A prostitute models for a picture to be used on postcards in the French Quarter of New Orleans, US in 1894. The booming industry in the US was suddenly put to a halt in the early half of the 20th century, when prostitution in the US was eventually outlawed in 49/50 states, with only Nevada keeping it legal.

This picture is a modern picture using old techniques. Showing the ugly side of being in such a profession.

Mounted armed guards of Emir of Katsina wearing traditional attire during the festival of Sallah in Katsina, Nigeria in 1970. The armed guards have had long standing purposes in the area, and would guard royalty or important functions of the Katsina state and surrounding areas. This area was founded in around 1100 AD, and has had functioning versions of these guards throughout most if its history.

Aid workers help a women who can barely stand in Ethiopia in 1985. At this point, up to 1 million Ethiopians had died from starvation during a severe drought that began 2 years earlier. Normal weather conditions caused the worst drought in Ethiopia in a century. However, the government handling of the situation proved to cause the famine to be far worse and strike harder. To combat insurgency efforts against the ruling party in affected parts of Somalia, the government withheld necessary supplies and support for crops and animals, which reduced food for the people. The death toll rapidly climbed because of this and other measures by the government, causing far more deaths.

Workers building the locks and tops of the wall of the Panama Canal in 1913. This was near the finishing stages of the Canal, as it would open the following year. Originally a French production which began in 1881, the US took over in 1904 after the French companies operating the Canal went bankrupt. Before they sold the rights to the US, the French spent $275 million US (over $5 Billion today) and only received $40 million to the rights. They also lost 22,000 workers dead from disease and accidents, as well as losing over 800,000 investors their funds in the project. The US finished it in the next 10 years with key modifications, and lost around 5,200 people to disease and accidents. The new country of Panama was created during this time, seceding from Colombia. In fact, the US supported and ensure Panamanian independence away from Colombia by blocking Colombian troops from engaging rebels so the US could barter a more favorable deal with the fledgling nation over building and operating the Canal in 1903.

A Khmer Rouge soldier waves his pistol and orders store owners to abandon their shops in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 1975. The capital fell to the communist forces, and immediately all property and ownership ceased for its citizens. This was as the Khmer Rouge won the 8 year long Cambodia Civil War, but that did not stop the fighting or the killing. Under their leader Pol Pot, The Khmer Rouge were ruthless, and began a campaign of genocide against the people. While in full control of the country, the Khmer Rouge killed up to 3 million people in just 4 years. Over 23,000 mass graves have been discovered. Men, women, children, the Khmer Rouge killed them all. It got so bad that even Vietnam invaded Cambodia, despite both being communist, and eventually the Khmer Rouge lost control of the country. However they would continue to fight a guerilla war even holding key areas of the country until finally being defeated 20 years later in 1999.

Korean prisoners lay at the edge of a mass grave before being executed in South Korea in 1950.

A small child maybe no older than 5 works in an industrial textile factory in New York City, US in 1902. During the industrial revolution, plant owners recruited cheap labor from poor families, often employing children of all ages. The work was long and for small wages, and injuries at the factories had no insurance.

Australian troops wait to be airlifted back to Nui Dat after Operation Ulmarra in Vietnam in 1967. Australia had troops in Vietnam as early as 1956 supporting the French and eventually the US and finally had their last troops leave in 1972. The Australians would have 521 soldiers killed and over 3100 wounded during their time in Vietnam.

Models pose as part of Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties collection in Atlantic City, US in 1917.

This picture shows bloody and beaten protesters being forcibly moved by riot police during the Hong Kong Riots in 1967. The riots were against the British Colonial rule, and were pro-communist, hoping to integrate with the rest of China. The police force, which were made up mostly of local Chinese, were sent in to disband the protestors when instead it turned violent. In the hard crackdown that followed, 52 people were killed, with another 800 wounded. The police also arrested some 2000 people including all suspected leaders of the protests. To combat this, small terrorist actions such as bombing occurred against the police and British Colonial rule. Eventually, all order was restored and Britain retained full control of Hong Kong.

People get ready to head inside the Coliseum in Chicago, US for the Republican National Convention in 1912. The thing you may notice from this picture is there is virtually no women in it. Women were not allowed to vote in the US for another 7 years.

A young woman working as a fisherman in Whitby, England in 1891.

A Nazi soldier applies a field dressing to a wounded Russian woman during Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion of Russia) in 1941.

British and German soldiers relax during the a truce in 1917. The most prime example was during that first winter of WWI, when the 2 sides put aside their weapons and came together to celebrate Christmas at certain areas of the front. Known as the Christmas Truce, they exchanged gifts, buried the dead in no mans land, and even played a football match. Some of this continued at numerous points throughout the horrific war, where at certain sections, soldiers would ignore their uniforms and parlay for small exchanges.

Pro-separation civilians gather to support the Quebec Referendum heading to a public vote in Quebec, Canada in 1980. They all hold up signs saying "yes" in French, and despite the growing support, the Quebec Referendum would not pass with nearly 60% voted no. Another vote would also not pass in 1995. The people of Quebec, who speak French primarily, have had desires for years to be their own country, but never had enough public support and votes to push such a measure forward.

An Eskimo medicine man from the Yup'ik tribe preparing to perform a ritual in Alaska territory, US in 1897.

This is a picture of Bosniaks (Muslim Bosnians) at the Omarska concentration camp run by the Serbians during the Bosnian War in Bosnia in 1992. It was basically a concentration camp being disguised as a prisoner camp. The Bosnian War had ugly and brutal acts against ethnic groups. Official death toll from such acts was only 10,000 or so, but many believe the number killed was higher.