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A cup of tea and a bit of peace back in the 1800s.
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The Statue of Liberty's face prior to installation, 1886.
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The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture, found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. The sculpture is thought to have been created by Jaume Barba.
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The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri that were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE). IT'S the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. With x-rays, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia
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In 1969, Life magazine photographer Vernon Merritt III captured this shot of two buddies on a hot summer day in New York City.
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Built during the Safavid Empire, the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is a triumph of Persian architecture.
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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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Aerial view of the Temple of Ramses lll at Medinet Habu, Luxor, Egypt.
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President Reagan Reacts to a Balloon Popping During Speech (1987)
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A 17th-century Ottoman tent made of silk and gilded leather.
Dresden Armoury
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Intricate floor mosaic in the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenzi, Italy.
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Weinhardt Mansion built in 1888 in Chicago, IL. Source: bit.ly/3voFEGP
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The suitcases of people who were sent to concentration camps, Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum.
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New Yorkers stop to watch the "Seinfeld" finale in Times Square, 1998. Photo by Ken Murray.
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Italian summer, 1980s. Photos by Slim Aarons
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Võ Thi Thang smiling at the camera after being sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp by the South Vietnamese government. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said "20 years? Your government won't last that long."
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"Girls in the Windows" taken by Ormond Gigli in 1960 in NYC. The building was knocked down the next day.
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Fallingwater under snow, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935.
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A World War 1 memorial in Vácrátót, Hungary - a family missing their father.
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The Nemean Lion Parade burgonet of Charles V made by famed armorer Filippo Negroli in Milan c. 1541
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The world’s largest log cabin in Portland, Oregon, USA 1938. Built In 1905 burned down In 1964
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Albert Einstein playing his violin, 1941
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Vladimir Putin at the Age of 5 with Maria Ivanova. USSR, July, 1958
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Iron workers on the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1973
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