EditorialSmoke from wood being burned to make coals near the village of Mpeka, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 27, 2021. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
EditorialSmoke from wood being burned to make coals near the village of Mpeka, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 27, 2021. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
EditorialWhole alligators are seasoned with Creole seasoning and garlic powder before being cooked over hot coals at a tailgate during the annual football game between the Louisiana State University Tigers and the University of Florida Gators in Baton Rouge, La., Oct. 16, 2021. (Edmund D. Fountain/The New York Times)
EditorialThe exterior, coals etc. Dickinson's comprehensive pictures of the Great Ex. 1854. On display is a tall column; slates and geological specimens. There is a statue in the background of Richard the Lionheart. Image taken from Dickinson's comprehensive p...
EditorialEgyptian bath with naked male customer being massaged by one attendant in loincloth, while another pours water over his back and a third brings hot coals to heat oils. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergalle...
EditorialFigures Playing Cards Card-playing company, In a landscape there are two card-playing men on either side of a table. On the table are stacks of playing cards, a loaf, a bottle, a pipe and a knife. Behind the table a woman is leaning against a tree stum...
EditorialFrost fair, 3rd February, 1814. Description based on Dorothy George: View of the Thames during a Frost Fair, St Pauls in the distance. Tents include 'The Free and Easy on the Ice' and 'Wellington for Ever Good Ale'. The barber has a tent placarded 'Sha...
EditorialHindu penitents on a high swing, holding burning coals on a metal plate, and rolling for 30 miles on the ground. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peopl...
EditorialChefs from Vietnamese restaurant Di an Di prepare coals for cooking at Gertie, a Jewish-American restaurant which features food from other eateries on Thursday nights, in Brooklyn, Oct. 8, 2020. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialDesmond Gardner cooks a goanna, a native Australian lizard that he hunted earlier, in a bush oven made from hot coals, sand, bark and leaves, in Marble Bar, Australia on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialMoses' trial with the pharaoh, To test little Moses, the pharaoh had two saucers brought, one with smoldering coals and the other with cherries - or according to a variant with a ruby set ring-. Moses chose the coals and put them in his mouth so that h...
EditorialFigures Playing Cards Card-playing company, In a landscape there are two card-playing men on either side of a table. On the table are stacks of playing cards, a loaf, a bottle, a pipe and a knife. Behind the table a woman is leaning against a tree stum...
EditorialHindu penitents on a high swing, holding burning coals on a metal plate, and rolling for 30 miles on the ground. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peopl...
EditorialFrost fair, 3rd February, 1814. Description based on Dorothy George: View of the Thames during a Frost Fair, St Pauls in the distance. Tents include 'The Free and Easy on the Ice' and 'Wellington for Ever Good Ale'. The barber has a tent placarded 'Sha...
EditorialFrost fair, 3rd February, 1814. Description based on Dorothy George: View of the Thames during a Frost Fair, St Pauls in the distance. Tents include 'The Free and Easy on the Ice' and 'Wellington for Ever Good Ale'. The barber has a tent placarded 'Sha...
EditorialThe exterior, coals etc. Dickinson's comprehensive pictures of the Great Ex. 1854. On display is a tall column; slates and geological specimens. There is a statue in the background of Richard the Lionheart. Image taken from Dickinson's comprehensive p...
EditorialJohn Smeaton's design for a water gin (winding engine) for drawing coals from the pits, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by W. Lowry after an Illustration by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' "Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary," London, 1817.
EditorialHindu penitents on a high swing, holding burning coals on a metal plate, and rolling for 30 miles on the ground. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peopl...
EditorialEgyptian bath with naked male customer being massaged by one attendant in loincloth, while another pours water over his back and a third brings hot coals to heat oils. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergalle...
EditorialAltar of Saints Thomas and Matthew. Centerpiece: An " Indian idol-priest" pierces Saint Thomas with a sword; background: Saint Thomas walks over burning coals; right: Saint Matthew is made a disciple. Around 1515 Oakwood, 140 x 180 cm Inv.992.