Frederick The Great

Downed Dornier Do.17Z from the 76th Luftwaffe bomber squadron

Ginza,Tokyo,1952 by m20wc51 Via Flickr: Photographer: Captain John Randolph Coupland III, US Army, 1952

天上寺 by Junko S. Photography Via Flickr: Fujifilm X-T10 + XF56mmF1.2 R Junko S. Photography | Facebook

Maiko Kiyono exiting a teahouse in Gion, Kyoto.  August 1, 2013, Kyoto, Japan. Text and photography bt Sam Ryan on Flickr

Cone-shaped helmet (tsuinari kabuto), Late Momoyama to early Edo period, 17th century. Iron, lacing, lacquer, shakudō, bronze, gold, fur; 27 ½. The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Dallas. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Chinese team of anti-aircraft spotlights

Akihabara 秋葉原, Tokyo, Japan - 1951

Shinbashi teishaba no zu 新橋停車場之図 (Shinbashi railway station illustration) - Fuuzokugahou 風俗画報 (Customs Pictorial) magazine - Japan - circa 1909

栗島すみ子

Emperor Taishō of Japan in the robes of the Order of the Garter, as a consequence of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.

(Steve McCurry)