Images

Patriot soldiers are slaughtered by British and Loyalist dragoons at the Battle of Waxhaws, South Carolina (29 May 1780), wood engraving by John Reuben Chapin, 19th century. New York Public Library.

The cockpit of a Lancaster bomber, the main strike bomber of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War (1939-45).

A Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber about to take off to bomb Duisburg during the battle of the Ruhr (March-July 1943) in the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums, London)

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...