November 14, 2015 at 11:56 am
Picture of the Day: With Paris
Buildings around the world paid tribute to the victims of the attacks in Paris, France, projecting the colors of the French flag onto their façades.
Buildings around the world paid tribute to the victims of the attacks in Paris, France, projecting the colors of the French flag onto their façades.
He pulled up on a bike with a piano attached and just started playing.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow; Between the crosses, row on row
Located in Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium, the Lion’s Mound is a large conical hill with a lion statue at the peak that commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball struck William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) in the shoulder.
Since 1945 there have been a staggering 2,153 nuclear detonations on our planet.
The rules were altered, pieces were replaced and a spinner was used in lieu of dice.
On 1 July 2016, Sir Nicholas Winton passed away at the age of 106. He is credited with saving the lives of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII.
Captain Jack Tueller recounts the time he played a famous German love song for a lone sniper still at large, two weeks after D-Day. You can read more about Captain Tueller’s incredible story at this CNN article from 2009.
The video quality is astonishing. Fascinating HD color video shows the situation of the city in summer 1945, just after the Second World War and the capitulation of Germany. Daily life after years of war. Pictures from the destroyed city, the Reichstag, Brandenburger Tor, Adlon, Führerbunker, Unter den Linden, rubble women working in the…
Last summer, reddit user MisterBrick found a collection of photos from WWII of his hometown of Dijon, France. As a photo project, he decided to reshoot the pictures to show what the places look like today, 70 years later. If you’re digging this series, you can find many more “then and now” projects featured…
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