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Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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"West Wind" by the 19th-century sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould. Source: bit.ly/38BTQU5
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Rio de Janeiro's Botanical Garden was created by King John VI of Portugal in 1808. Today, it's home to 6,500 species of plants distributed throughout an area of 130 acres. Read more: bit.ly/3hSGUtD
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Amazing detail on Michaelangelo's Moses. Humans have a small muscle on the forearm that's only visible when they lift a pinky. Because Moses is lifting his pinky, the muscle is contracted.
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The Le Passe-muraille (Passer-Through-Walls ) sculpture in the Paris catacombs
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Samurai, 1866. Photograph by Felice Beato
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The first known photo of a surfer. Oahu, Hawaii 1890.
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A 2000-year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons discovered by archaeologist Veselin Ignatov.
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A statue of Yasuke, an African slave, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and may have been the first black Samurai. bit.ly/3yoqoIo
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The ancient Greek city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey.
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The Le Passe-muraille (Passer-Through-Walls ) sculpture in the Paris catacombs
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A 2000-year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons discovered by archaeologist Veselin Ignatov.
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What the earliest modern humans likely looked like 160,000 years ago.
Courtesy of Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
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The jaws of an ancient Megalodon shark that lived around 23 to 3.6 million years ago vs. a modern-day Great White.
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The ornate helmet of Ferdinand Hapsburg II, the Holy Roman Emperor. 16th century AD.
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A map of every country in the world using a MM/DD/YYYY date format.
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The National Library of Austria, in Hofburg Palace, was constructed in the 18th century & contains 7.4 million books
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A traditional medieval cave house with a courtyard found in the desert of Libya.
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A sailor meets his baby for the first time after months at sea, 1940s.
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An ancient Indian swimming pool from the 5th century CE that's still used to this day.
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One of the earliest photos of the Taj Mahal, India, 1850s.
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The footage used to develop the first Mortal Kombat released in 1992
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Statue of Liberty undergoing some restoration work 1984-86, New York.
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Photos of before and after the excavation and restoration of the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. It was built approximately 4,100 years ago by King Ur-Nammu of the Neo-Sumerian Empire.
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Samurai octopus helmet, 1700s, Japan.
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