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One of the three Roman pools of Gafsa, in Tunisia, two of which are open. Built in the 2nd century BCE, they are about five meters deep and are fed by hot water springs
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The 2,300-year-old Grand Theatre of Ephesus, in Turkey, before and after excavation
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Coal Miners coming up a Coal Mine Elevator after a day of work in 1920's Belgium
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Northern gate to the Bayon temple complex, with 4 giant faces. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 12th-13th century
Photo by Emilio Labrador
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New Yorkers stop to watch the "Seinfeld" finale in Times Square, 1998. Photo by Ken Murray.
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A 1947 wedding dress made from the parachute that saved the groom's life during World War Two.
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Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin. 1889.
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The 'Hindsgavl Dagger', 1900-1700 BC. This Neolithic flint dagger is an amazing example of flint knapping.
National Museum of Denmark
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Michelangelo completed his marble masterpiece, the Pietà, in 1499 when he was just 24 years old
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The Lithuanian national basketball team poses for a photo during the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. After leaving the USSR, they relied on outside funding, including a sponsorship from the Grateful Dead.
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The RMS Queen Elizabeth arriving in New York with soldiers returning home after the end of World War 2, 1945.
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Stairway to Heaven, the ancient Inca Trail leading to Machu Picchu, Peru. Photo: Kurt Gordon
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Medieval ax with a preserved wooden handle discovered on the island of Ledniczka in Poland
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A monument was erected in Tikrit, Iraq of the shoe thrown at George W. Bush.
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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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A little girl holds a penguin's flipper as they walk together around The London Zoo, 1937.
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Paul Newman boating in Venice, Italy during a 1963 film festival.
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Women on motorcycles in Great Britain, 1930s.
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The Hollywood sign right after it was built, 1923
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Boris Karloff breaks for tea, on a leaning board, during the filming of
Frankenstein (1930).
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A crowded Huntington Beach, California, during the Oil boom of 1928.
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English castle built in Bouzies, France during the Hundred Years war, 14th century.
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