Nonetheless, the atomic bombings shook the Emperor also, and is what he cited in his reasons to surrender.

To be honest I could not find a good article on this question, and instead read this well-sourced discussion on /r/askhistorians.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/jcggjg/i_heard_that_the_soviet_invasion_of_manchuria_was/g92ir0y/

The Two Ways of Life (Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1857).
This photograph is made up of around thirty negatives and took about six weeks to create. It shows the life of sin (left) or virtue. Rejlander is considered the father of art photography but died penniless.

This crime was made easy by the fact that many of the items had not been properly catalogued despite being at the museum for over two hundred years.

It is not surprising that such a thing should happen in an institution where jobs are often founded on personal connection rather than competence.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/25/artefacts-stolen-from-british-museum-may-be-untraceable-due-to-poor-records

"University of Oxford researchers have contributed to the first successful extraction of ancient DNA from a 2,900 year-old clay brick. The analysis, published today, provides a fascinating insight into the diversity of plant species cultivated at that time and place, and could open the way to similar studies on clay material from different sites and time periods.

Currently housed at the National Museum of Denmark, the clay brick originates from the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, in the ancient city of Kalhu."

https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/researchers-extract-ancient-dna-from-a-2900-year-old-clay-brick-revealing-a-time-capsule-of

Bat-themed outfit for a fancy dress ball. Occasions like this enabled middle and upper class women of the era to dress in ways that were far more creative and less restrictive than normal.
(Moret, La mode illustrée, 1887

11 September 1973: US-backed forces in Chile launch an illegal coup against the government of Salvador Allende. Allende dies and General Pinochet becomes President, a role he will hold until 1990.

The Chilean economy was suffering from inflation as a result of government policy. Various right-wing groups, deeply distrustful of Allende, were bolstered by the CIA and several American and European groups. Nonetheless, Allende's coalition was able to increase their vote share in elections. He became wary that figures in the military were plotting against him, but was unable to outmanoeuvre them. When the coup was launched, he could do little to defend against it.

Although some claimed the coup was to prevent a dictatorship or democratic backsliding, the government of Pinochet (second from right) became a dictatorship itself and committed widespread and depraved crimes against humanity.
Likewise, despite the coup sometimes being justified by Allende's struggling economic situation, Pinochet's government itself showed devastating economic incompetence, with corruption becoming institutionalised and the economy floundering despite dramatic liberalisation. It was only after Pinochet was finally deposed via referendum that Chile's economy began to recover.

At nightfall ends Rosh Hashanah; the Jewish New Year. Traditions include the blowing of the Shofar (a ram horn), to scare Satan.
Pictured: Russian-Jewish soldiers in WWI praying and blowing the Shofar

The event is thought to have originated from the start of the economic year in the Middle East.

Pictured: A Rosh Hashanah greetings card from Theresienstadt ghetto, Nazi-occupied Czechia, 1943.

If You Don't Read Books, You'll Soon Forget How to Read and Write (Alexander Pavlovich Mogilevsky, USSR, 1925).
The woman is reading the book Ten Days That Shook the World (John Reed, 1919), an account of the Russian revolution by an American journalist.

Campaigners outside a polling station for the German federal elections of July 31 1932 (Georg Pahl, Berlin, 1932, colourised by Julius Backman Jääskeläinen).

From left to right the campaigners are:
NSDAP (Nazi)
A second NSDAP poster
Zentrumspartei (Centre Party)
SPD/Einheitsfront (Socialist/Iron Front)
KPD (Communist)
DNVP (German National People's Party)
DVP (German People's Party)

Dog Child, a North West Mounted Police scout, and his wife, The Only Handsome Woman, members of the Blackfoot Nation (Trueman & Caple, Gleichen, (Alberta, Canada), 1890s).

The man appears to be carrying a distinctive Japanese samurai sword. How a relatively isolated Native American came upon this sword must be an interesting story, but it is one that is unknown.

Source

Members of the Eccentric Club of London, at their annual 'Friday the Thirteenth' lunch, surrounded by omens of bad luck (E. Dean, November 13th, 1936)