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Here’s Albert Einstein with his sister, Maja Einstein… can you see the resemblance?
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This is American soldier Ivan Babcock in 1945 wearing the recovered Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, found hidden deep inside a German castle:
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This is a picture of a Russian farm worker and his family listening to a radio for one of the first times:
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This is a World War I soldier wearing an experimental weapon designed for charging enemy trenches:
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For five months in 1969, Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing so scientists could study the effects of erosion. Here’s what the empty falls looked like:
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And here’s what it looked like when the falls were “turned on” again and the dam upriver was removed upon completion of the work:
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This is Jeanne Calment, the longest-lived person ever verified. Here she is at the tender age of 120 years and 239 days:
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She apparently ate two pounds of chocolate a week and smoked until age 119, passing away at age 122:
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And here she is as a slightly younger woman in 1895:
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On the day their rocket blasted off to the Moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts enjoyed a breakfast of steak and eggs, chosen to minimize bathroom needs during the early stages of the flight:
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Speaking of space, this is what an eclipse looks like from above. Way, way above:
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This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like while it was under construction in 1888:
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And here’s what it looked like a few years after it was finished at the 1900 Paris Exposition:
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This is Alfred Stratton, an 18-year-old who lost both arms in the Civil War after being struck by a cannonball. He survived the war but passed away a little over a decade later, at the age of 29 or 30:
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In 1940, a German fighter-bomber was shot down over England and promptly paraded through the streets of London:
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In the 1890s, an upright Roman statue, the Statue of Antinous, was found intact and on its pedestal beneath the surface of the ground:
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This is 12-year-old Hussein Abdul Rasoul, a young worker on Howard Carter’s expedition, who discovered the first step that ultimately led to the entrance of Tutankhamun’s tomb:
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Here’s what the entrance to the tomb looked like after it had been cleared and uncovered:
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And here’s Howard Carter inspecting the just-then-found sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in 1922:
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This is Otto Richter, a German Jew, and his wife protesting at Ellis Island to oppose his deportation back to Nazi Germany after he was found without proper immigration documents in 1936:
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This is what California’s Highway 101 looked like in 1912:
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In 1921, Canada developed Defence Scheme 1, a contingency plan outlining how it would invade the United States if the need ever arose:
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This photo shows a group of men “penny hanging,” a practice where you’d pay a penny or two for a rope to lean over and sleep on for the night. Some say it’s where the term “hangover” came from, but that’s not quite true:
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Here’s another picture of some men actually penny hanging in real life:
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In 1931, Al Capone and his son attended a charity baseball game, where they had the privilege of meeting Gabby “Old Tomato Face” Hartnett of the Cubs:
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This is a mannequin called “The Machine,” used to practice childbirth, first developed in the 18th century by the French midwife Angélique du Coudray:
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This is what the Louvre Pyramid looked like while it was under construction in the late 1980s:
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Speaking of France, here are two construction workers passing a flag through the breakthrough hole in the English Channel:
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These are apparently the requirements for being a flight attendant for one airline in 1954:
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This is how big the anchor chains of a ship are:
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This is the terrifying mask Edward Paisnel, also known as the Beast of Jersey, wore during his attacks on victims:
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This is the first-ever photograph of an operation, taken in 1847 in Boston:
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Finally, here’s a picture of the time Shaqille O’Neal dunked so hard on the basket that the entire thing came down on his head:
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