103 Pivotal Moments In Human History That Changed Our Course Forever

One Of The First "Drone Shots" In History, 1911

It Took 36 Years For This Archaeologist To Make The Most Accurate Model Of Ancient Rome

Vincas Juška, A Lithuanian Book Smuggler That Transported Language Books Into Lithuania, Circa Late 1800s

The Kailasa Temple At Ellora Was Built In The 8th Century

A Young Boy Playing The Banjo With His Dog, 1920

King Island Inuit Woman And Child, King Island, Alaska, Taken Between 1915 And 1925

No One Wants To Remember The Horrors Of War. Poland, Warsaw, 1946

Inky Paws Found On A 15th Century Manuscript

In 1912, Jim Thorpe Had His Running Shoes Stolen The Morning Of His Olympic Events. He Found This Mismatched Pair Of Shoes In The Garbage And Ran In Them To Win Two Olympic Gold Medals

Cracked And Faded Statue Of Vladimir Komarov, The First Human To Lose His Life During A Space Mission. Now Stands Forgotten At An Abandoned Children's Camp Outside Moscow

The Blue Void Earth’s Most Isolated Hemisphere, This Is The Pacific-Centered View Of Earth The Side We Rarely See In Maps Or Textbooks

A 1966 Photo From The Netherlands Dubbed The “Dutchiest Father Of All Time” Captures A Father Fully Embracing Classic Mid-1960s Dutch Practicality

In The Late 1800s, Explorers Photographing The Jungles Of Guatemala Captured This Image Of Stela K At Quiriguá, An Ancient Maya City Near The Motagua River

Inside Esna Temple, Luxor — 2,000-Year-Old Ceilings That Still Look Unreal

The World's Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship - The Pamir - Rounding Cape Horn, 1949

Members Of The Blackfoot Tribe Photographed In Glacier National Park, 1913

Photograph Of A Man Eating Rice, 1904

Algeria Is Home To Seven Unesco World Heritage Sites And Is The Second Country In The World With The Most Roman Ruins After Italy

Golden Chamber (Burial Chamber), The Reliefs Are Not Just Colors, But Are A Recessed And Relieved, Ultra-Precise Sculpture, Which Has Preserved Its Bright Colors For More Than 3000 Years

A Fishermen Returns With His Fish In Istanbul 1930s

1500 Year Old Ceramic Mayan Figure With Removable Helmet

An Ottoman Supply Train Still Resting Where It Was Ambushed By Lawrence Of Arabia Over 100 Years Ago On The Hejaz Railway

Colorized Image Of Young Boy Who Lost His Parents To A V2 Rocket London Wwii

A Bedouin Woman From Tunisia In 1907

Cueva De Las Manos (Cave Of The Hands) In The Río Pinturas Canyon In Southern Argentina, The Handprints Were Placed In Waves From 7,300 Bc All The Way To Ad 700

A Page From The Voynich Manuscript Written Sometime In The 1400s. The Book Has Unknown Plants And Is Written In A Language That Has Yet To Be Deciphered

Norwegian Storyteller Eiliv Braatene Spent Much Of His Life As A Wandering Vagabond, Carrying All His Possessions In A Tin Can And A Small Bundle, 1897

This Is What Mount Saint Helens Looked Like Before And After Its 1980 Eruption

Nagasaki, 20 Minutes After The Atomic Bombing In Japan, 1945

The First Ever Underwater Photograph Taken In The South Of France At A Depth Of 164 Feet By Louis Boutan In 1899

The Stadium At Aphrodisias In Modern Turkey, Built During The 1st Century Ad, Is Among The Best-Preserved Examples Of Ancient Greek Stadiums

Group Of Japanese Samurai In Front Of Egypt’s Sphinx, 1864

Woman Kneeling Next To Bed Of Child, In An Underground Tunnel During The Bombing Of London, World War II, January 1945

Norwegian Ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl And His Raft 'Kon-Tiki' Crossing The Pacific Ocean

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher Shot This Epic Photo Of The Eruption Of Mount St. Helens

A Migratory Mexican Field Worker Stands Beside His Makeshift Home Near A Pea Field In Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Classroom Doodles Of 6 Or 7 Yo Boy Onfim From Novgorod Around 800 Years Ago

Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Lost Its Fuselage Midair And Landed Safely On 28th April 1988

Astronaut Frank Culbertson, Aboard The Iss, Was The Only American To Witness The 9/11 Events From Space; His Historic Photograph Captures A Visible Plume Of Smoke Rising Over Manhattan

The Cosquer Cave Is A Palaeolithic Decorated Cave, Located In France, That Contains Numerous Cave Drawings Dating Back As Far As 27,000 Years Bp

The Only Surviving War Elephant Armour In The World From 17th Century India Displayed At The Royal Armouries Museum In Leeds, England

A Tree House Of The Koiari People, East Of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1886

Soviet Northern Explorer Nikolai Machulyak Feeds Polar Bears With Condensed Milk. Chukchi Sea, 1976

Native American Looking At The Newly Built Transcontinental Railroad, 1868

Leicester, England, 1950s. When Coal Was Very Much The Number One Energy Source

The Full-Scale Recreation Of The Roman Forum Built For The Filming Of ‘The Fall Of The Roman Empire’ (1964)

Last Eruption Of MT. Vesuvius,1944 - Colorised

Faces Of Passersby Upon Seeing The 9/11 Incident

Human Creativity 30,000 Years Ago, Prehistoric Cave Paintings Of Bhimbetka Rock Shelters (Unesco World Heritage Site)

Buddhas Of Bamiyan Statue In Afghanistan Before Its Destruction In 2001 By Taliban

When Humanity Tried To Ride Zebras: A Forgotten 1890–1940 Experiment That Failed Spectacularly

In 2003, Fast Attack Submarine Uss Connecticut (Ssn-22) Had Partly Surfaced In An Ice Pack When A Polar Bear Began To Lick And Paw The Exposed Rudder To Determine If It Was Worth Eating

Mihailo Tolotos, A Greek Orthodox Monk That Lived For 82 Years (1856 To 1938) Without Having Ever Seen A Woman In His Life

Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor And Meteorologist Charles Wright In The Entrance Of An Ice Grotto. Terra Nova Expedition, Ross Island, 5 January 1911. Photo Taken By Herbert Ponting

Empire State Building From New Jersey Before The City Grew Skyscrapers, 1930s

Aerial View Of Timber Blowdown, Destroyed By The May 18 Eruption Of Mount St. Helens, In Skamania County, Washington, On June 8, 1980

Chief John Smith Was An Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian Who Lived In The Area Of Cass Lake, Minnesota. He Passed In 1922 At The (Alleged) Ripe Old Age Of 137

During The 19th Century, Rich British Landowners Ordered Exaggerated Portraits Of Their Livestock As Symbols Of Wealth, Frequently Depicting Them With Unusually Large Rectangular Bodies

Heliphants, Indian Air Force Helicopter Unit 116 Were Hal Chetak Helicopters Covered With Elephant-Shaped Decorations Used In Air Displays, 1970s

Vision Of The Future In The 1930's Soviet Futurism Art, Electro-Magnetic Rapid Transit System

Intricate Marble Carvings Inside The Luna Vasahi Temple, Part Of The Renowned Dilwara Temples In Mount Abu, Photographed Circa 1948

The First Self Portrait In Space, Taken By Buzz Aldrin In 1966

A Young American Boy Examines Radioactive Samples From A Chemistry Set In 1950, Wearing Headphones Connected To A Geiger Counter Sensitive Enough To Detect Radiation From A Wristwatch

Engraved Handprints On White Mountain Wyoming, Sacred To The Shoshone, Arapaho And Ute Tribes Today

There Is A Spacecraft Graveyard In The South Pacific Ocean Known As“Point Nemo”, It Is The Furthest Place On The Earth From Land

President John F. Kennedy Leans Over His Desk In This Iconic Photo, Dubbed "The Lonliest Job." February 11, 1961

Belka The Space Dog Upon Returning From Her Cosmic Voyage. Ussr, August 1960

A Polar Bear Cub And Child Meet, (1975), Wrangel Island, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Sfsr

Native American Rock Art In The Lower Pecos Canyonlands Of Texas And Northern Mexico, With A Tradition Lasting Over 4,000 Years And Beginning Nearly 6,000 Years Ago

