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A horse-drawn omnibus from the 1890s. Two or three horses would pull them. Companies that ran them like the London Omnibus company had stables around the city to switch them out periodically.
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Coal Miners coming up a Coal Mine Elevator after a day of work in 1920's Belgium
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A 2000-year-old giant cat geoglyph found amid Peru's famous Nazca Lines.
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This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state since 1960. It has been watered just once in that time.
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Haid al-Jazil is a 500-year-old mud-brick village on top of a massive boulder. Wadi Dawan, Yemen.
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John F. Kennedy campaigning Door-to-Door in West Virginia, 1960
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A 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Bead Dress
The Penn Museum
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Queen Isabel II, veiled, 1855 C by Camillo Torreggiani. Masterful use of light and shadows to make it look like real lace.
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A World War 1 memorial in Vácrátót, Hungary - a family missing their father.
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Boys working in a coal mine, 1911. Photo by Reinhard Schultz
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A 19th-century battle-ax from Iran. Steel, gold, and silver. Now part of the Caravana Collection
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An ancient Egyptian Ring with Two ducks, Gold, Ramesses IV, New Kingdom Egypt, now in Louvre
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Built during the Safavid Empire, the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is a triumph of Persian architecture.
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The cast of Star Wars without costumes. Harrison Ford (Han Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), 1977.
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Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party headquarters, 1934
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A 16th Century ring in the collection of the Swedish history museum unfolds into an astronomical sphere.
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Aerial view of the Temple of Ramses lll at Medinet Habu, Luxor, Egypt.
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A circular book dating back to 1590 CE held by the University of Forsberg, Germany.
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The great Pyramids of Giza from above.
Photo by Mohamed Elsayed.
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A 2,000-year-old tomb carved from a single rock, Arabia.
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A Corinthian helmet and skull from the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. When found, the skull was still inside the helmet.
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A map of every country in the world using a MM/DD/YYYY date format.
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English castle built in Bouzies, France during the Hundred Years war, 14th century.
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The 2000-year-old tree of Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico. It has the largest trunk diameter in the world. Its circumference is close to 60m.
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