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Sarcophagus from tombs of Yuya and Thuya, discovered in 1905.
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Carmen Amaya was one of the greatest Flamenco dancers of all time. She was the first female flamenco dancer to master footwork previously reserved for the best male dancers, due to its speed and intensity.
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Dr. Religa monitors his patient’s vitals after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner, 1987.
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The 3,270-year-old Hove amber cup, found in 1856 in Hove, England. It's made of a single piece of amber from northern Europe, suggesting trade links between England and the Baltic even that long ago.
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
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2000-year-old preserved loaf of bread found in the ruins of Pompeii.
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A traditional medieval cave house with a courtyard found in the desert of Libya.
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Arctic Circle people have been protecting their eyes from snow blindness for over 4,000 years with snow goggles (usually carving whalebone, horn, and ivory).
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US cavalry soldiers in front of a tree called "Grizzly Giant," 1900.
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Female worker bottling ketchup at the original Heinz factory circa 1897. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
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Inflatable Tanks used during WW2 as decoys.
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Goofing around before going to the WW1 front, 1914.
"My great grandfather goofing around before he headed to the front. He died on his first day of combat, just four days after he was mobilized” via reddit u/enraged-elephant.
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Garfield phones have been washing on the shore of the Finistère coasts of France for almost four decades. There's a shipping container wedged in the rocks that has been slowly releasing them all these years. Photo by Fred Tanneau. Source: bit.ly/3iH3K9u
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Trinity College is home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries. Inside is The Long Room, which contains 200,000 historic volumes.
Photo by Failte Ireland
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John Cleese playing Football in between takes of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". 1974
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The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture, found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. The sculpture is thought to have been created by Jaume Barba.
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Colorized footage of Berlin in the 1920s
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A Peruvian woman and her baby in the Andes, 1930s.
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People in Times Square, New York City celebrate the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945.
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Albert's Pyramid: Queen Victoria had a 35' (10.6m) pyramidal memorial cairn to her beloved Albert built after his death in 1861.
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The armor of Karl X Gustav of Sweden, 1660.
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A horse-drawn omnibus from the 1890s. Two or three horses would pull them. Companies that ran them like London Omnibus had stables around the city to switch them out periodically.
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