EditorialLight-up Star Wars C-3PO head - set to sell for up to ?1 million - and Leonardo DiCaprio?s Titanic costume among treasure trove of film and TV memorabilia up for auction
EditorialGail Ingram on the roof of her rental building in Manhattan, which was severely damaged last year in a fire caused by an exploding e-bike battery on the ground floor, Jan. 31, 2023. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialResidents sort through donated clothing at an aid distribution point in Lyman, Ukraine on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)
EditorialUkrainian soldiers with a heavy artillery brigade move their 2S7 Pion cannon toward open ground to fire toward Russian fortifications inside the city of Kreminna, Ukraine on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)
EditorialThomas Schmieder heads off for a run for the German trucking company Spedition Schanz. Exploding diesel prices are costing the firm hundreds of thousands of euros. (Felix Schmitt/The New York Times)
EditorialSquirting cucumber or exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium (Momordica elaterium). Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett d...
EditorialAlexander Farnses, Duke of Parma and Placenza. Alexandre Farnese, Duc de Parme. In lace ruff collar and armour breastplate, with chain of the order of the Golden Fleece. Frame decorated with snakes, sword and baton. Vignette of a Spanish Armada boat ex...
EditorialExplosive Projectile for Whale Killing, Exploding bullet, incomplete. It has a cylindrical housing made of brass, with a movable chimney screwed into the more or less pointed top. A smashing cap must be placed on the chimney, which hits a crossbar insi...
EditorialDaniel Ruggles (1810-1897). Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In 1880 he obtained a federal patent to produce rain by explosions in the clouds. The experiment consisted in ascending dynamite, through a kite...
EditorialDutch make-up artist Nikkie de Jager presents during the grand final dress rehearsal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, May 21, 2021. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)