largest ever recorded polar bear, shot in Alaska in 1960 that weighed over 2,200 pounds and stood nearly 12 feet tall, It was later displayed at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 5 hours ago
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An Afghan communist revolutionary dressed in traditional clothing and holding an AK-47, in Kabul in 1984
u/SwiPerHaHa — 8 hours ago
A wooden baby crib from Herculaneum, buried by Mt. Vesuvius. The skeleton of a baby was found inside (OC, Excessive info in comments)
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 13 hours ago
Archaeologists uncovered 59 sealed wooden sarcophagi around 2020, all dating back approximately 2,500 years, the ancient coffins were found remarkably intact within burial shafts in the Saqqara necropolis.
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 24 hours ago
Girl looks out over the ruins of Warsaw, 1945
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 24 hours ago
Sen. Robert Kennedy after being shot in the head during his presidential campaign in Los Angeles, 1968 iconic photograph, taken by Bill Eppridge for LIFE magazine
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 24 hours ago
Julius Caesar: Rise to Power, Battles, Death & Lasting Legacy
mythandmemory.orgu/Warlord1392 — 18 hours ago
Men Carrying Tea Bricks on the Ancient Tea Horse Road in Sichuan China, 1908 by Ernest Henry Wilson
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 1 day ago
This is the Telefontornet - built in 1887 to connect 5500 telephone lines in Stockholm and used until 1913, It became obsolete by then due to the installation of underground cabling but remained as a city landmark until a fire damaged it in 1952
u/AstroG4 — 2 days ago
The boundary between Salt River Indian Reservation and Scottsdale, Az, the rectilinear pattern of the suburban side is a result of the Land Ordinance of 1785, which divided western territories into townships
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 2 days ago
1981 : India Space Agency, ISRO Scientists Carry India's First Communication APPLE Satellite On Bullock Cart, the use of a bullock cart was not for general transport, but to provide a non-magnetic environment for conducting essential antenna characterization tests in an open field
The satellite was successfully launched aboard an Ariane-1 rocket from French Guiana on June 19, 1981
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 2 days ago
July 4, 1776 - United States of America declared Independence! The painting by A.M. Willard called "Yankee Doodle" famously came to be known as "The Spirit of '76", became the symbol of American patriotism
u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 — 1 day ago
The first selfie in space by Buzz Aldrin 1966, Aldrin used a Hasselblad camera to capture this image while performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) during the Gemini 12 mission
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 3 days ago
Why Was the Roman Pilum So Effective? Rome's Deadly Weapon
mythandmemory.orgu/Warlord1392 — 2 days ago
The only one of its kind globally, this Greenlandic whaling suit, made before 1834, is a unique artifact. Hunters used it for waterproofing by crawling through the central opening and sealing it with sealskin. It's now at Denmark's National Museum
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 3 days ago
Kumbhalgarh Fort located in Rajasthan, India was commissioned by Maharana Kumbha in 1443, has world's second longest continuous wall with distance of 36 Km with walls 20-25 feet wide had fend off 4 major conquest campaigns only fell once after Emperor Akbar's army poisoned the freshwater source.
u/Fallen_Angel678 — 3 days ago
World's Oldest Mask: 9,000 year old artifact, This is a limestone mask dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, It was discovered in the Nahal Hemar cave in Israel, near the Dead Sea
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 4 days ago
Long beach California, full of oil towers in 1944. Photo by Andreas Feininger, the area became one of the most densely drilled oil fields globally, transforming the landscape into a sprawling industrial forest
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 4 days ago
The Sword In The Stone, Italy. Saint Galgano 1148-1181 a Catholic Saint from Tuscany was believed to have plunged his sword into the stone after a vision from Archangel Michael. A 2001 analysis shows that the upper piece and invisible lower one are authentic and belong to one and the same artefact
u/Czech_Coconut — 5 days ago
Monument to the Soviet space program in Moscow, Completed in 1964, the 107-meter-tall titanium structure depicts a rocket rising on a plume of smoke
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 4 days ago