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Pictured here is Sandy Allen, who stood 7 feet 7 inches tall and was known in the 1970s as the world’s tallest woman:
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This is Louis Réard, the inventor of the modern bikini, pictured here with his life’s work:
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Did you know that Army members are trained to use weapons with giant replica guns that look like something out of Looney Tunes?
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Here’s another picture of a bunch of soldiers with comically oversized jumbo weapons:
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Here is Abraham Lincoln at his second inauguration, sitting next to Vice Presidents Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson. Lincoln would be assassinated one month later:
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There was another guest at Lincoln’s second inauguration: John Wilkes Booth. Wilkes Booth actually attended the ceremony and can be seen in this picture:
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Speaking of Wilkes Booth, this is Confederate veteran Lewis Payne, one of his co-conspirators, who attacked and tried to kill Secretary of State William Seward at the same time Lincoln was being murdered:
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This extremely ominous image is possibly the first photo of a tornado ever, apparently taken in 1884:
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While testing nuclear bombs, the United States ran a test to see the effects on a hot air balloon flying five miles away. It predictably crashed:
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Here are a bunch of workers at an orchard, showing us how safe and relaxing that type of work was back in the day:
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Nothing too historical here, just a fun picture of some men with a mustachioed giant snowman named “Father of the Glaciers” they built in the early 1900s:
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This is a look at the main drag of the gold rush town of Deadwood, pictured here in the 1800s in the Dakota Territory:
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And this is what Deadwood’s main street looks like today:
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This photo from a Seattle lumberyard in 1919 show just how high stacks of lumber could go in those days:
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This is Margaret Ann Neve, the first female supercentenarian. Born in 1792, she died in 1903 and was the first recorded person to live in three centuries:
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This is the Great Ziggurat of Ur, built over 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, before its excavation:
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And this is what the Ziggurat of Ur looks like today:
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Pictured here is a giant pile of surrendered German soldier helmets, tossed together (ever so delicately) by American soldiers around May 1945:
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Back to Lincoln. This is the actual bed that Lincoln died in on April 15, 1865:
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On the lighter side of presidents, here in all its glory is Dwight Eisenhower absolutely demolishing a hot dog while sitting next to Richard Nixon, who is housing a cigarette:
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Here’s actress Marlene Dietrich kissing a returning soldier out of a ship’s porthole toward the end of World War II:
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This is the unfinished portrait of George Washington that was used as a basis for the design of the $1 bill:
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This is what the Sydney Opera House looked like while under construction in the mid-1960s:
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Here is Philips’ head engineer, Joop Sinjou, introducing the magical technology of the CD to the world in 1979:
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Selfies aren’t a new invention. Here’s a woman taking a selfie from the year 1900:
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NASA once gave some spiders a bunch of different drugs and recorded how it changed the way they made webs:
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This is a photo of the last-to-date EVA (extravehicular activity) on the Moon, taken during Apollo 17 in 1972:
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This is a picture taken during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic. None of the men on the expedition would survive:
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One panel of glass survived the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. This is it:
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These are some of several disguises that US Intelligence thought Adolph Hitler would use if he managed to go into hiding after World War II:
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And, finally, in 1984, a giant dinosaur replica was moved via a helicopter to the Boston Museum of Science: