A new type of tandem at Alexandra Palace, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). June 1936...
Canadian-Israeli film director Simcha Jacobovici holds two nails during a press conference on April 12, 2011. Jacobovici believes that the two nails discovered in a Jerusalem cave were used in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Jacobovici claims that the nails were tracked to an archeology laboratory in Tel Aviv, and though cannot be 100 per cent certain that they are the nails used in the crucifixion of Jesus, he claims if [you put two and two together and they seem to imply that these are the nails]. Experts at the Israel Antiquities Authority though cast doubt on Jacobovicis claims,...
A student of the department for aritificial intelligence at the Freie Universitaet Berlin steers a converted Dodge minivan remotely with an iPhone during a demonstration at Tempelhof Airport on November 2, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The car, whose design was led by professor Raul Rojas, is outfitted with a variety of laser sensors, GPS antennae and computers. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)...
Kangba women carry barrels to fetch water at a village on April 10, 2005 in Zuogong County of Tibet, China. Kangba people began to fetch water with the traditional barrels hundreds of years ago. Kangba people are one of the Tibetan tribes living in Kangba Region, a juncture area of Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Kangba people are famous for their beauty, toughness and straightforwardness. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)...
A Mark IV tank, part of the parade at the Lord Mayors Show in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). November 1917...
[The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the [Battle of Stepney], was a notorious gunfight in Londons East End on the 2nd of January 1911. Preceded by the Houndsditch Murders, it ended with the deaths of two members of a supposedly politically-motivated gang of burglars supposedly led by Peter Piatkow, a.k.a. [Peter the Painter], and sparked a major political row over the involvement of the then Home Secretary, Winston Churchill]. – Wikipedia
Photo: Scots Guards and police on duty during the [Siege of Sidney Street] in east London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty...
A Tibetan rider fires his weapon as he perfoms his riding skills at the Qinghai Yushu Horse Racing Festival on July 27, 2007 in Yushu County of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, northwest China. The Horse Racing Festival of Tibetan nomads in Yushu Prefecture falls in late July and early August on the Tibetan calendar. During the festival, various equestrian skills will be performed along with singing, dancing and costume shows. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)...
Ernie Lotinga, looking terrified as a gun is pointed in his face, in a scene from the play [My Wifes Family], at the Garrick Theatre, London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 24th February 1941...
[Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American space transport company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, both of which are built with a goal of being reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX is also developing the Dragon spacecraft to be carried to orbit by Falcon 9 launch vehicles. SpaceX designs, tests and fabricates the majority of their components in-house, including the Merlin, Kestrel, and Draco rocket engines. In December 2010, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a...
Two dummy tanks being pushed along a road by German soldiers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1925...