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A village on Guoqui island abandoned by humans over 30 years ago, now covered in vegetation.
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Downtown Manhattan during the blizzard of 1888.
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New York World’s Fair railroad exhibit of historic locomotives, 1939-40
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Lorenza D'Alessandro during the restoration of the tomb of the great Egyptian queen Nefertari, wife of Ramses II, who ruled in the 13th century BCE.
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French soldiers practicing Savate, c. 1896-1899
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In 1969, Life magazine photographer Vernon Merritt III captured this shot of two buddies on a hot summer day in New York City.
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Fountain of Diana of Ephesus, built by Gillis van den Vliete, 1568.
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Võ Thi Thang smiling at the camera after being sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp by the South Vietnamese government. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said "20 years? Your government won't last that long."
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Agatha Christie as a child with her dolls
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The Statue of Liberty's face prior to installation, 1886.
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The Scaligero Castle is a fortress built in the 14th century in Sirmione, Italy.
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Bela Lugosi (Dracula) serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI, 1914.
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This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state since 1960. It has been watered just once in that time.
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A boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins of his home following German aerial bombing of London, England during World War II
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Galileo Galilei's first drawings of the moon after viewing it through his telescope in 1609 CE.
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Ancient Greek silver litra coin, Syracuse, Sicily, c. 466 BC.
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A Roman mosaic depicting a fish. 1st century CE, now housed at the State Historical Museum in Moscow
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Wheelchair made for Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 1740.
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A WWI Red Cross nurse with a rescue dog. The dog was trained to locate the wounded on the battlefield and bark to call attention to them.
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1921 US 1 Dollar Coin with a sword that unlocks the secret vault. The coin was modified by Roman Booteen in 2018.
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Pictured here are Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst who were all part of the non-violent student resistance group called "white rose" in Germany, in 1942
In 1943, all three were convicted of treason and executed by the Gestapo.
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Children in minobashi raincoats going to a new year's event, Niigata prefecture, Japan 1956
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