The Giant Man is Andre Rene Russimov, known as Andre the Giant. The French actor and wrestler is 224 cm tall and weighs 240 kg. USA. 1980.

Tourists Lunch, Luxor, Egypt, 1898

The launch of the first artificial satellite. The date of the launch of Sputnik-1 is the beginning of the space age of mankind. October 4, 1957.

Crown of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI, 886-912; rhinestone.

Makeup artist Stuart Freeborn created images of all the characters from the original Star Wars trilogy. To model the Master Yoda doll, Freeborn crossed two faces: taking his own image as the basis, he added Albert Einstein's characteristic wrinkles to it.

A woman taking the autograph of a survivor of the Titanic disaster, April 1912.

Joseph Goebbels stares at the photographer after discovering that he is Jewish, 1933.

A London resident hiding from air strikes in a sarcophagus, 1940.

The first self-service gas station in the United States. With no gas station attendants, gasoline became cheaper by 5 cents a gallon. Los Angeles, 1948.

A reward for information about Pablo Escobar. Κolombia, 1980s.

Luftwaffe pilots (He-111s) at the ritual of accepting new pilots into their ranks. The meaning - to burn your fear. Kharkov, 1942.

Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaves Istanbul, 1922.

Bullwinkle oil platform delivered to installation site in the Gulf of Mexico, 1988.

Al Pacino and Madonna in promotional photos for the movie "Dick Tracy," 1990.

Freddie Mercury, 1987. The photo depicts his favorite cat, Delilah (white with spots). He dedicated a song to it in the last album he released ("Innuendo").

Sculptors Charles Lang and Otto Falkenbach working on a triceratops head for the Fields Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Rommel inspects the barriers on the beach. Pretty soon, it will be the Utah Landing Sector. Normandy, 1944.

A Maori guard and a Japanese prisoner of war in an Allied camp.

New Zealand, 1942.

Although raccoons are immune to most infectious diseases, they can be carriers.

All bear species are really smart.

For instance, they know how to disarm hunting traps by throwing sticks and rocks at them so they don't work.

Ara's are the largest parrots. Among the almost 400 species of this family, they are the largest. Their weight is 1-2 kg. Hyacinth's ara reaches a size of just over one meter. And the wingspan is 1.5 m.