Sōhei were Buddhist warrior monks of both classical and feudal Japan. The warriors protected land and intimidated rival schools of Buddhism, becoming a significant factor in the spread of Buddhism and the development of different schools during the Kamakura period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sōhei

Schoolgirls sit in the girls' section of a school in Bamozai, Paktya Province, Afghanistan. The school has no building; classes are held outdoors in the shade of an orchard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education

Wildlife photographer in a ghillie suit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_photography

Fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with butter or margarine and covered with hundreds and thousands (colorful round sprinkles), often served at children's parties in Australia and New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_bread

Litham is a mouth-veil which the Tuareg and other West and North African nomads, particularly men, have traditionally used to cover the lower part of their face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litham

Wrecked and abandoned vehicles along Highway 80 in April 1991

The Highway of Death is a six-lane highway connecting Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. During the American-led coalition offensive in the Persian Gulf War, American, Canadian, British, and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death

Vandalism on a street sign

Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism

Svan with khanjali (dagger) and long smoking pipe, Mestia (~1888–1900)

The Svans are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgians indigenous to Svaneti, a region in northwest Georgia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svans

Air Koryo is North Korea's flag carrier and only commercial airline. Its small fleet consists of Ilyushin and Tupolev aircraft from the Soviet Union and Russia, and Antonovs from the Soviet Union and Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Koryo

1932 Socialist Realism painting, "In a pig-breeding sovkhoz" (Petr Stroev)

A sovkhoz was a form of state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovkhoz

A tetramorph cherub, in Eastern Orthodox iconography

A cherub is one type of supernatural being in the Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden of Eden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherub

«Ukrainian woman», Mykhailo Boychuk, 1910s

Boychukism is a cultural and artistic phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian art of 1910–1930s, distinguished by its artistic monumental-synthetic style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boychukism

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The Wiki Wiki Shuttle is a free shuttle bus service at Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii.

In the Hawaiian language, the word "wiki" means quick. In 1994, the shuttle's name inspired American computer programmer Ward Cunningham to build the first ever user-editable website, WikiWikiWeb. The word wiki for a user-editable website thus derives from the shuttle's name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wiki_Shuttle

Welcome sign to Okinawa Uno

Okinawa Uno is a small city and municipality of Bolivia. The town was established by Okinawan immigrants after the end of the Second World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Uno

Example of a penguin diagram superimposed on an image of a Gentoo penguin

In quantum field theory, penguin diagrams are a class of Feynman diagrams which are important for understanding CP violating processes in the Standard Model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_diagram

The city in 1989

Kowloon Walled City was an extremely densely populated and largely lawless enclave of China within the boundaries of former British Hong Kong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

Brazilian Expeditionary Force shoulder sleeve insignia with a smoking snake

Before the FEB entered combat in World War II, the expression "a cobra vai fumar" ("the snake will smoke") was often used in Brazil in a context similar to "when pigs fly". After the war the meaning was reversed, signifying that something will definitively happen in a furious and worse way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Expeditionary_Force

Kanellos (left) and another dog at a 2012 protest

A riot dog is a stray dog that accompanies street protesters. The term originated during the 2008 Greek riots when a number of stray dogs remained among the protesters even when violent rioting broke out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_dog

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Non-place is a neologism coined by the French anthropologist Marc Augé to refer to anthropological spaces of transience where human beings remain anonymous, and that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places" in their anthropological definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz rocket for ISS Expedition 31

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_space