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Cannabis rights activist Ben Masel smoking a joint while voting in the 1976 Presidential election. Taking advantage of an apparent law that prohibits arrest while voting.
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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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In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, so she was given a barren plot. Oil was discovered there and she became the country's first black millionaire.
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Photos of before and after the excavation and restoration of the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. It was built approximately 4,100 years ago by King Ur-Nammu of the Neo-Sumerian Empire.
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Charlie Chaplin and Italian Boxer Primo Carnera, 1930
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Ancient Egyptian amethyst cat pendant, late Ptolemaic period, 664-30 BC.
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Lawnmower with air conditioning, circa 1950
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Trinity College is home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries. Inside is The Long Room, which contains 200,000 historic volumes.
Photo by Failte Ireland
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An underwater mosaic in the Sunken city of Baia. bit.ly/3dLnEwZ
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The extremely dangerous toddler Auto Strap from a 1960s Sears catalog.
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The discovery of the ancient Statue of Antinous found in Delphi, Greece during an excavation in 1894
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The U.S. Pacific fleet getting ready for battle during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944.
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Amazing detail on this marble sculpture. The Veiled Truth by Antonio Corradini, 1752.
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A head statue of Queen Nefertiti (14th century BC), wife of Akhenaten. It was discovered In 1912 by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchard.
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A union soldier goofing around while getting his portrait taken.
In most old photos — those taken in the 19th century and early 20th century — people aren't smiling or goofing around, which makes this photo so much more striking.
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A coal miner waiting to get into the communal shower at the end of his shift, taken in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1958. Photo by Max Scheler.
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The Uffington White Horse in England is a prehistoric hill figure possibly dating as far back as 1000 BCE and was made of white chalk.
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Two loggers hold a cross-cut saw across a giant Sequoia tree’s trunk in California, 1917
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"Peaceful Start for the New Year", a painting of the Forbidden City by Ding Guanpeng. China, Qing dynasty, 1748
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Young punks in Communist Hungary - Budapest, 1982
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Võ Thi Thang smiling at the camera after being sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp by the South Vietnamese government. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said "20 years? Your government won't last that long."
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David Attenborough entertains Prince Charles and Princess Anne with a cockatoo. 1958
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Silver skull pocket-watch made by the Genevan watchmaker Isaac Penard c.1650, Met
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