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She was brought to the U.S. aboard the Clotilda as a two-year-old in 1860, and is believed to be buried in an unmarked grave at the Martin Station Cemetery near Safford, Alabama. (From: The last slave ship survivor and her descendants identified) New York, USA: Before the pandemic, photographer Elias Williams would often hear people passing ...
Korean People's Army (KPA) soldier Lieutenant Kim poses for a portrait on the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom, within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea. Photographs by Ed Jones.
Kathleen Revis. A father shows his child the blossoms at Sherwood Gardens, Maryland, in the mid-1950s. A portion of the May 1956 issue was dedicated to the vibrant blooms that appear every May in the garden since its genesis in the 1920s. In this picture from the February 1959 issue, teenaged skiing phenom Starr Walton competes in a downhill ...
The cemetery of Okunoin is one of the largest in the world and is best explored on an atmospheric night tour. Kumano Nachi Taisha is one of three shrines connected by Wakayama's Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trails. It sits beside Nachi Falls, the tallest single-tiered waterfall in Japan.
The planet Mercury is named after the messenger of the Roman gods because of its fleeting nature across the sky. Find out the reason behind its incredible speed, if it is indeed the hottest planet in the Solar System, and why this smallest of our neighbouring planets is slowly shrinking.
Winfield Parks. Women section grapefruits with knives on an assembly line in Lake Wales, Florida. The photograph was taken for a story in the December 1963 issue on the industrial boom in Florida following the space race. A bartender serves up a pint of stout at a pub in Brodick, Arran Island, Scotland. The island of Arran, located off the west ...
A solar eclipse is coming this summer. Here’s where to see it. 4 May 2019. By Valerie Stimac. Chile; Argentina ...
According to news reports, 34 people died and 50 were injured. One man was rescued after being trapped for six hours beneath the rubble. In January 1929 snow trapped the Orient Express near Constantinople (Istanbul) for days. The passengers, close to dying of hunger and cold, escaped the train by digging a tunnel through the snow.
Best of August 2018. Your Shot photographer Emilia Wilgosz-Peter's daughter Laura loves space. "To be an astronaut is my daughter's dream," she says. Emilia and her husband drove Laura 300 miles to see an exhibit in Warsaw, Poland, called Gateway to Space, where Laura got to pose inside an astronaut suit. "She reads many books about science and ...
Horseback riders, or chapandazan, battle for control of a goat carcass during a buzkashi match in Dawlatabad, Afghanistan, on March 16, 2017. The former...
