Anniversary: The Operation Tidal Wave Raid on Ploiești — August 1, 1943
At first light on 1 August 1943, 177 B-24 bombers took off from Benghazi, Libya, and flew across the Mediterranean, […]
Ploiești and Operation Tidal Wave
The Columbia Aquila refinery in flames as a second wave of B-24s passes overhead, 1 August 1943. Photo: U.S. Air
The Veretski Pass and the Árpád Line
A pillbox of the Árpád Line in the Latorytsia valley, on the eastern approach to the Veretski Pass. Photo: VargaA,
Bilibók-tető and the Árpád Line at Ghimeș
Anti-tank dragon’s teeth and the entrance to a bunker beneath railway Canton 30, Ghimeș. Photo: Accipiter Gentilis Q., Wikimedia Commons,
Ayr Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Saint Margaret in Ayr is the seat of the Bishop of Galloway and principal church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galloway, designated cathedral in 2007.
Sampson House
A commercial office building on Hopton Street, Southwark, that once stood adjacent to the present-day Tate Modern art gallery.
Keeling House
Denys Lasdun’s pioneering 1957 residential cluster in Bethnal Green, London, arranges four maisonette blocks around a central service tower—a radical modernist solution to post-war housing.
Wyndham Court
A 1960s social housing block in central Southampton designed by Lyons Israel Ellis, housing 184 flats alongside shops and restaurants near the railway station.
Maisons Jaoul
A pair of modernist houses in suburban Paris designed by Le Corbusier (1954–56), celebrated for their raw concrete and sculptural form.
Seimas Palace
The seat of Lithuania’s parliament, Seimas Palace is a working center of democratic governance in the heart of Vilnius.