27.6.19

Quite the lively welcome at the Knesset for Elizabeth Warren during her first official visit to Israel in 2014. 

12.6.19

שישה ימים

An IDF soldier takes a cup of water from the Jordan River following the end of the 1967 Six Day War. Notice the faded ink of the tattoo on his left arm, only little more than twenty years since the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Gettyimages.es

11.6.19

Winter Palace Ball, 1903

"the last spectacular ball in the history of the empire ... [but] a new and hostile Russia glared through the large windows of the palace ... while we danced, the workers were striking and the clouds in the Far East were hanging dangerously low." - Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch


Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (Alix of Hesse). Wikicommons.

10.6.19

Station d'Hiver de Biarritz

Vintage French railway poster.


6.6.19

Rostov-on-Don

City Duma Building
Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Rostov City Hall. Wikicommons.
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