"Practising for the End of the World," Photo by Hans-Jürgen Burkard, USSR, 1989.
u/HaHalolll0 — 22 days ago
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September 16, 1960 Soviet Union launched an R-2A geophysical rocket carrying biological specimens. The primary objectives of the flight were to study the ionosphere and conduct meteorological observations. The dogs Palma and Malek were aboard the rocket's nose cone
u/HaHalolll0 — 22 days ago
Prehistoric Puppet from the Czech Republic, c.24,000 BCE: this figurine was carved from mammoth ivory, and it was equipped with articulated limbs, making it the world's oldest known puppet
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 24 days ago
19-year old Mathias Rust standing against his Cessna 172 resting on the Red Square after landing, 1987. He flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, being tracked several times by Soviet Air Defence Forces and civilian air traffic controllers, as well as Soviet Air Force interceptor aircraft
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 24 days ago
Japanese telephone operators in Tokyo using the new View Phone, made by Toshiba Shibaura Electric Co, with which they can see the caller, and the caller can see them. 1964
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 23 days ago
Cockington Village in Devon is a remarkably preserved slice of old-world England that traces its origins back long before the Norman Conquest. For over 250 years starting in the 17th century, the village was owned by the Cary family, who shaped much of its estate, grounds, and picturesque
u/HaHalolll0 — 26 days ago
The bells for the University of Chicago's chapel leaving the foundry in England where they were manufactured (1932).
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 29 days ago
This ceiling was designed as a vision of the universe above a king’s throne, Completed in 1427, the gilded wooden dome crowns the Hall of Ambassadors at Seville’s Real Alcázar. Its intricate Mudéjar geometry reflects the meeting of Islamic craftsmanship and Christian royal architecture
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 1 month ago
A young girl wearing an early cuirass ventilator, with therapy animals 1956
u/HaHalolll0 — 1 month ago
In the late 1200s, people of the Mogollon culture made the caves above Cliff Dweller Creek, in New Mexico, their home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for 1 or 2 generations. By 1300, the Mogollon had moved on, leaving the walls behind
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 1 month ago
Minoan pithoi (large terracotta storage containers) excavated from the Palace of Minos in Crete, Greece. 1450-1375 BCE
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 2 months ago
Canadian firefighters seal an oil well in Kuwait after Iraqi sabotage during the Gulf War, 1991.
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 2 months ago
Peach-shaped tourmaline snuff bottle, Qing dynasty (1730–1830), private collection [3200x3200]
u/EyeEmpty7485 — 2 months ago
US cavalry soldiers pose in front of a tree known as the "Grizzly Giant" 1900. The tree still stands.
u/HaHalolll0 — 2 months ago
Magnificent stone sculptured 'umbrella' at Bhoga Nandeeshwara Temple in India, it was built in the 9th century, Though the original Bhoga Nandeeshwara Temple dedicated to Shiva and Parvati was built in the 9th century by the Banas, the Chola kings in the 11th century added the roof
u/HaHalolll0 — 2 months ago
A massive granary pot, from the Paracas culture (800-100 BCE), measuring 2.8 meters tall and 2 meters wide, discovered in 1966 in Monte Fértil, Peru. It's one of the largest pre-Hispanic storage vessels ever found in the region
u/HaHalolll0 — 2 months ago
Indonesian cave art is the oldest known figurative art and visual storytelling, dating back at least 51,200 years[1200x675]
Guinness World Records
Oldest painting – figurative art
Who
Leang Karampuang pig and humans cave art
What
51,200 year(s)
Where
Indonesia (Maros-Pangkep)
When
03 July 2024
2024, a paper published in Nature described a ceiling panel found in the Leang Karampuang limestone cave in the Maros-Pangkep region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, in 2017. The composition in red pigment depicts a pig-like animal (suid) – most likely thought to represent the extant Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis) – interacting with a group of at least three human figures (two holding stick-like objects), possibly depicting a hunting scene. A new method of dating, known as laser-ablation U-series imaging, assessed that the art was created a minimum of c. 53,500 years ago, give or take 2,300 years (hence the youngest possible minimum age of 51,200 years).
u/HaHalolll0 — 2 months ago
Rusted cans from the 1854 Royal Navy search expedition led by Edward Belcher in search for Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition; they are still on the grounds of Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic
u/HaHalolll0 — 2 months ago
Sandals of Tutankhamun ,reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC
u/HaHalolll0 — 2 months ago
Mt. Rushmore before and after it was carved. (1920s and nowadays).
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