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Bomb damaged buildings around St Paul’s Cathedral, London, January 1942.

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1949, Family Day.

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What taking a bath looked like in 1908. 

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A 10-year-old Barbara Streisand with her brother Sheldon in Brooklyn, New York City, 1952. #historicalphotos #vintage #barbarastreisand

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Gold Greek ring, 1st century AD

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October 20, 1916 - Russian Battleship Imperatritsa Mariya Sinks by Internal Explosion

Pictured - Imperatritsa Mariya, or Empress Maria, was one of the lead dreadnoughts in the Imperial Russian Navy.

Misfortune befell the Imperial Russian Navy on October 20, 1916, when the spontaneous combustion of ammunition propellants caused an internal explosion that sank the dreadnought Imperitrtisa Mariya, at harbor in Sevastopol. The lead dreadnought of her class, Empress Maria had been launched in 1913, and played a role in the Black Sea Fleet during the first two years of the war.

On October 20 an engineer discovered an internal fire in one of the ammunition magazines, probably caused by decomposing nitrogen. Thinking quickly, he flooded the magazine, preventing an even more calamitous disaster, but several explosions breached the ship’s waterline and caused it to capsize after forty minutes. Two hundred and twenty-eight sailors went down with her. In 1918 the hull was salvaged, but the Russian Civil War prevented any further repairs, although her 130mm main guns were removed for battle on land.

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Models on bicycles in Central Park, New York City, a fashion photo by Hermann Landshoff, 1946

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Hungarian refugees, Vancouver, December 6, 1956

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25 incredible hand-tinted photos of Victorian girls can make you feel better than color snapshots today.

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Snowy San Bernardino mountains, 1951

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These twins toddlers on a Russian street are so well protected against the cold that they look like penguins, 1968.

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This drawing was made 700 years ago by a 7-years-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novogrod.

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The Throne Room at the heart of the Bronze Age palace of Knossos, considered the oldest throne room in Europe. Crete, 15th century BC

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A combat engineer listens to German movement near Verdun, 1915.

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Artistic reconstructions of Mesopotamia

Babylon

Gate of Ishtar, Babylon

Eridu processional boat of God Enki

Eridu

Mari from above

Palace of Mari

Ur from above

Ur harbor

Uruk, procession at Inanna temple

Uruk from above

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Santos-Dumont attempting to win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize. Winner had to fly from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back in less than 30 minutes 13 July 1901 using the No.5 airship

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