The Ukrainian Institute of America, Manhattan, N.Y., June 15, 2024

People attend a funeral ceremony for Iryna Tsybukh, in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2, 2024. She was a volunteer medic, age 25, who was killed by Russian troops in the Kharkiv region.

C. S. Lewis

Former president George H. W. Bush waves to the crowd at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., September 2, 2008.

Residents in Gloucester, Mass., watch fireworks on July 4, 2021.

A city's welcome

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, c. 1863

A member of the Baltimore police department stands guard at a crime scene on Mother’s Day in the downtown area of Baltimore, Md., May 12, 2019.

Mourners at the funeral of Iryna Tsybukh, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2, 2024. She was a volunteer medic, age 25, who was killed by Russian troops in the Kharkiv region.

Journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro listens during a news conference in Managua, Nicaragua, December 13, 2019.

An American flag hangs behind the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus in Everett, Wash., January 24, 2019.

The tomb of British novelist Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the name ‘George Eliot,’ is seen in Highgate Cemetery, London, on February 5, 2019.

Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin perform at Earl's Court in London, May 1975.

A firefighter washes his face as he works at the compound of a printworks hit by Russian missile strikes in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 23, 2024.

College football in the 1930s

Olympic figure-skating gold medalist Oksana Baiul, from Ukraine, addresses a pro-Ukraine rally in Las Vegas, Nev., March 5, 2022.

Leon Theremin performs on his invention, the theremin, in New York City in the 1920s or '30s.

Left: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) in November 2023. Right: Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán in February 2024.

Gustav Mahler

Lord Mayor of London David Wootton (left) and Britain's Prince Charles look at a portrait of Charles Dickens during a visit to the Dickens Museum in London in 2012.

Galina Shevtsova in front of her apartment building, Mariupol, Russian-occupied Ukraine, November 16, 2022. She lives in the basement with her husband, Pavel. Their apartment higher in the building was destroyed by Russian forces the previous March.

A residence in the village of Dorridge, West Midlands, England, May 2024