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A World War 1 memorial in Vácrátót, Hungary - a family missing their father.
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During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below.
60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims.
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John F. Kennedy campaigning Door-to-Door in West Virginia, 1960
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In 2005, a glass company set up a bullet-proof glass poster case containing $3 million at a bus stop in Vancouver, Canada. If anyone was able to break the glass they got to keep the cash. Nobody succeeded, despite plenty trying.
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A British blacksmith removing the leg irons off a slave, 1907.
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Inky paw prints left by a cat on a 15th-century manuscript.
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The guards of Maharajah Ram Singh III in the Royal Palace of Jaipur in India, 1858.
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Róża Maria Goździewska, the youngest Polish Nurse in the Warsaw Uprising at 8 years old 1944. Photo: Eugeniusz Lokajski “Brok”. Colored by AlixOfHesse
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Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, by Antonio Canova, c. 1790. Louvre Museum, Paris.
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A 9.4-inch mortar made to look like a sitting tiger. India, 1770-1799
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Lonnie Johnson, the NASA engineer who invented the Super Soaker.
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A monument was erected in Tikrit, Iraq of the shoe thrown at George W. Bush.
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Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850-1910.
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Collecting light - Inside the Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt. Photo: Guillaume Roche
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During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below.
60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims.
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Cannabis rights activist Ben Masel smoking a joint while voting in the 1976 Presidential election. Taking advantage of an apparent law that prohibits arrest while voting.
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British troops march past the Great Pyramids in Egypt, 1940.
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Rock Crystal Ewer, c. 909 CE, Fatimid Egypt. This is one of seven left in the world.
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An astonishing neo-Assyrian amethyst vase, 8th century BCE. Now part of a private collection.
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An indigenous man knocks over a statue of Spanish conquistador Diego de Mazariegos on the 500th year anniversary of Columbus arriving in the Americas. Chiapas, Mexico, 1992.
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1,200 stone sculptures with different facial expressions at the nenbutsu-Ju Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
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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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A 1947 wedding dress made from the parachute that saved the groom's life during World War Two.
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