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Hookah reservoir made of white jade and inlaid with gold, ruby, and emeralds. Deccan, India, 17th-18th century
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Olmec terracotta sculpture, 900-500 BC, Xochipala, Mexico.
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32 pigeons won medals for valor in WW2, along with 18 dogs, 3 horses, and one cat.
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Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961
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Admiral Nelson's coat from the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. It includes the hole in the shoulder caused by the musket ball that killed him.
Photo by Steve Vidler
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Garden frescoes from the House of Golden Bracelet. 14—37 CE, Archaeological Park of Pompeii
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Vladimir Putin at the Age of 5 with Maria Ivanova. USSR, July, 1958
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20,000 Americans attend a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 20, 1939
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"Tree of Life" mosaic from Hisham's Palace, built in the 8th century. CE in Jericho by the Umayyad Caliphate.
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Polish girl, Lidka, 21, member of the resistance, during Warsaw uprising 1944. Survived the war, died in 1993.
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Sculptures in Khajuraho, India. Carved directly into sandstone and depicting daily life, erotica and social and cultural values. 10th-11th century CE.
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Photographers in front of the Hermès Store in Monaco during the Grand Prix, 1968
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A Hungarian anti-communist revolutionary holds a Molotov cocktail behind his back, 1956.
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The fan vaults on the ceiling of Bath Abbey, 1500's.
Photo by Angelo Hornak
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"Amalthée and the goat of Jupiter" by Pierre Julien, marble, 1786-1787.
La Laiterie de la Reine, France.
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A Soviet border guard on duty in his winter uniform, 1960s.
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Albert Einstein and Marie Skłodowska Curie reminiscing by a lake in 1929.
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The ornate helmet of Ferdinand Hapsburg II, the Holy Roman Emperor. 16th century AD.
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When airlines served a full meal in flight, 1958
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In 1945 a B-25 bomber got lost in the fog and crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building.
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Neuschwanstein Castle, high in the foothills of the Bavarian alps, was built for King Ludwig II in a neo-Romanesque style from 1869-86
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The Angel of Death, sculpture of a funeral gondola, Venice. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1951
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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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The U.S. Navy airship USS Akron flying over Lower Manhattan sometime in the early 1930s.
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