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JFK being served fettuccine Alfredo by its inventor, Alfredo di Lelio at the restaurant Alfredo in Rome, Italy. 1963.
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Malcolm X visiting the Great Pyramids during his pilgrimage to Makkah, 1964
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Gloucester Cathedral cloisters are famous for their beautiful fan vaults built in the late 14th & early 15th century
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The Golden Gate Bridge under construction in 1937.
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This is the oldest surviving deck of 52 playing cards, made in the Burgundian Netherlands C.1475
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Berlin, 1896.
Color by Nineteenth Century Videos Back to Life
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Small sculpture of death with a bow. Early 16th century Germany
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A photo putting the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza into perspective.
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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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Robe and Axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, who was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1864. During his tenure he executed 514 people.
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The jaws of an ancient Megalodon shark that lived around 23 to 3.6 million years ago vs. a modern-day Great White.
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Dog’s remains from the 1st century CE. The owner must have loved him very much. They were buried with the vessel and head on a piece of leather. The tomb was discovered in Cologne (Germany).
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Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in a Mexico city jail, 1956
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Bison paintings in the Cave of Altamira, Spain. They were painted over 20,000 years between 35,000 and 15,000 BC. Photo by Thom Quine.
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A Peruvian woman and her baby in the Andes, 1930s.
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A World War 1 memorial in Vácrátót, Hungary - a family missing their father.
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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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Jimi Hendrix playing with the 101st Airbourne while stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky in 1962
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Vladimir Putin at the Age of 5 with Maria Ivanova. USSR, July, 1958
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Clay sculpture by Benjamin Victor Bathsheba
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Close detail of "The Green Man”, 1200's AD, Early Gothic, Bamberg Cathedral, Germany.
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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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