951
U.S. Army technician Alvin Harley of the 9th Armored Division receives a kiss from a liberated French girl on Saint Valentine’s Day. Abancourt, Oise, Picardy, France. February 14, 1945. Color by Chiel Zilverberg.
953
Relief panel depicting a winged supernatural figure, Assyrian, ca. 883–859 BCE
954
Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961
955
An audience hall at Nijō Castle. Japan, Edo period, 1626
956
Arctic Circle people have been protecting their eyes from snow blindness for over 4,000 years with snow goggles (usually carving whalebone, horn, and ivory).
957
Teddy Roosevelt's diary on the day both his wife and mother died, 1884.
958
Two men remove the preserved carcass of a juvenile mammoth named "Dima," 1977. He died at the age of 6-8 months some 40,000 years ago. His stomach still contained traces of his mother's milk
959
Psyche revived by Cupid’s kiss by Antonio Canova, 1787-1793
960
The Bronx Zoo had a 1963 exhibition called "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World." It was a mirror.
961
A 3,300-year-old hairstyle on a preserved ancient Egyptian head
962
The Scaligero Castle is a fortress built in the 14th century in Sirmione, Italy.
963
Serving a snack on Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969
964
Painters posing on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1910s. Photograph by Eugene de Salignac.
965
A Peruvian woman and her baby in the Andes, 1930s.
966
17th century Emerald cup made of 252 carats of pure emerald with Persian verses inscribed on it. It belonged to Emperor Jehangir of Mughal India.
967
Former president Andrew Jackson aged 78 in 1845, the year that he died. One of the few existing photographs of him.
968
A stone sculpture of a woman with a long embellished braid. Bhu Varaha Swamy temple, Tamil Nadu, 10th century CE, India
970
The original patent from 1891 for a toilet paper roll actually shows the correct rolling direction.
971
Pyramid of captured WWI German helmets in Grand Centrel Station, New York (1918)
972
The ancient Greek city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey.
973
Statue of King Arthur by Rubin Eynon, Tintagel Castle, England.
974
A boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins of his home following German aerial bombing of London, England during World War II
975
Roland, an elephant seal, getting a snow bath from his handler at Berlin Zoo, c. 1930.
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