En la imagen, cuatro niños pequeños están sentados acurrucados en los escalones afuera de una casa en Chicago, detrás de un letrero que dice “4 niños en venta, pregunte dentro”.

Esta es la historia de los 16 sobrevivientes del vuelo 571 de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya, que fue fletado para llevar a un equipo de rugby amateur de Montevideo a Santiago, Chile, y terminó en tragedia (y milagro).

Éste es el buque de transporte Queen Elisabeth. El Queen Elizabeth y el Queen Mary se utilizaron como buques de transporte de tropas en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Una extensa publicación en Facebook, que afirma falsamente que los irlandeses fueron vendidos sistemáticamente como esclavos en el siglo XVII, ya ha sido compartida más de un millón de veces. El mensaje es una tontería y una imagen mal utilizada de los mineros belgas. La trata de esclavos irlandeses comenzó cuando 30.000 prisioneros políticos irlandeses fueron enviados a Estados Unidos y vendidos a ingleses […]

The lives of Chinese people in the late Qing Dynasty, old photos help the public have a realistic perspective on a past historical period.

Today marks the birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, beloved author of Alice in Wonderland. Here are some fascinating photographs from his lifetime

A MAN who hit world headlines for having just half a head has been charged with attempted murder.

1910 – Submarine Armor by Chester E. Macduffee. In 1914 a diver in the new armored diving suit went down to a depth of 212 ft. in Long Island Sound, establishing a new American record.

This little promo truck re-created from the before photo to the after photo. An extremely unique showpiece that commands serious attention – the early photos …

The year is 1926. New York City, a fledgling metropolis, is reaching for the sky. One symbol of this ambition is the Woolworth Building, a …

The locomotive had just been unhooked from the El Capitan passenger train from Chicago at 8:45 a.m. on Jan. 25, 1948, when the accident occurred.

Fyodor Makhnov wasn’t just a giant. He was a real strongman!

Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives”In the early 1890s, about a third of Washington’s population worked in logging camps, sawmills, shingle mills, and in factories making wooden …

On May 22, 1968, the American nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion, went missing with 99 men aboard on her way back to Norfolk, Virginia. Scorpion left New London, Connecticut, in February 1968 with a goal of reaching the Mediterranean Sea for a two-month European deployment, the Naval History and Heritage Command writes. However, they continue, she last radioed her position on May 21, 1968. She was lost southwest of the Azores, a group of islands about 950 miles west of mainland Portugal, on May 22, the US Navy reports.

Policing the state’s first highways

It’s amazing to see how our minds can wander in different ways; how imaginations can wander from a single picture. We recently proposed a new challenge for our readers to become the storyteller, prompted by a historical found photograph with very little information about its author, or the subject i

Accompanying the text are numerous vintage photographs of timber trestles that no longer exist, providing a glimpse into a bygone era of engineering and transportation.

Well, that looked dangerous.

Discover the Catalina House Boat, a WWII-era aircraft turned into a unique dwelling. See how the Allies repurposed their resources for life beyond war.

In 1902 the American author Jack London visited his namesake city – at the time when it was still the largest in the world. In a book that became to be known as The People of the Abyss he described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and … Continue reading “Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902”