Images

A photograph of the damage inflicted on the Essen Krupps AG locomotive factory by the Royal Air Force during the battle of the Ruhr (March-July 1943) during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums, London)

A 1943 photograph of an 88mm anti-aircraft gun used by Germany during the Second World War (1939-45). These guns were usually placed in batteries of six or eight guns.(German Federal Archives)

North American grizzly bear and her cub, photo taken by Tim Rains. Denali National Park and Reserve.

Bear Dance, hand-colored lithograph by George Catlin, 1844. Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, USA.

A Short Land Pattern Musket, nicknamed 'Brown Bess', the standard weapon of an infantrymen in the British army during the 18th and early 19th centuries, c. 1773. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis.

Anthropologist and historian George Bird Grinnell (l. 1849-1938), photograph published in the Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford, 1905.

Pahuk (also known as Pahaku and Pahuk Hill) a site sacred to the Pawnee in modern-day Nebraska. The site features prominently in the Pawnee tale The Boy Who Was Sacrificed and in the story of Old-Lady-Grieves-the-Enemy who defended the site...

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin. The church was damaged in the bombing of Berlin during the Second World War (1939-45) and left as a memorial.

A 1942 photograph of one of the anti-aircraft gun installations which protected Berlin during the Second World War. (German Federal Archives)

A June 1945 photograph showing the bomb-damaged Reichstag in Berlin. (Imperial War Museums, London)