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"Dark Annie" - Victim of Jack the Ripper
Annie Chapman, also known as "Dark Annie," was born in September of 1841.  Her name, at that time, was Eliza Anne Smith.  In 1888, she was 45-years-old, stood five feet tall, had pallid complexion, blue eyes, dark brown (and wavy) hair and a thick nose.  People who knew her, in the la...
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"Day in Infamy" - Changes to First Draft of Speech
President Roosevelt's first choice of words, in his famous December 8th speech, was not "day in infamy."  This facsimile, of his marked-up draft, reveals the original sentence began:  "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world history ... Click on the image for a better...
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"Glowing Eye"
The Hubble orbiting telescope spotted this "glowing eye" in April of 2000.  It is in the constellation Aquila.  NASA provides the following information about this amazing picture:April 6, 2000: The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. The ...
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"Inhumanity of Dealers in Human Flesh"
This engraved print, by George Cruikshank, has a lengthy caption: "The Abolition of the Slave Trade, Or the inhumanity of dealers in human flesh exemplified in Captn. Kimber's treatment of a young Negro girl of 15 for her virjen [sic] modesty." John Kimber was the captain of Recovery, a slaver owned...
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"JEB" Stuart - Confederate Cavalry Officer
This photo depicts the famous Confederate cavalry officer, Brigadier General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart.  This image is from the National Archives' Civil-War photograph collection.  Click on it to substantially increase its size.  
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"Long Liz" Stride - Victim of Jack the Ripper
Elizabeth Stride, also known as "Long Liz," was born in Sweden (on a farm called Stora Tumlehed) in November of 1843.  In 1888, she was 45-years old, stood 5' 4" tall, and had light-gray eyes, dark-brown (curly) hair, pale skin and missing teeth (in her lower-left jaw).  People who knew he...
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"Magic Bullet" Found at Parkland Hospital
The photo depicts the so-called "magic bullet" which was found on a stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital.  The Warren Commission determined that this bullet, mildly flattened but mostly undamaged, first passed through the President's back and neck, then hit Governor Connally where it broke ...
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"Mog," in 1993
This photograph of Mogadishu, in 1993, was taken by one of the Rangers assigned to the city during Operation Restore Hope.
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"No Trespassing" Sign - Posted by Japanese Government
The island of Iwo Jima is located 660 nautical miles south of Tokyo.  One of three groups of islands comprising the Nanpo Shoto (an island  chain extending 750 miles south of the Tokyo-Bay entrance to approximately 300 miles of the Marianas), Iwo (like the other islands of this chain) came...
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"Skull of Doom"
This skull artifact is known as the "Skull of Doom" and the "Mitchell-Hedges Skull."  It is made of clear quartz, is five inches (thirteen centimeters) high, seven inches (eighteen cm) long and five inches (thirteen cm) wide.  About the size of a small human cranium, the object cannot be c...
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