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Men waiting in a line for the possibility of a job during the Great Depression.
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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 statue probably representing the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra III, 142-101 BCE, in the sunken city of Thonis, Heracleion.
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Interviews conducted with hippies in the summer of 1968 in San Francisco.
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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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A giant Cardon cactus in Mexico sometime in the 1890s. This specimen was 8 meters tall and weighed 10 tons. Photo by Leon Digue
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Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850-1910.
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Located in Air Massif, Niger are two of the biggest animal rock petroglyphs in the world, called the Dabous Giraffes, dated 8000 BC.
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Hegra, or Mada’in Salih is an archaeological site within Al Madinah Region in Hejaz, Saudi Arabia. A majority of the remains date from the Nabatean kingdom (1st century CE). The site constitutes the kingdom's southernmost and largest settlement after its capital Petra
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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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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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Staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci, 1516
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A bird's-eye view of Masada, built by Herod the Great as a palace complex on top of an isolated rock plateau at the Judaean Desert.
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Oldest Austrian soldier of WW1, a 79-year-old Gaspar Wallnöfer, veteran of Habsburg campaigns in Italy in 1848 and 1866, September 1917
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A bracelet clasp with a jellyfish pattern on an emerald cameo, 18th century, England
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These paintings in Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in France are more than 36,000 years old.
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The Bronx Zoo had a 1963 exhibition called "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World." It was a mirror.
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Photos of before and after the excavation and restoration of the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. It was built approximately 4,100 years ago by King Ur-Nammu of the Neo-Sumerian Empire.
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Wedding rings removed from Holocaust victims before they were executed, 1945
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Teddy Roosevelt's diary on the day both his wife and mother died, 1884.
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Crystal spearhead found in a 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb in Spain. The tomb had the remains of 25 individuals, several of whom had consumed a poisonous substance
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Inflatable Tanks used during WW2 as decoys.
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The Travelers, also known as Les Voyageurs, are bronze surrealist sculptures by the French artist Bruno Catalano. The central part of each statue is missing. The artist has said that the statues are meant to represent those who leave their home country.
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Lorenza D'Alessandro during the restoration of the tomb of the great Egyptian queen Nefertari, wife of Ramses II, who ruled in the 13th century BCE.
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