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A smiling girl in a kimono on New Year's Day. Japan, 1914
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The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together, Holland, 1888.
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A statue in Istanbul to honor Tombili, a famous stray cat. He used to sit in this position and watch passers-by.
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An armored Japanese Samurai of the Tokugawa shogunate photographed by photographer Felice Beato in the 1860s. Read more: amzn.to/3sVTrCP
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The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945.
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A terrace at a cafe in Capri, Italy, 1949. Photo by Ralph Crane
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The footage used to develop the first Mortal Kombat released in 1992
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The Pazyryk Carpet is the world's oldest intact carpet. This 2,500-year-old carpet was found frozen in a Kurgan in the Altai Mountains.
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Bikes modified to ride railroad tracks, Pellston, Michigan, 1910.
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Mary Wallace: First female bus driver for Chicago Transit Authority, 1974.
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A photograph of the oldest house in Hamburg, Germany, 1898. Built in 1524, it was demolished on December 8th, 1910 despite protesting locals. Color by Angelina Karpunina, bit.ly/36N26MD
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Amazing colors and symmetry of Sri Ranganathswamy Temple, India
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A Gargoyle of Notre Dame, 1920. Photo by Pierre Yves-Petit.
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During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below.
60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims.
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Chichen Itza was pre-Columbian city built by Mayans. Located in Tinúm Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico.
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Borobudur temple in Central Java, Indonesia. It was built between the 8th-9th centuries CE, by the Shailendra dynasty. It is the largest Buddhist temple in the world.
Photo by chaksproject
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2000 year-old Roman face cream/lotion. Dating back to II AD. Object was found in the temple complex dedicated to Mars. It's world's oldest cosmetic face cream and it has finger marks in the lid.
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Grand Staircase in the Palace of Knossos, Crete, 2200-2000 BC
Photo by Steve Jurvetson
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Excavations in Mezhyrich, Ukraine, revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones in 1965. These 15,000 year old dwellings, are some of the oldest shelters known to be constructed by prehistoric man.
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"Tree of Life" mosaic from Hisham's Palace, built in the 8th century. CE in Jericho by the Umayyad Caliphate.
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A photo putting the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza into perspective.
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