Emperor Taizong, the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, who ruled from 626 to 649. Portrait from a Ming dynasty era hanging scroll.

Pablo Picasso's first (1896) and last (1972) self-portraits.

🇬🇧 Cheapside, London, 1890s (photochrome)

Animatronic squirrel created for Tim Burton's painting "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Animatronics is a mechanism that mimics the movements of a living being in films. The word appeared in 1961 and is a registered trademark of "Walt Disney Imagineering" for talking and moving robots used in Disneyland shows and attractions.

🇫🇷 Celebrations of the liberation of Paris from German occupation, WWII, August 1944

First developed in 1991, a webcam was pointed at the Trojan Room coffee pot in the Cambridge University Computer Science Department (initially operating over a local network instead of the web). The camera was finally switched off on August 22, 2001.

392 year old Shark in the Arctic Ocean, exploring the ocean since 1627

Confederate volunteers, 1861

Arizona Falls Grand Falls, USA. Its waters are distinguished by a unique chocolate shade.

Pileh Lagoon is known as "Thailand's Deepest Lagoon.