People take selfies as a English singer-songwriter Harry Styles wax figure is unveiled on Coogee Beach on July 18, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)
Avigail Collins and Daisy Lowe attend Liudmila X Avigail Collins Launch Party on July 13, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Kintzing.com for Liudmila x Avigail Collins/SilverHub/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
Abortion rights activists demonstrate in front of the National Assembly building in Quito, on February 17, 2022. Currently, abortion is legal in Ecuador if the mother's life is in danger or in cases involving the rape of a woman with a mental disability. (Photo by Rodrigo Buendia/AFP Photo)
Bronn, a Dutch shepherd, launches 22 feet, 6 inches, during the Dock Dogs Outdoor Big Air for the GoPro Mountain Games, Thursday, June 9, 2022, at Lionshead Village in Vail, Colo. The big air is always a crowd favorite as dogs can fly nearly 30 feet in distance through the air. (Photo by Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily via AP Photo)
A demonstrator gestures as she talks with a Lebanese army member during a protest as Lebanon marks the two-year anniversary of the August 2020 Beirut port explosion, in Beirut, Lebanon on August 4, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)
“The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc officially claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany. However, in practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period”. – Wikipedia
Photo: West Berlin policemen and East German Volkspolizei face each other across the border in Berlin, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A woman poses next to two mailboxes along a street in Taipei on August 11, 2015 that were reportedly bent by strong winds brought by Typhoon Soudelor over the weekend. The two iron mailboxes have become an unlikely attraction, drawing thousands of snap-happy visitors and have even become a backdrop to a wedding photo shoot. The typhoon, which hit in the early hours of August 8 and was billed as the most powerful typhoon this year, uprooted trees, brought down electricity poles, knocking out power to a record 4.3 million households, while leaving eight dead and four missing. (Photo by Benjamin Yeh/AFP Photo)
A pro-democracy demonstrator fights with a Soviet soldier on top of a tank parked in front of the Russian Federation building on August 19, 1991, after a coup toppled Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The same day, thousands in Moscow, Leningrad, and other cities answered Russian Republic President Boris Yeltsin's call to raise barricades against tanks and troops. (Dima Tanin/AFP/Getty Images)