1026
Tallest man in history, Robert Wadlow with his father at age 10, 1928. At the time he was 6 ft, 6 inches (196cm) tall and 211 lbs. (95kg)
1027
A 2-3-2 Soviet super-speed steam locomotive. Moscow, USSR, 1939.
1028
Italian summer, 1980s. Photos by Slim Aarons
1029
The stunning Persian style St. Petersburg Mosque, Russia
1031
Pictured below is a young boy in the Gardens of Bomarzo, Lazio, Italy 1952.
1032
A ghost sculpture at the castle of Vezio, Italy
1033
Built in the 1240s, Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain") is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.
1034
Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 1948.
1035
The Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
The Met
1036
Drain pipe of Château de Pierrefonds, France, 1393-1407.
1037
Survivors of 1972 of the Infamous Andes plane crash. The passengers resorted to cannibalism to survive 72 days in the snow.
1038
The suitcases of people who were sent to concentration camps, Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum.
1039
A Roman Silver 'Swiss Army Knife', 200 - 300 AD.
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
1040
The armor of Karl X Gustav of Sweden, 1660.
1041
An Inuit otter amulet made out of ivory, c.1870-1880.
1042
An 1800-year-old octopus mosaic on the floor of a Roman bath.
1043
Dolly Parton with her husband Carl Dean, 1960s.
1044
Portrait of a Filipina/Chinese woman from the Philippines, 1875 Photo by Francisco Van Camp
1045
Men of the Seaforth Highlanders rest in a trench with a dog during WW1, 1915.
1046
Graf Zeppelin flying over Montevideo, Uruguay in June of 1934
1047
A WWII era farmer painting stripes on her cow to increase visibility during blackout conditions, in case the cow wandered into the road, 1940s.
1049
A canal being drained and cleaned in Venice, Italy, 1956. Photo by Bill Perlmutter
1050
A coal miner takes a bath after a shift in the mines. Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, April 1943. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
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