Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
This image depicts a 1906 photo of Vesuvius erupting.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, a British artist who lived between 1775-1851, created this watercolor called “Vesuvius in Eruption” sometime betwee...
Mt. Vesuvius, an Italian landmark and one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, exists because it is located on a fault line running across Italy...
Themistocles - an Athenian leader in 480 B.
This image is from the October 10, 1846 issue of the London Pictorial Times. It illustrates a time of despair in Ireland, during what has come to be k...
Germany frequently used mobile launchers (instead of fixed sites) for the V-2, making it very difficult for Allied bombers to find - and eliminate - l...
This image depicts a fresco which was discovered in a Pompeii home known as the House of the Centenary.
Pyroclastic flows, originating from an erupting volcano, travel and are exceedingly dangerous. In this image, we see a pyroclastic flow at Mt. St. Hel...
Japanese officials, who feared an Allied invasion of Palawan Island (in the Philippines) ordered a massacre of American servicemen during December of ...
This map depicts the general location of trenches along the Western Front during World War I.
As Hitler's troops systematically destroyed Warsaw, it was becoming clear that Stalin also wanted the Poles crushed.
In August of 1944, Poles in Warsaw decided to massively resist German forces still in their city.
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