ZUM4852357: Jun 06, 1953 - Two-Ton Dicksie the Inquisitive Elephant. Two-ton Dicksie, a 12-year-old African elephant at the London zoo, is just as inquisitive as other little girls. On day she watched with interest the peculiar anti's of her that, when he shut the gate, he twiddle something on the other side. So one night Dicksie decided to do the same. There Was a click, and there in her trunk was a padlock. Dioksie decided to push the gate. It opened, and she strolled out along the public paths munching a hedgerow ot two. She them decided to pay a visit to her friend the gorilla, when along came someone she Recognised -Dicksie's own keeper, who gently taking her tusk led her back to her enclosure / Bridgeman Images
ETE4851975: Second World War (1939-1945): a DCA post that guards the 40-ton bridge built on the Durance by the 10th Battalion of the US Genie which allowed the 15th and 30th US regiments and the 1st French blindee division to cross the river. Photograph taken at Mirabeau (Vaucluse), about August 24, 1944. / Bridgeman Images