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A 5,000-year-old Harappan stepwell found in Dholavira, India, in 2014
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Cutting a sunbeam, 1886. Photo by Adam Diston.
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Robert DeNiro and Pacino on the set of Godfather II, 1974
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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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Charlie Chaplin photographed with Winston Churchill on the set of the film “City Lights” in the United States, 1929
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A digital reconstruction by Mozaik Education of Ramesses II Temple, Abu Simbel, Egypt.
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The oldest known temple in the world, Göbeklitepe, Urfa.
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Kitten mascot of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, ca. 1945.
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It took just over a year to build the Empire State Building, utilizing as many as 3,400 men each day.
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A beach was stolen in Jamaica in 2008. 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this day.
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The stunning wooden spiral staircase of Peles castle in Sinaia, Romania.
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Carving of a dog on St John of Nepomuk's statue glowing gold from people petting it for hundreds of years.
Photo by Frank Boston
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Samurai, 1866. Photograph by Felice Beato
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"West Wind" by the 19th-century sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould. Source: bit.ly/38BTQU5
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The oldest crown in England. Crown of White Princess originally belonged to Queen Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England, 14th century.
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Olga Schubert, a 5-year-old girl, photographed after a days work picking shrimp at Biloxi Canning Factory
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A Great Depression Christmas dinner of cabbage, potatoes, and pie in the home of Earl Pauley, near Smithfield, Iowa, 1936.
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2000-year-old preserved loaf of bread found in the ruins of Pompeii.
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This 'colossus' sculpture was created by Italian sculptor Giambologna in the late 1500s as a symbol of Italy's Apennine mountains.
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The helmet of Sultan Mehmet Fatih, who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21, ending the Byzantine Empire.
Topkapi Museum
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A Ukrainian-American family celebrates the death of Stalin, 1953
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The entrance of the Temple of Edfu in Egypt. Built between 237 and 57 BCE and dedicated to the god Horus.
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Mexican Revolutionary soldiers, 1914. Color by Sanna Dullaway
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