Cracking Collection

Enigma code machine
Four-rotor Enigma encoder used by Germany in World War II to send coded messages

Polar bear (ursus maritimus) in Billefjorden, near Pyramiden, in western Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard

Opening a safe by mind reading (via involuntary muscle movement) Date: 1900

There she sat and would have remained sitting a long time if there had not been a rustling
492397 There she sat and would have remained sitting a long time if there had not been a rustling and cracking in the boughs of the nearest tree

Grassy plants and a log in a field in summer
Close-up of wild, green grassy plants in a field with an old fallen tree log in the middle in Summer, Lower Yukon River; Mountain Village, Western Alaska, Alaska, United States of America

Ice Breaker Ermac, 1899 (oil on canvas)
TW427208 Ice Breaker Ermac, 1899 (oil on canvas) by Tolidze, S. (fl.1899); 80.8 x 118.3 cm; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; eTyne & Wear Archives & Museums; out of copyright

Collapsing Floors (Colour Litho)
2777994 Collapsing Floors (Colour Litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: The collapsing floors)

During a school excursion, five young people from a German village had started skating
2777920 During a school excursion, five young people from a German village had started skating

The bombing on the ice (colour litho)
2783970 The bombing on the ice (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: The ice bombing)

Babies hatching from eggs in eggcups (b / w photo)
3091208 Babies hatching from eggs in eggcups (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Babies hatching from eggs in eggcups. Postcard, early 20th century)

Suede bolete and red cracking bolete
Suede bolete, Xerocomus subtomentosus (Boletus subtomentosus), and red cracking bolete, Xerocomellus chrysenteron (Boletus chrysenteron)

Terrible accident in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris (colour litho)
2779368 Terrible accident in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Terrible accident in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris)

An iced-in British whaleboat is liberated by the suns rays, Baffin Bay, July 1817
STC175884 An iced-in British whaleboat is liberated by the suns rays, Baffin Bay, July 1817, from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, Volume I, plate 21, by Jules Ferrario

Ice tragedy (colour litho)
2783753 Ice tragedy (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ice tragedy)

Easter Card (colour photo)
3096122 Easter Card (colour photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Easter Card. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Returning from a baptism, a Romanian family passing by sled over a frozen river
2778231 Returning from a baptism, a Romanian family passing by sled over a frozen river

The expedition to the South Pole by the well-known explorer Larsen has been dramatically cut short
2778139 The expedition to the South Pole by the well-known explorer Larsen has been dramatically cut short

Armorel of Lyonesse, A Romance of To-Day, by Walter Besant (engraving)
1626721 Armorel of Lyonesse, A Romance of To-Day, by Walter Besant (engraving) by Barnard, Frederick (1846-96) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Armorel of Lyonesse, A Romance of To-Day)

CREIGHTON GLASS WORKS
Cracking off the end of the glass cylinder at the Creighton glass works, Pittsburgh USA Date: circa 1880

Cracked clay on pan floor at Deadvlei
Dead trees stand guard over Deadvlei in Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia; the pan once had water from the Tsauchab river

Patterns in mud cracks in drought area

yellow flowers in the middle of the Australia bush still managed to grow even in these dry conditions. Nature at its finest

The cracking up of the earth has not deterred these yellow wildflowers

A landscape photograph of wome yellow wildflowers pushing up through the cracked earth

There She Sat And Would Have Remained Sitting A Long Time If There Had Not Been A Rustling And Cracking In The Boughs Of The Nearest Tree

adversity, alone, ar, augmented reality, cloud, color image, computer graphic, concept
Frustrated cracking woman in drought

Barrymores 4 in hand
Lord Barrymore drives his four-in-hand at a cracking pace... Date: circa 1790

Beefsteak fungus, Fistulina hepatica, edible, and red cracking bolete, Xerocomus chrysenteron.. Chromolithograph by C

Bairnsfather Ware ashtray - Out since Mons Grimwades
Bairnsfather Ware ashtray. Out since Mons. Grimwades Made by the Girls of Staffordshire. on reverse. Minor cracking. Bairnsfather Ware

Evolution of a chicken within an egg, and a chicken recently emerged from the egg
KW478326 Evolution of a chicken within an egg, and a chicken recently emerged from the egg, from El Mundo Ilustrado, published Barcelona, 1880 (colour litho) by European School

Picture No. 11073576
Musk-Ox spar by cracking heads on the coastal plain Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Two Musk-Ox spar on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic Ocean

Dried mud along White Canyon, Utah

Severe cracking on an apple fruit in dry weather

Golden delicious apples severely affected by apple scab, Venturia inaequalis

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) crop, flowering in field, with cracks in soil due to dry weather, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, August

Drought, cracked soil at edge of arable field, Sweden, May

Raw egg dripping from eggshell, cracked over flour in glass bowl, side view

Raw egg dripping from shell being cracked over glass bowl, egg carton and whisk by sides of bowl, chopped vegetables on wooden board in background

Hand holding nutcracker, gripping a walnut

Halved walnut, close up

Pieces of dry soil resting in palm of hand above soil surface, close up

Using lobster crackers to crack open claw shells of a cooked lobster

Hands cutting crab claw with nutcracker, close-up

Holding coconut in blue and white towel while hitting shell with hammer, close up

