A colorized portrait of an official royal executioner from Rewah (Madhya Pradesh), Central India, dating from around 1898–1903. He is clad in armor studded with prominent metal spikes, wears a crown like headdress featuring similar spikes, and holds a large "tulwar" sword.
Dora Ratjen, a German high jumper at the 1936 Olympics, was later revealed to have been born male but raised as female. Always believing he was male, Dora changed his name to Heinrich and lived under that name until his death in 2008.
Preserved architecture: Oxford in 1810 and nowadays. The first image is the "High Street, Oxford" oil painting by J. M. W. Turner that was exhibited in 1810. The second one shows the same street photographed recently by David Fisher.
A tenant farmer and his family gather around the table for dinner in McLeansboro, Illinois, 1937, sharing a meal amid the hardship and poverty of the Great Depression.