551
A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice (1619-1694). The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed. Now on display at the Museo Correr in Venice
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John Cleese playing Football in between takes of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". 1974
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Teddy Roosevelt's diary on the day both his wife and mother died, 1884.
555
The discovery of the ancient Statue of Antinous found in Delphi, Greece during an excavation in 1894
557
Muhammad Ali training underwater in Miami, 1961
558
This 2,000-year-old olive tree in Puglia, Italy is called "The Thinking Tree" by locals.
Photo by Nicola Di Tinco
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Audrey Hepburn in Rome, 1960. Photo by her son, Luca Dotti.
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Cutting a sunbeam, 1886. Photo by Adam Diston.
561
Egyptian men watch as the Graf Zeppelin floats over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, while atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu. 1931.
563
The last photograph of Lenin, May 1923. Here he is with his doctor and sister months before he died.
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17th century Emerald cup made of 252 carats of pure emerald with Persian verses inscribed on it. It belonged to Emperor Jehangir of Mughal India.
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A 2-3-2 Soviet super-speed steam locomotive. Moscow, USSR, 1939.
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“Undine rising from the waters" is an amazingly detailed marble statue by artist Chauncey Bradley Ives.
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A 2,000-year-old tomb carved from a single rock, Arabia.
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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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A 5,000-year-old wooden boat used by the pharaohs discovered by French archaelogists
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The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945.
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Egyptian or Phoenician glass dog head bead. 6th-4th Century BCE
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7000~8000 year old carving of a camel on a cliff in northern Saudi Arabia.
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