Whole hazel nuts and walnuts, cracked hazel nut by nutcracker

Hands cracking egg over glass bowl, side view

Lobster shell broken open

Nobels oil refinery, artwork
Nobels oil refinery. Computer artwork showing the design of the oil refinery used by the Swedish industrialist Ludvig Immanuel Nobel (1831-1888)

Fluid catalytic cracker at an oil refiner C016 / 2765
Oil. Towers of a fluid catalytic cracking plant at an oil refinery. Catalytic cracking is the process by which crude oil is refined into components of different mass, or fractions

Stress, conceptual artwork C013 / 9470
Stress. Conceptual artwork of a depiction of the word stress breaking up into pieces against a red background

Icebreaker ship C013 / 7475
Icebreaker ship. Close-up of the bow of the Pioneer Explorer icebreaker breaking through light pack ice in the South Atlantic Ocean, near Antarctica

Citrus aurantium, bitter orange
A photograph of the detail from one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. This panel is showing some cracking damage which has since been repaired

Making a Cake
Cracking eggs into a cake mix in a baking bowl. Date: 1980

Grate covering glass plate measuring rate of cracking in granite sea wall protecting harbour entrance, sea wall preventing sand encroachment from South Bull sandbank at Sandymount, Great South Wall

View of crack in sea ice, Antarctica

Catalytic cracker at an oil refinery
Oil refinery. This is the catalytic cracking area. Catalytic cracking uses high temperature and a catalyst to break down (crack) heavy oil fractions into lighter, more useful oils

Oil refining process. Schematic diagram of how oil is refined from the crude state to the finished products

Subsidence. A large crack in the outside wall of a house caused by subsidence. Subsidence is the sinking of land. It may be natural or due to the activities of man

Migraine. Conceptual artwork of a statue clutching its forehead, representing the pain of a migraine

Euro crisis, conceptual artwork
Euro crisis, conceptual computer artwork

Drought. Dried and cracked mud during a drought. Droughts may increase in frequency due to global warming

Carbon footprint, conceptual image. Coal footprint on cracked earth representing global warming

East rift zone of Kilauea volcano, in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii, USA

Family and car in the desert, Middle East
A mother and her two children, together with grandparents, perch at the side of their car in the desert, somewhere in the Middle East

Ancient carved stone heads of the gods, head of Zeus, Nemrut Dagi (Nemrut Dag), on the summit of Mount Nemrut, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Eurasia

Ancient carved stone heads of the gods, the god Antiochus, Nemrut Dagi (Nemrut Dag), on the summit of Mount Nemrut, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Eurasia

Ancient carved stone heads of the gods, Nemrut Dagi (Nemrut Dag), on the summit of Mount Nemrut, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Eurasia

Ancient carved stone heads of the gods, head of Heracles, Nemrut Dagi (Nemrut Dag), on the summit of Mount Nemrut, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Eurasia

Sunset on the red rock picturesque formations at Los Gatos on the eastern or Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez)
Michael Nolan / SplashdownDirect

Tension cracks in rock filled with quartz (rr)
Andrew Davies / SpecialistStock

Divers exiting the water through a crack in the reef at the Islands Dive site
Joe Graham / SplashdownDirect

Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) on cracking sea ice. Rijpfjorden, Svalbard
Anja Fleig / SplashdownDirect

Devils Racetrack, Death Valley National Park, California, United States of America, North America

Dead Vlei, Sossuvlei dune field, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa

Cracked mud flats and sand dunes, Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia, Africa

Steaming volcanic mud pools, Rincon de la Vieja National Park at foot of Rincon Volcano, Gaunacaste, Costa Rica

Backpacker walking across dried up lake towards Llaima volcano, Conguillio National Park, Chile, South America

Icebergs, Lake Gray, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile, South America

Fox Sisters, Rapping
THE FOX SISTERS Dr Austin Flint of Rochester seeks to demonstrate that the Fox sisters fake their raps, by showing that cracking the knee produces a similar sound

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"Cracking the Code: From Enigma Machines to Safe Cracking and Beyond" In the world of secrets and mysteries, cracking holds a special allure. Just like the skilled codebreakers who deciphered the Enigma machine during World War II, we find ourselves captivated by the art of unraveling enigmas. Imagine standing before a sturdy safe, its metal exterior hiding treasures or classified documents within. The anticipation builds as you meticulously work through combinations, listening for that satisfying click when you finally crack it open. Meanwhile, in Billefjorden near Pyramiden on western Spitsbergen, an unlikely scene unfolds. A majestic polar bear sits upon icy terrain, surrounded by silence and solitude. But there she sat only briefly before being startled by a rustling and cracking sound from above – nature's way of reminding her that she is not alone. From fairy tales to winter tragedies captured in vivid color lithographs, cracks appear throughout our collective imagination. Arthur Rackham's illustration depicts "The Goose Girl at the Well, " where suspense hangs in the air until a sudden cracking noise breaks the stillness. Nature itself showcases its power with images like "The River That Swallows, " swallowing everything in its path with an ominous crackling sound echoing through canyons. Yet amidst this grandeur lies simplicity too – grassy plants sway gently while logs rest peacefully under summer sun along Alaska's Lower Yukon River. Even man-made structures succumb to forces beyond their control. The Ice Breaker Ermac battles against frozen waters with tremendous force; breaking ice apart with resounding cracks as it paves way for others to follow. But not all cracks bring destruction; some reveal hidden wonders beneath collapsing floors or within eggs hatching delicately into life itself. In these moments of vulnerability and emergence lies hope and new beginnings.