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Michelangelo completed his marble masterpiece, the Pietà, in 1499 when he was just 24 years old
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Carving of a ghost nursing her child. Japan, c. 1850.
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The first known photo of a surfer. Oahu, Hawaii 1890.
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78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., May 1922.
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The Procrastinators Club of America protest against the War of 1812. Philadelphia, 9 March 1966.
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Walt Disney filming on a beach, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 1941
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Ancient wooden gate of temple, Purulia, West Bengal
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Staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci, 1516
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Max van Oppenheim photographed on an ancient Roman bridge that spans the Wadi al Murr near Mosul, Iraq, 1920s
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A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand. Iwo Jima, 1945.
536
Yakhchāls were a type of evaporative cooler used to store ice. Primarily found in Persia, their widespread use began in 400 BCE, allowing the storage of ice year-round. Photo by Pastaitaken. bit.ly/3vLkbVf
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Waiters serving steel workers lunch above the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1930.
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Bronze rhinoceros inlaid with moire of gold and silver.
Western Han Dynasty, 206 BC-8 AD
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Gustav II Adolf of Sweden's wedding outfit and Saddle, 1620, Royal Armoury in Stockholm
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"After the Celebration" - A drunken man in top hat and tails clings to a lamp-post in early morning fog, London, 1934.
Photo by British photographer Bill Brandt. Source: amzn.to/3Lssg9f
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These paintings in Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in France are more than 36,000 years old.
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Crystal spearhead found in a 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb in Spain. The tomb had the remains of 25 individuals, several of whom had consumed a poisonous substance
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Close detail of "The Green Man”, 1200's AD, Early Gothic, Bamberg Cathedral, Germany.
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Statue of Liberty undergoing some restoration work 1984-86, New York.
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The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together, Holland, 1888.
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A mountain of bison skulls before being used in fertilizer in 1870. Bison were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 19th century.
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Cast-iron shape of a "bowl", possibly from Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (15th century) and fallen on ground during the Taiping Rebellion in 1856.
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Ancient Greek silver litra coin, Syracuse, Sicily, c. 466 BC.
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A 3000-year-old bronze statue was unearthed in 2021 at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in southwest China.
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