Robert Cornelius, Takes The First Self Image In Front Of His Shop In Philadelphia (1839)

Boy Selling Apples Beside A Road In North Carolina, 1934 (During The Great Depression). Photo By Bayard Wootten

A Mississippi River Pearl Diver, Using A Car’s Old Gas Tank For A Helmet, Prepares To Descend Into The River. 1938

Series Of Photos Of Calcutta, British India Taken In 1860s By Samuel Bourne Titled "Views Of Calcutta And Barrackpore", Colourised

Man With A Mask - By Peter Ondreička

Astronaut Chimpanzee, Ham, Gets An Apple After His First Successful Flight Into Space 31 January 1961 By NASA, Ham Was The First American Primate In Space

The Information Desk At Idlewild Airport (Now Jfk), Designed By Eero Saarinen, 1956

Soviet Soldiers Feeding A Polar Bear From Their Tank, 1950

Woman Standing Next To Redwood Tree, 1950s, Redwood Tree Is One Of The Tallest And Oldest Tree Species On Earth, Native Mainly To California And Parts Of Oregon

64,000 Years Ago In What Is Now Spain’s La Pasiega Cave, A Neanderthal Drew This Image

Winter In Times Square, 1947

Frozen Niagara Falls, Around 1905

An Aerial Photo Of The Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong Taken In 1989. The Walled City Contained 50,000 Residents Within Its 2.6-Hectare (6.4-Acre) Borders. It Was Demolished In 1994

Space Shuttle Endeavour Silhouetted Against Earth’s Horizon As It Approaches The International Space Station For Docking During The Sts-130 Mission

In 1930, Brothers John And Kenneth Hunter Set An Aviation Record With A 23-Day Nonstop Flight

Bab Souika Square In Tunis, Tunisia (1899)

A Hiker Admiring MT. St. Helens, 1952

At The Greenhouse Of The "Decorative Cultures" State Farm, (1980s), Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkarian Assr

Tourist And His Car At The Edge Of The Grand Canyon. Arizona, USA. 1914

A Third Class Ticket Of Titanic In 1912

Children In Front Of World’s Largest Log Cabin In Portland, Oregon, USA 1938. Built In 1905 Burned Down In 1964

Trainees Donning Makeshift Astronaut Suits Marching Through Zambian Villages

On October 16, 1964, China Carried Out Its First Successful Nuclear Detonation, Becoming The 5th Country In The World To Develop Nuclear Weapons

Deep Sea Diver With An Umbrella, 1949

Bab El Bhar (Porte De France) Surrounded By Shops, Tunis,1895

Huge Formation Of American Planes Over Uss Missouri And Tokyo Bay Celebrating The Signing, 2 September 1945

A 100-Foot Trestle Built In Washington In 1906 To Haul Logs After A Forest Fire—traces Of These Structures Still Remain In The Pacific Northwest Forests

Picture Of Mahabodhi Temple Before (1879) vs. During (1883) vs. After (1899) Its Restoration, It Is The Site Where Gautam Buddha Attained Enlightenment

Latitude 41' 46n And Longitude 50' 14w, The Place Where The Titanic Sank (Atlantic Ocean 1912)

Gladys Roy And Ivan Unger Play Tennis On The Wing Of A Biplane In Flight, 1925

Las Vegas Nevada: Flash Of A Atomic Bomb Test Taken On The Early Morning Of June 24, 1957. The Blast Was 65 Miles Away

A Family Poses In Front Of A 1,341 Year Old Sequoia Tree Nicknamed “Mark Twain” That Was Felled In 1892 After A Team Of Two Men Spent 13 Days Sawing It In The Pacific Northwest. The Giant Tree Was 331 Feet Tall (100 Meters)it Was Cut Down To "Prove Such A Large Tree Existed"

A Surreal View From New York City, 1982. (65 W 54th St, Taken From The Warwick Hotel)

To Study The Medical Effects Of Weightlessness In Space, Scientists Convinced Captain Druey P. Parks To Toss A Kitten In The Air While Cruising In His F-94c Jet At An Altitude Of 25,000 Feet