A Picture Says 1,000 Words - Page 113

The vortex at Saturn’s north pole.

Hundreds of German Americans give the Nazi salute to young men marching in Nazi uniforms. The event was a German Day celebration sponsored by German American Bund at Camp Sigfried on Long Island.

Soldiers run for cover to evade sniper fire while trying to clear the city of armed militants, one street at a time, on May 25, 2017 in Marawi city, Philippines.

Rock climber Alex Honnold training on Freerider for the first ever rope-free climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He completed the feat on Saturday, June 3rd. The historic event was documented for an upcoming National Geographic feature film and magazine story.

Rock climber Alex Honnold stands atop El Capitan after nearly four hours of climbing alone, without ropes or any other equipment or safety gear.

Brazilian army military police patrol along an alley in Rocinha on September 25, 2017.

A man walks down a street between the wreckage of houses destroyed by the fire in Santa Rosa, California, on October 9, 2017.

Smoke is seen on Burma's side of border as an exhausted Rohingya refugee woman is carried to the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Burma border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on September 11, 2017.

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A coal miner receives his alcohol ration. Essen, Germany, 1947.

B-25s are pictured flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spews from the top of the volcano. The eruption killed 57 as it destroyed the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 while Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies.

An immigrant family on Ellis Island in 1925 looking toward Manhattan and what awaits them.

Christmas packages destined for soldiers who have been killed or reported missing in action await "return to sender" stamps. New York City, 1944.

A Chinese soldier is pictured arguing with a Soviet Union soldier during the Sino-Soviet border conflicts. 2nd March, 1969.

At 4:31 AM, an unauthorized photo taken of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that Germany had began their invasion of the Soviet Union. It was taken by Komsomolskaya Pravda, editor in chief. He was ordered to destroy it, but instead saved it. June 22, 1941.

"Eyes of Hate", a photograph of Goebbels after he finds out his photographer was Jewish, Geneva , September 1933.

Navy Day celebrations in the Hudson River under the New York City skyline, 27 October 1945

U.S. Marines assault uphill to dislodge NVA forces during Operation Hastings (Vietnam War - 1966)

Mid-construction of Eiffel Tower, August 21, 1888.

US Marines and tanks street fighting in Seoul, South Korea - 1950

Wounded Turkish soldiers and refugees are tended on a barge by Russians, after the fall of Trabzona to the Russian Army, 18th April 1916.

West German school children pause to talk with two East German border guards beside an opening in the Berlin Wall during the collapse of communism in East Germany in November 1989.

French soldiers stand in a relaxed group wearing medals. The medals appear to be the Military Medal, established on 25th March, 1916, for acts of bravery. They have probably been awarded for their part in the Battle of the Somme. The French helmets, with their very distinct crests, can be seen clearly.

German machine-gun nest and dead gunner at Villers Devy Dun Sassey, France, on November 4, 1918—one week before the end of the war.

The remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., destroyed by a terrorist truck bomb on April 19, 1995.

The European Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, camera on the James Webb Space Telescope captured this view of M74, also known as the Phantom Galaxy.

Between two farm fields in Sharpsburg, Md., there was a sunken road, which Confederates used as a rifle pit until they were overrun by federal troops. The road has since been known as "Bloody Lane."

Dead Confederate soldiers, with the Dunker Church in the background, after the Battle of Antietam, September 19, 1862, photograph by Alexander Gardner.

"Confederate soldier who after being wounded had evidently dragged himself to a little ravine on the hillside where he died". Photograph by Alexander Gardner.

Federal burial party, by Alexander Gardner

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of Creation famous with its first image in 1995, but revisited the scene in 2014 to reveal a sharper, wider view in visible light, shown above at left. A new, near-infrared-light view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, at right, helps us peer through more of the dust in this star-forming region. The thick, dusty brown pillars are no longer as opaque and many more red stars that are still forming come into view.

A firefighter looks towards the heavily damaged Belgrade's tallest building, NATO bombing, April 1999.

Combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry fly over an RTO and his commander, during Operation Pershing, Vietnam, 1967-68.

Capt. Ike Fenton of the United States Marines upon hearing reports that his unit was almost out of ammunition during a battle in 1950.

A shell exploding near a United States Marine position in April 1952.

A wounded American Marine was carried on stretcher improvised from a machine gun, Korea 1950.

Marines retreated from the Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 1950.