EditorialBeka Simila, left, a student pilot, helps steady a balloon as its inflated in Enumclaw, Wash. on July 23, 2021. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialAssyrian soldiers assault a fortified city by swimming across a river on inflated animal skins. Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.
EditorialAn activist prepares a mock grave at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on June 11, 2020, to symbolize victims of the coronavirus, and protest the government response to the pandemic. (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times)
EditorialDaymond John, center, a star of the reality show “Shark Tank” and a founder of the street wear company Fubu, at a gala in Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on Aug. 27, 2018. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)
EditorialStrombus canarium, Print, Laevistrombus canarium commonly known as the dog conch or by its better-known synonym, Strombus canarium) is a species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae (true conches). Known from illustr...
EditorialThe Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours.
EditorialMussock raft (kutnau). A European man is seated on a raft made from inflated bullock skins, on the Beas River at Dera Gopipur. This is presumably Harry Arthur Vale Thompson, 1st Gurkha Rifles. . Source: OIOC Photo 651(32),.
EditorialMussock raft (kutnau). A European man is seated on a raft made from inflated bullock skins, on the Beas River at Dera Gopipur. This is presumably Harry Arthur Vale Thompson, 1st Gurkha Rifles. . Source: OIOC Photo 651(32),.
EditorialThe Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours.
EditorialMen of the Kingdom of Gingiro crossing the Gibe River (Zebee River) in Ethiopia using an inflated cowskin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence,...
EditorialAssyrian soldiers assault a fortified city by swimming across a river on inflated animal skins. Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.