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7000-year-old Neolithic figurines from Romania, called "The Thinker" and "The Sitting Woman." Read more: bit.ly/3BozARY
NYU
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Burial at sea on the USS Intrepid, November 1944.
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JFK on a walk with his daughter Caroline Kennedy, 1960
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A 1400-year-old Ginkgo tree found within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in the Zhongnan Mountains region of China. Photo by Han Fei
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Clay sculpture by Benjamin Victor Bathsheba
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Future President Gerald Ford with teammate Willis Ward at the University of Michigan in 1934. Ford threatened to quit the team when Ward was benched for a game against Georgia Tech, who at the time refused to play against black players.
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The jaws of an ancient Megalodon shark that lived around 23 to 3.6 million years ago vs. a modern-day Great White.
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Zum Riesen is a hotel in Miltenberg, Germany. It’s one of the oldest hotels in the country, dating back to at least 1411.
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Australia televisions switches from black and white to color. March 1, 1975
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A map of every country in the world using a MM/DD/YYYY date format.
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The oldest known temple in the world, Göbeklitepe, Urfa.
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Christopher Reeve as Superman at a photo booth.
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Boy standing in front of fallen statue of Lenin, Ethiopia, 1991
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Skull of a crowned athlete with a gold wreath from Agios Nikolaos, Crete. The flesh disintegrated with time, but the wreath stuck and remained on the skull. Hellenistic Period.
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Erika Kornelia Szeles, was a 15-Year-Old Hungarian Resistance member who fought against the Soviets in the 1956 revolution.
During a resistance operation, Erika was mortally wounded in a street fight with Soviet soldiers on November 8th, 1956.
Color by @EmilWallner
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JFK's funeral at the capitol. November 1963.
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The National Library of Austria, in Hofburg Palace, was constructed in the 18th century & contains 7.4 million books
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Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 1948.
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Oldest Austrian soldier of WW1, a 79-year-old Gaspar Wallnöfer, veteran of Habsburg campaigns in Italy in 1848 and 1866, September 1917
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Badge of the Order of Santiago, made of gold, emeralds, and diamonds. Spain, 1670-1679
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Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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