.

A woman reads to her 6-year-old child through a basement window during a 1949 polio epidemic quarantine

Mental health in the past: A patient in a restraint chair in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire, 1869

The opening day of Yankee Stadium on April 18th, 1923. The opening game was played against the Boston Red Sox.

The terrible toll of storming a beach - U.S. Marines at Tarawa, November 1943