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Europe and Asia
An illustration of the Europe-Asia border marker in the Ural Mountains, from Thomas Knox's 1871 book, Overland through Asia.
Coasting Into Asia
An illustration from the 1899 book by John Fraser, Round the world on a wheel
View on River Sava, looking from Slavonian Brood to the Bosnian Shore.
An illustration from Arthur Evans's 1877 book, Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot During the Insurrection, August and September 1875
CO emissions in 2010
Data retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. The gif depicts trace concentrations of carbon monoxide in the air at the time of the wildfires in Russia. The cloud of CO from the fires started over…
Ufa burn victim
Photo of one of the burn victims following the ufa train disaster. Burn medicine in Soviet Union at the time was discovered to be far behind Western standards, forcing the USSR to request medical aid from US, making it the second disaster in a row in…
Gorbachev in Armenia
Newspaper account of Gorbachev's visit to Armenia in the wake of the 1988 earthquake. The picture depicts his visit to Leninakan (now Gyumri), the largest city involved in the Spitak earthquake disaster.