Sherlock Pope 
The Great Madras Famine of 1876–1878 affected a major part of south India. It caused distress to a population totaling 58,500,000, and eventually took the lives of an estimated 5.5 million women, men and children. A root cause of the Great Famine may have been caused by an intense drought resulting in crop failure in … Read more
Everyone’s in a hurry these days. Wherever you live, you will find rush hour traffic in every country in the world. Below are interesting photos that show the rush hour situations in different countries like you’ve probably never seen it before. Beijing, China © twitter Dhaka, Bangladesh © fm Venice, Italy © kiitdoo [wp_ad_camp_1] Chhattisgarh, … Read more
Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces with gas masks and rubber gloves during a chemical attack, Battle of Shanghai (1937) Japanese marines landed north and south of Shanghai, China. Although chemical weapons were prohibited by international laws, the Imperial Japanese Army were still using them when they attacked China. The incredible photo above shows a perfect … Read more
The Battle of Dunkirk was for the defense and evacuation of British and Allied forces in Europe from May 26 to June 4, 1940. Following the events at Dunkirk, the German forces regrouped before commencing an operation called Fall Rot (“Case Red”), a renewed assault southward. Although two fresh British divisions had begun moving to … Read more
The British Concorde fleet at London Heathrow Airport, January 21, 1986. The occasion was the 10-year anniversary of British Concorde flight service, which began in 1976. Photo credit: British Airways First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued commercially for 27 years. With a cruising speed of 1,350 mph (2,180 km/h at … Read more
An iconic photo “Bloody Saturday” showing a crying baby amid the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station after a Japanese air strike against civilians on August 28, 1937 The “Bloody Saturday” photo became known as a cultural icon demonstrating Japanese wartime atrocities in China. Photographer H. S. “Newsreel” Wong took the photo a few … Read more