Shepherds in Gascony, France wearing traditional stilts called tchangues (“big legs”) that allowed them to walk on marshy ground, ca. 1895 [665×729]

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The unfinished Cologne Cathedral in 1856, including the enormous medieval crane which had topped the south tower since construction stopped in the 1400s [1076×960]

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Finnish soldiers using a temporarly Sauna during the Continuation War, 1944 (800×582)

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A M41 Walker Bulldog tank in front of the National Congress during the 1964 coup d’etat. Brasilia, Brazil. March 31, 1964. [1280×877]

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Attack of ETA against the headquarters house of the Civil Guard in Vic (Barcelona) that caused nine deaths, four of them girls 1991. (980×718)

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Post-office built into the city walls of Kano, Northern Nigeria, 1941 [594×399]

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