The image is a compilation of two different images. Both depict the Italian cavalry in the Albania mountainous region where my great-grandfather spent much of his military time. The image on the left shows the muddy conditions, while the image on the…
A recovered part of the original Japanese Type B cipher machine, codenamed "Purple" by the United States, on display at the National Cryptologic Museum in Washington DC.
Photograph capturing the public hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14, 1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky. The photo shows a large crowd gathered as attendants adjust a black hood over Bethea's head moments before his execution. Bethea, a 22-year-old Black…