Sergei Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut who was in space during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, as a result, was effectively stranded in orbit for over 300 days, twice as long as planned.
u/SwiPerHaHa — 3 days ago
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US cavalry soldiers pose in front of a tree known as the "Grizzly Giant" 1900. The tree still stands.
u/HaHalolll0 — 3 days 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 — 3 days ago
10 Megabyte Hard Disk priced $3,495 in 1980 (that’s about $13,000 today)
u/SwiPerHaHa — 4 days 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 — 4 days ago
August 15, 1977 - The Wow! signal : radio signal detected by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States. It was then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 — 4 days ago
A hydropowered scoopwheel used by the ancient Romans at the Rio Tinto mines in Spain. To remove water from deep underground mines, the Romans used no less than 16 wheels working in pairs and stacked above one another. The wheels could lift water from 80 meters below the surface
u/Suspicious-Slip248 — 5 days 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 — 5 days ago
25 years ago on Aug 13, 2001, the experimental Helios Prototype a solar powered, remotely-piloted aircraft developed under NASA's ERAST program reached an altitude of 96,863 feet (29,524 m), achieving a world altitude record for sustained horizontal flight by a winged, propeller-driven aircraft
u/SwiPerHaHa — 6 days ago
Mt. Rushmore before and after it was carved. (1920s and nowadays).
u/HaHalolll0 — 6 days ago
The crew of Endurance (led by Ernest Shackleton) entertaining themselves as the ship is trapped in sea ice for months before sinking in 1915.
u/SwiPerHaHa — 7 days ago
Al-Khazneh (The Treasury), an elaborate rock-cut temple carved into pink sandstone cliffs in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, carved top down by the Nabataeans in the 1st century AD
u/SwiPerHaHa — 7 days ago
In 1978, artist Tehching Hsieh locked himself inside a wooden cage in his New York studio for an entire year without speaking, reading, writing, or listening to the radio (One Year Performance / Cage Piece).
u/HaHalolll0 — 7 days ago
Classic Veracruz culture in Mexico: A ceramic sculpture dating to 400 to 800 AD
u/SwiPerHaHa — 7 days ago
A drunken man in top hat and tails clings to a lamp-post in London, 1934
u/Linkyjinx — 7 days ago
William Anders captured the first "Earth-rise" ever to be seen by humans during the Apollo 8 mission. December, 1968
u/HaHalolll0 — 8 days ago
Using lidar, archaeologists detected nearly 400 monumental earthworks built by the Aquiry people between 600 B.C. and A.D. 850, These geoglyphs likely functioned as ceremonial complexes for the thriving population of Amazon researchers now believe some three million Aquiry once lived there
u/HaHalolll0 — 9 days ago
Moscow, USSR (1964) photographed by Dean Cronger
u/HaHalolll0 — 9 days ago
Flowers in a pot and a white Horse, Bhimbetka Caves, Madhya Pradesh, India. 8000 BCE
u/SwiPerHaHa — 9 days ago
Painted wood carving of peaches of immortality in a red-glazed dish,Housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, this Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) collection features the artifact.[654x469]
Product Name : Painted wood carving of peaches of immortality in a red-glazed dish
Classification : ceramics
era : Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)
size : Dish diameter 14.8 cm
illustrate : A round, open-mouthed dish with a white glaze on the rim and the inner bottom of the foot ring. A silk-wrapped wooden mat holds a peach in place. The lifelike peaches, carved from wood and decorated with painted designs, have red tips that gradually fade to bluish-white. Each peach has a stem and jade-green leaves. It is a fine piece for birthday celebrations and appreciation.
u/Impossible-Bee-5343 — 9 days ago