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Dad showing off his skill to the surprise of his little daughter in Melbourne, Australia, 1940s.
Photo by Steve Given.
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Two men remove the preserved carcass of a juvenile mammoth named "Dima," 1977. He died at the age of 6-8 months some 40,000 years ago. His stomach still contained traces of his mother's milk
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The stunning wooden spiral staircase of Peles castle in Sinaia, Romania.
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Ancient wooden gate of temple, Purulia, West Bengal
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A 3,400 year old painter's palette originating from ancient Egypt.
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Bronze sculpture by Luo Li Rong. Source: bit.ly/3xDW63S
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A demonstration of how an Ancient Egyptian lock would work
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Rick Winters’ first 172 ft. world record high dive, 1983
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Tuberculosis patients at St. Thomas’ Hospital rest in open-air beds by the River Thames, 1936.
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The Shigir Sculpture is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world, made during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age. The wood it was carved from is around 11,500 years old.
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Indian Soldiers arriving in France, World War I, 1914. A great book on the Indian soldiers who fought and died in WWI: amzn.to/3wDJs67
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Cleopatra's Needle at its original site in Alexandria, Egypt, before it was relocated to England, 1870s.
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A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand. Iwo Jima, 1945.
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The U.S. Pacific fleet getting ready for battle during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944.
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Staircase of the medieval castle of Sperlinga, in Sicily, Italy.
Source: The World of Sicily. bit.ly/39mBiao
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Interviews conducted with hippies in the summer of 1968 in San Francisco.
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci
(Leonardo's sketch portrait of a woman, 1483)
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Hattie Tom, a young Chiricahua Apache, 1899
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Marilyn Monroe performing for the thousands of American troops in Korea, 1954.
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A ghost sculpture at the castle of Vezio, Italy
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Lower part of a leg and foot with a sandal of the statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius(reign 161-180 A.D.) found at Sagalassos, Turkey in 2008.
Photo via BBC
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A 16th Century ring in the collection of the Swedish history museum unfolds into an astronomical sphere.
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A 19th-century battle-ax from Iran. Steel, gold, and silver. Now part of the Caravana Collection
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