American aviator Charles Lindbergh with his plane "The Spirit of St. Louis", with which he performed the first solo transatlantic flight on 20 May 1927.

12th century illustration of the Sack of Thessalonica in 904 AD by an Arab fleet under Leo of Tripoli, a Greek renegade who became a pirate for the Abbasid caliphate, sacking multiple cities for plunder and slaves.

On a skyscraper under construction in New York, c. 1920

🇬🇧 A soldier and his lady get married in the bombed ruins of a church hit by a German air raid during the Blitz, UK, 1940

An Arab man, Egypt, 1890s

Women eating dinner at a workhouse in St. Pancras, London, 1900

Austrian civilians ordered to exhume mass graves at Ebensee concentration camp following its liberation by the US 80th Infantry Division, May 1945

🇬🇧 A horse and cart traveling down Ludgate Hill in London in 1897.

A monk stands in the garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem, 1920s

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The streets of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1930s

A Siamese embassy to France, c. 1850s-1860s

🇮🇪 An Irish Free State Army soldier in firing position inside a badly damaged house during the Irish Civil War, c. 1922-1923 (colourised)

The streets of a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1903

A lady in evening dress, 1926

Nazis burn books in Berlin, May 1933

🇫🇷 The Malavaux near Vichy, France, c. 1890s, photochrome

🇮🇹 Queen Margherita of Italy, wife of King Umberto I, c. 1870s

Illustration from French newspaper Le Petit Parisien of an Arab man examining African slaves at market, 1907.
Arab slavers brought 7-10 million captives from Africa to the Middle East as slaves during the Trans-Saharan slave trade until the trade was mostly abolished in the 20th century. However the term “abd” (meaning “slave”) is still used as a slur for black people by many Arabs to this day.

James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, holds an early ball and basket used for the game at an unspecified date sometime prior to 1939.

🇺🇸 A Memorial Day parade, New York, c. 1940 or 1941