This medical image shows a victim at the Hiroshima First Army Hospital around August 1945, captured by Gonichi Kimura. The atomic bomb's intense thermal radiation permanently seared the dark patterns of her kimono directly into her skin, leaving an indelible record of the nuclear blast.

On December 20th, 1924, Adolf Hitler was released from prison. The New York Times ran with the headline, "Hitler Tamed By Prison," and stated he would retire to his private life and return to his native Austria.

Alexei Makuha, a non-commissioned officer in the 148 th Infantry Regiment Caspian. He was captured and tortured by the Austrians. After Makuha refused to answer the questions of the Austrian officers, they mutilated his tongue. Alexei Makuha was awarded 4 Crosses of St. George

Euzebe Virdine is photographed here moments before his execution on August 8, 1924. He had been a serial killer in Louisiana and his last request was to have his photo taken on the gallows.

In 1946. leading Nazi Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and head of the Luftwaffe, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled hanging for war crimes in Nuremberg using a cyanide capsule.

Alessandro Moreschi was the last castrato, the final survivor of a brutal 500 year tradition that castrated up to 4,000 boys a year at its peak. He's the only one whose voice was ever recorded. During the 18th century, up to 4,000 boys a year were castrated in Italy just to keep their voices from breaking, purely for church and opera singing. It was technically punishable by excommunication or even death, but the church that banned it also quietly kept employing the results for centuries. Alessandro Moreschi, born 1858, ended up being the last one, and the only castrato ever captured on record, a handful of scratchy early 1900s recordings. Problem is, by then his voice was already past its best and the equipment couldn't do it justice, so nobody actually knows what a castrato sounded like in peak condition. It's such a real gap that when they made the 1994 film Farinelli, they couldn't cast anyone, they had to digitally blend a soprano and a countertenor's voices together to fake it.