A small series by illustration Alex Solis remembering those things that used to rule the world.

Cosplayers (left to right) Oli Hazeldine (dressed as Princess Adora from the animated series She-Ra); Val Imms (Catra from She-Ra), and Lou Frewin (Raven from the animated series Teen Titans) travelling on a Jubilee Line train heading for MCM Comic Con at the ExCel London in east London on Sunday, May 29, 2022. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire)

North Korean children wave to people on a Chinese tourist boat on the banks of Yalu River near the Chongsong county of North Korea, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 8, 2011. (Photo by Jacky Chen/Reuters)

A gold mine worker displays gold in a local mine in Al-Ibedia locality at River Nile State, July 30, 2013. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)

The Brooklyn Bridge is seen after a crane pulled by a tug boat on the East River slammed into scaffolding beneath the Bridge on March 13, 2012 in New York, NY. According to reports, no damage was done to the structure of the bridge. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Swimmers prepare to take part in the annual Christmas Day Peter Pan Cup handicap race in the Serpentine River, in Hyde Park, London, December 25, 2015. (Photo by Andrew Winning/Reuters)

Internally displaced people who fled flooding of the overflowed Shabelle river rest after receiving relief assistance near Baledweyne town in central Somalia, June 22, 2016. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)