Polish movie posters rarely offer "literal translations of the plot" — but rather experiment with social ideas and critiques. Ridley Scott's Alien, 1979.Poland has a long history of poster making. As early as the 1890s, Polish artists would create colorful, vibrant posters to promote artistic events and performances in the country.Reddit Barbarella, 1968.It wasn't until the Cold War that Polish posters attracted the height of their international attention. During this time, critics paid especially close attention to the movie posters that were created in the country.

The internet is crawling with funny animal photos, but these finalists in the 2018 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are some of Mother Nature's best.© Maureen Toft/The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2018 With everything from crippling wildfires to mass shootings and refugee crises, 2018 has been a rough year. Mother Nature, however, had our backs and supplied us with some funny animal pictures that prove there is still something to laugh about in these hard times.

From Tank Man to the Burning Monk, see the famous photos that captured the attention of the world and changed history in ways we can still feel today. Family members pass Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at an Albania camp, March 1999. Crowds gather at the Berlin Wall, November 1989. Family members embrace in the wake of a devastating Alabama tornado, March 2012.

In 1944, Finnish soldier Aimo Koivunen got separated from his unit and survived for weeks inside the Arctic Circle without food or shelter — fueled by a dose of meth large enough for 30 men.Public DomainAimo Koivunen pictured after World War II. Over the course of World War II, Finland staved off a Soviet invasion, allied with Germany to invade the Soviet Union, and then fought with the Allies against Germany.

This first-hand account of a mother and child in peril denied an abortion is a harrowing reminder of how prohibition often works only against itself.PixabayAnencephaly affects 1,206 pregnancies a year — and has a zero-percent survival rate for the child. A woman’s right to choose has become increasingly limited in the United States, especially with the recent illegalization of abortion in Alabama. In the midst of this environment, a U.S. doctor who chose to remain anonymous recently published an essay that explored how unsuccessful childbirth can be debilitating to a mother.