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Eiffel Tower during construction. 1887-1889.
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A snake sculpture from U Thong District in Thailand. 6th-11th century CE.
Bangkok National Museum
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Staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci, 1516
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Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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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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The interior of the Orient Express. This long-distance passenger train service was created in 1883.
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A ghost sculpture at the castle of Vezio, Italy
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A statue in Istanbul to honor Tombili, a famous stray cat. He used to sit in this position and watch passers-by.
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"Ratto di Proserpina" is a large Baroque marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, made between 1621 and 1622. He was 23 when he completed this sculpture
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Staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci, 1516
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Statue of King Arthur by Rubin Eynon, Tintagel Castle, England.
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This 'colossus' sculpture was created by Italian sculptor Giambologna in the late 1500s as a symbol of Italy's Apennine mountains.
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Installed in 1410, this 600-year-old clock in Prague is the world's oldest astrological clock still in operation.
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A California teacher teaching the physics of surfing, 1970.
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Amazing detail on this marble sculpture. The Veiled Truth by Antonio Corradini, 1752.
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Soldiers returning home from WWII, 1945
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Aerial view of the Temple of Ramses lll at Medinet Habu, Luxor, Egypt.
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The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together, Holland, 1888.
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A ghost sculpture at the castle of Vezio, Italy
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A statue of Yasuke, an African slave, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and may have been the first black Samurai. bit.ly/3yoqoIo
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Galileo Galilei's first drawings of the moon after viewing it through his telescope in 1609 CE.
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This 'colossus' sculpture was created by Italian sculptor Giambologna in the late 1500s as a symbol of Italy's Apennine mountains.
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1,200 stone sculptures with different facial expressions at the nenbutsu-Ju Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
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Amazing detail on Michaelangelo's Moses. Humans have a small muscle on the forearm that's only visible when they lift a pinky. Because Moses is lifting his pinky, the muscle is contracted.
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