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Same place, same memory, 58 years later.

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2000-year old Ancient Greek floor mosaic accidentally discovered in Turkey.

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What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: balloon-supported lake-walking.

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Book box from Medieval Italy. Looks like a backpack a kid into heavy metal would bring to school.

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The place where Julius Caesar was murdered is now a sanctuary for cats.

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Same place, same memory, 58 years later.

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2000-year old Ancient Greek floor mosaic accidentally discovered in Turkey.

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A 700-year old house in Iraq, built into the rocks.

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The longest-ever Viking longship was unearthed by accident during renovations of a Danish longship museum.

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Waiters serve steel workers lunch on a girder high above the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1930.

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Sinking Castle in Lake Garda, Italy.

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Medieval cat's paw prints on manuscript (c. 1100s). 900-year old kitty getting in trouble.

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Tsar Nicholas II goofing around with the princes of Greece and Denmark (1899).

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The town of Tikrit in Iraq erected a monument to the shoe thrown at George W. Bush.

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I'll just leave this here.

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Possibly the first customer service complaint ever written.

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The nazis tried to discredit free reporting, calling it "Lügenpresse" (lying press), as a step to expanding state propaganda.

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2000-year old Ancient Greek floor mosaic accidentally discovered in Turkey.

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Grand Staircase in the oldest palace in Europe, dating back 4,000 years (Knossos, from Minoan Crete).

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The Pyramids were older to the Romans than the Romans are to us.

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Possibly the first customer service complaint ever written.

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Same place, same memory, 58 years later.

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3,000 year old dragon axe from Ancient China.

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Today in 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote. Good on ya! http://t.co/zyk9UxMGce

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As a breed, corgies date back over 1,000 years. So this medieval battle scene *could* be accurate.

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When homosexuality was classified as an illness in Sweden, Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay.

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During a 1720 financial crisis, British Parliament debated a resolution for bankers to be sewn in sacks with snakes & dumped in the Thames.

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"Politicians discussing Global Warming" (sculpture in Berlin).

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The classics.

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Hannah Stilley, born 1746 and photographed in 1840, is likely the earliest born person ever captured on film.

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Art through history.

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The Japanese word 'tsundoku' means buying books but never getting around the reading them. #useful http://t.co/KWYzv6M0Xa

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Beware the Ides of March.

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What Orwell failed to predict was that we'd buy the cameras ourselves and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.

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Tribute to 8 million horses who died during the First World War.

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Vikings lived in Greenland for almost 500 years from 980 to around 1450 - only 40 years before Columbus.

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Tribute to 8 million horses who died during the First World War.

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"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed." -Mark Twain

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The Queen trying not to laugh as she passes her husband (Duke of Edinburgh) in uniform.

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All of Gandhi's worldly possessions.

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Beware the Ides of March.

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1947 wedding dress made by the bride from the silk parachute that saved the groom's life during the war.

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My 4-year old nephew told me Donald Duck won the election. I think he might be right.

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Turkish police trying to stop a pride parade with water cannons accidentally created rainbows.

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Rejected designs for the Eiffel Tower.

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"Avocado" comes from the Aztec "ahuacacuahatl", meaning "testicle tree".

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Abandoned Hungarian lake village.

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96 years ago today - US women vote for the first time, in what became one of the largest landslide election victories in history.

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Same place, same memory, 58 years later.

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Dear America, Please don't shoot yourself in the face today. Signed, -Everyone #ElectionDay

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The place where Julius Caesar was murdered is now a sanctuary for cats.

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The oldest 20-sided-die, from ancient Egypt. Conclusion: they played D&D!

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"But I wanted a pony!" Boy and his boar, 1930.

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Turkish police trying to stop a pride parade with water cannons accidentally created rainbows.

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"God created war so that Americans would learn geography." -Mark Twain

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Bullets that collided in midair at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915).

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It seems that Batman was also a hero in Ancient Mesoamerica.

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A 'butt' was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a buttload of wine is about 475 liters (126 gal).

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The 5,500-year-old Sumerian number system was sexagesimal (base 60). We still use it for time, angles, and geographic coordinates.

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Medieval Atlas, 1375. Before latitude/longitude grid lines were invented, but pretty good for the time.

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Ancient Roman children's leather shoes.

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Possibly the first customer service complaint ever written.

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Bullets that collided in midair at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915).

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Roman gladiators used to drink vinegar mixed with ash to recover after a fight.

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Set of Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, each volume having a progressively decayed pillar.

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The only surviving Ancient Greek-style temple in Armenia.

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What Orwell failed to predict was that we'd buy the cameras ourselves and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.

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Tomb carved from a single giant rock almost 2,000 years ago in Arabia.

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Jesse Owens winning gold in Nazi Germany, 1936.

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King Tut's blade from ancient Egypt - made from meteoritic iron at a time before humans learned to forge the metal for ourselves.

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"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed." -Mark Twain

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Abandoned Cold War Soviet submarine base.

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Very early photograph of barricades in the streets of Paris during the French 1848 Revolution.

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It seems that Batman was also a hero in Ancient Mesoamerica.

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Oldest known human face, carved in mammoth ivory over 25,000 yrs ago.

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Coca cola started out as wine with cocaine in it.

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"Civilization began when slavery was abolished." -Mark Twain (with his friend John T. Lewis)

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Be that guy.

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First experience with television in a shop window, 1948.

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Two thousand year old tree, early 20th century California.

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If the British Isles had their literal original names.

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Mercury train in Chicago, 1936 - named after the Roman god and designed for speedy intercity midwest travel.

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Clever way to show what ancient buildings looked like.

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On the 11th hour of the 11th day, 100 years ago today, the guns fell silent. We will never forgot their sacrifice.

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Wine drove glass technology, which led to telescopes and microscopes, and hence the scientific revolution. Cheers!

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"Civilization began when slavery was abolished." -Mark Twain (with his friend John T. Lewis)

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Medieval cat's paw prints on manuscript (c. 1100s). 900-year old kitty getting in trouble.

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Home of the gods - Mount Olympus in Greece.

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Never forget.

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Set of Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, each volume having a progressively decayed pillar.

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Jeans were invented by a German Jewish immigrant (Levi Strauss) for an American market (San Francisco) using a French fabric (denim = "de Nimes", France) and an Italian design (Jeans = "de Genes" = Genoa).

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Great photo of Carrie Fisher smiling with a stormtrooper on set of Empire Strikes Back.

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The only surviving Ancient Greek-style temple in Armenia.

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How the United States evolved.

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The oldest known pair of pants - over 3,000 years old from Egypt.

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Nördlingen is a German town built inside a 14 million year old meteor crater.

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A 700-year old house in Iraq, built into the rocks.

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Cat ring from Ancient Egypt, 2700 years old.

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In Tibet, distances were traditionally measured by the number of cups of tea required for the journey.

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