Dresden was widely considered a gem of German Baroque architecture before World War II. In 1945, it lost its status when the joint British and American air strikes flattened its entire central part ...

Military sleeve insignia can tell much more about the soldiers than their affiliation with a regiment or battalion. We have gathered some unusual insignia and found out how they came to be and what ...

The rebuilding of Warsaw in the 1940s is a prime example of post-war city reconstruction. After six years of bombing and the destruction at the hands of retreating Germans, the Poles managed to not ...

Art photographer Michael Wesely films life in one frame – from photographs of flowers with a week-long exposure to a year-long architecture reconstruction.

British intelligence reports that the Russians are using combat dolphins to guard the Sevastopol Bay – it seems there's little left to surprise us in this war. However, dolphins and other marine ...

В 2003 году американский альпинист Арон Ралстон отправился на прогулку по каньонам Юты. Но обычная вылазка превратилась в 127-часовое испытание, которое заставило мужчину ампутировать собственную руку ...

The Lebanese Civil War ravaged Beirut, dividing it into the Christian and Muslim parts. The post-war reconstruction aimed to restore the city to its former Paris of the East glory, albeit city ...

Volvo create a video called the ABC of Death, featuring the stories of several people who died in different ways. The footage is accompanied with a song that explains what is happening on screen: ...

Bird in Flight уже рассказывал, как блеснуть знаниями в архитектуре и отличить ...

У Пакистані та Афганістані століттями існує практика бача-базі — вид сексуального рабства і проституції підлітків. Фотограф Барат Алі Батур задокументував будні таких дорослих хлопчиків, які стали вже ...

Silk soaked in wax and plaster that replaced the decayed skin, bones connected with piano strings and wire, body stuffed with rags, a wig from hair cut before death and glass eyes — this was what Carl ...

A century ago a fascist party led by Benito Mussolini came into power in Italy. Mussolini ruled the country for two decades and tried to build his “Third Rome”, using the architecture of Ancient Rome ...