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Ta Prohm, one of the Temple’s at Angkor in Cambodia. Photo by David Bleeker.
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Men waiting in a line for the possibility of a job during the Great Depression.
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Roman-style lead pipes in Bath, England dating to thee 1st - 2nd century CE. Some of the pipes are still used today.
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Medieval ax with a preserved wooden handle discovered on the island of Ledniczka in Poland
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Pharaoh Tutankhamun's sandal made of leather, gold and faience.
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Studio Portrait of a German Soldier, WWI The flowers tucked into his uniform are an indication that he will be sent to the frontline soon.
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A Samurai helmet made and signed by Myochin Nobuie, one of Japan's most famous metalsmiths. 1525.
Isreal museum, Jerusalem, Isreal. © The Archaeologist
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Chinese statue of a Buddha. Mummy inside gold-painted papier-mâché statue is believed to be that of Liuquan, a Buddhist master of Chinese Meditation School. Photo by M. Elsevier Stokmans
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Construction of the Eiffel Tower. July, 1888
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Weinhardt Mansion built in 1888 in Chicago, IL. Source: bit.ly/3voFEGP
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A boy selling lemonade with a portable lemonade dispenser. Berlin, 1931.
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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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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci
(Leonardo's sketch portrait of a woman, 1483)
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US cavalry soldiers in front of a tree called "Grizzly Giant," 1900.
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Wheelchair made for Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 1740.
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The Boxer of Quirinal is a life sized ancient Greek bronze statue of a battered pugilist resting after a fight
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Stairs carved from a solid tree trunk, 1851. Palace of the Princes of Liechtenstein in Lednice, Czech Republic.
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A cup of tea and a bit of peace back in the 1800s.
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In 2005, a glass company set up a bullet-proof glass poster case containing $3 million at a bus stop in Vancouver, Canada. If anyone was able to break the glass they got to keep the cash. Nobody succeeded, despite plenty trying.
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This is an early example of a successful cranioplasty from Peru (400 CE). The patient survived, as evidenced by the well-healed in situ cranioplasty made from a gold inlay.
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An outdoor hockey game in Sweden is cut short, 1959.
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"The Veiled Christ" by Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1753. It was created with a single block of marble.
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Sergeant William Henry “Black Death” Johnson of the Harlem Hellfighters wearing his Croix de Guerre medal ca. 1918. In northern France, Johnson single-handedly fought off a German raiding party receiving 21 wounds in order to save fellow soldier Pvt Needham Roberts.
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