Members of the Imperial Guard of Iran, an 18,000-strong elite unit of the Iranian military devoted to protecting the Shah, 1975. They were often referred to as “the Immortals” after the legendary corps of bodyguards who protected the ancient Emperors of Persia (1190×850)May 22, 2026
Doctor checks on a Hiroshima bombing survivor, 2 years after. Hiroshima, Japan, 1947[793×1000]May 22, 2026
John Wesley Hardin, American Wild West outlaw and gunfighter who claimed 42 kills, photographed c. 1871 [900×900]May 22, 2026
Destroyed streets in Valdivia, Chile following the Great Chilean Earthquake, May 22, 1960 [1536 × 864]May 22, 2026
Driving the final spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Craigellachie, British Columbia 7. November 1885 [1600×1170]May 22, 2026
East German border buoy (with the flag of the official state emblem – a hammer and compass with a rye wreath) – on the Havel River near Potsdam, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), c. 1989. [736 x 485]May 22, 2026
85 years ago… “Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980) cycling on the rainy Champs-Élysées”; France – Paris, 1941 (WW2) [1677×1605]May 22, 2026
