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Massive Roman aqueduct built in Segovia, Spain by emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 CE). More Roman innovations: bit.ly/3r2Spnt
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Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party headquarters, 1934
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What the earliest modern humans likely looked like 160,000 years ago.
Courtesy of Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
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Amazing colors and symmetry of Sri Ranganathswamy Temple, India
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Amazing detail on this marble sculpture. The Veiled Truth by Antonio Corradini, 1752.
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Fallingwater under snow, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935.
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3300-year-old wool trousers discovered in the vast Yanghai cemetery near Turfan, northwestern China.
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The National Library of Austria, in Hofburg Palace, was constructed in the 18th century & contains 7.4 million books
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The armor of Karl X Gustav of Sweden, 1660.
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The great Pyramids of Giza from above.
Photo by Mohamed Elsayed.
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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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The Pazyryk Carpet is the world's oldest intact carpet. This 2,500-year-old carpet was found frozen in a Kurgan in the Altai Mountains.
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Dad showing off his skill to the surprise of his little daughter in Melbourne, Australia, 1940s.
Photo by Steve Given.
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An ancient wooden Orthodox Church, Krasnaya Lyaga, Russia, 1655.
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Garfield phones have been washing on the shore of the Finistère coasts of France for almost four decades. There's a shipping container wedged in the rocks that has been slowly releasing them all these years. Photo by Fred Tanneau. Source: bit.ly/3iH3K9u
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This 9000-year-old stone mask is the oldest mask in the world, and was found in the Judean Desert in Israel
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Johnny Cash before going on stage at Folsom Prison, 1968
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US cavalry soldiers in front of a tree called "Grizzly Giant," 1900.
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1,500-year-old ceramic Maya figurine that included a removable helmet. El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala
Photo by Kenneth Garrett
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A kid meets André the Giant sometime in the 1970s.
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Roman mosaic discovered in 2021 in old town of Hvar, Croatia.
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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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