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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).
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A 3,000-year-old Assyrian relief of a soldier diving under a river using an inflatable goatskin bag.
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The suitcases of people who were sent to concentration camps, Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum.
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Closeup of the uraeus on the body of King Tutankhamun’s first inner coffin New Kingdom 18th Dynasty Egypt 1332-1323 BCE
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The 3,200-year-old tomb of Queen Nefertari also called the Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt. The paintings, which are found on almost every available surface in the tomb, are considered to be the best-preserved and most eloquent decorations of any Egyptian burial site
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A 2000-year-old giant cat geoglyph found amid Peru's famous Nazca Lines.
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Built during the Safavid Empire, the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is a triumph of Persian architecture.
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A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 by Berenice Abbott.
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The Kremos, a Swiss family of acrobats. Paris, 1896.
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Theodore Roosevelt reads a book on his ranch, 1905.
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When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 1930s started using flowered fabric for their sacks.
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A 2,000-year-old tomb carved from a single rock, Arabia.
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Indian Soldiers arriving in France, World War I, 1914. A great book on the Indian soldiers who fought and died in WWI: amzn.to/3wDJs67
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One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia
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Egyptian men watch as the Graf Zeppelin floats over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, while atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu. 1931.
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A Samurai helmet made and signed by Myochin Nobuie, one of Japan's most famous metalsmiths. 1525.
Isreal museum, Jerusalem, Isreal. © The Archaeologist
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A young boy playing the banjo with his dog, 1920.
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Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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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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A 3,000-year-old Assyrian relief of a soldier diving under a river using an inflatable goatskin bag.
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This was the original "distracted boyfriend meme" but back then, it was the distracted girlfriend, 1950.
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