Abraham Lincoln, May 1860

Sharbat Gula, the “Afghan Girl” - 1985 to 2002

The sparrowfish or pinnacle fish is a marine fish of the roundworm family.

A priest on the road near Konitsa, Greece, 1913

The way this boulder explodes upon impact

Mothers of young giraffes often organize a nursery: one adult female stays behind to look after the cubs, while the rest of the crowd goes to get food.

Fresco from Pompeii depicting a Roman dinner party, 1st century AD. In the lower left a small slave boy in a white tunic helps the master with his shoes; the slave in the center offers him a drink; and another slave supports a vomiting guest who has overindulged.

🌉 Suspension bridges in bad weather can behave like this

And this is normal - the design allows for such operating conditions

Nam Pan Market is a bazaar located in Myanmar, with a boat "parking" near it, and that's the only way to get to this bazaar

English actress and singer Lily Elsie, c. 1910s

Flying stingrays at sunset.

All of the seals are living relics that have survived on Earth since the late Tertiary period (about 65 million years ago)😱

A man visits a mass grave of those killed in the Farhud, 1946.
On June 1st 1941, a two-day massacre began of hundreds of Baghdad’s Jews that led to the eventual exodus of Jews from Iraq to Israel.

In 2014, an Arizona man escaped from prison to meet his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. He crawled past razor wire, scaled two fences, and traveled to a bar about 10 miles away.

The scorpionfish is a species of marine scorpionfish belonging to the kerchak family.

🇬🇧 Traffic outside the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange in the financial district of London, 1896 (colourised)

Zimbabwe will shoot 200 elephants because of food shortages caused by drought.

The last time something like this happened was in 1988.

Meet the white leafhopper, a species of bat in the monotypic genus Ectophylla of the leafhopper family that lives in Central and South America.

Worship at an African-American church, 1930s

The amount of meat from one single cow