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Referee Joey Shackelford (height 4'9") gives a warning to Clive Goddard (height 6'9"), England, 1980.
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In 1949, Tomanni, a giant standing 8 feet tall with a shoe size of 22 inches, settled in Gibsonton, Florida. His wife, Jeanie, known as the "Half-Girl" due to her two-foot height, adopted two daughters with her husband. The couple opened a restaurant and trailer park called "Giant's Camp."
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The aftermath of the Northridge earthquake, 1994.
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The watch of Marie Antoinette, which took 40 years to craft, was only completed 30 years after her execution.
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A faience dress that is 4,000 years old. The outfit was created around 2323–2150 BCE. It was sewn from faience cylindrical beads. According to one theory, such dresses were worn daily over linen clothing. Another theory suggests it was a burial garment. The artifact was discovered in a tomb in Giza and is now housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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Americans take down a Nazi flag hanging at the German consulate. San Francisco, 1941.
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Over time, the name of the coin was transferred to the news sheet itself.
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English pirate and navigator Francis Drake became famous for his raids on Spanish colonies in South America, amassing a large amount of gold. However, his crimes were greatly exaggerated. Spanish officials themselves took advantage of the situation, blaming Drake for everything they had stolen from the royal treasury.
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A visual demonstration of bridge construction in 14th-century Prague.
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A KLM stewardess with an AR-10 rifle at shooting practice before polar flights, 1959. The rifle was issued in case of an emergency landing on the ice and the appearance of polar bears.
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A Victorian shoe fitting device. The seller can only see the ankle, he cannot look under the skirt or meet the lady’s gaze.
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Unlike the modern trend of tanning, pre-revolutionary young ladies preferred an “interesting paleness” of the face, which was especially valued at balls. To achieve this, the day before the ball, girls ate almost nothing, tightened their corsets as much as possible, ate chalk, and even drank diluted vinegar.
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Reconstruction of methods for countering attacks with a longsword based on illustrations from a 14th-century fencing manual in Italy.
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Transportation of a drilling rig base. United Kingdom, 1980s.
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Colonel Sanders, the founder of the largest café chain KFC, at work.
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Masutatsu Oyama, the founder of Kyokushin Karate, fighting a bull.
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This happened after his sister, who had dropped out of school, became a lawyer to prove her brother’s innocence. Unfortunately, Kenny Waters died in an accident six months after his release from prison.
A film based on this story, Conviction (2010), was made.
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Women working in British munitions factories, filling artillery shells, were nicknamed "canaries" due to the distinctive yellow tint their skin developed. The trinitrotoluene (TNT) used in the shells caused severe liver damage, making jaundice a common occupational disease among these workers. Approximately 80% of all British weapons and ammunition used in World War I were produced by women.
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The Anti-Gluttony Door in the Monastery of Santa Maria de Alcobaça, Portugal.
Every monk had to carry their food from the kitchen to the dining hall through this door. Those who were too overweight to pass through had to fast, fast, and fast some more.
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A portrait of a young woman from the Kiowa tribe, 19th century, 1894. A rare photograph of a smiling person from that time.
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A woman shows her scars left from the treatment of burns she suffered during the Hiroshima bombing.
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German knightly armor of the 16th century
The work of armorers from Brunswick, Augsburg, Nuremberg.
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A Swedish dollhouse from 1912.
Four stories high, it featured a working elevator powered by a metal clock mechanism, electric lighting in all rooms, a ringing telephone, a miniature typewriter, a sewing machine, and a chandelier. It could accommodate 30 dolls. Created by John Carlsson for his younger sister.
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They were deliberately not given enough food, thus stimulating them to steal it. However, those who were caught faced flogging.
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Tom Torlino, a Navajo Native American, before enrolling in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1882) and after three years of education there. This school was one of several founded by the federal government to assimilate Native American children into "white" culture.
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The patent sketch for toilet paper, created by inventor Seth Wheeler, is dated December 22, 1891.
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Eye paint was typically green (made from copper) or black (made from lead). Egyptians believed that makeup had healing properties. Initially, makeup in Egypt was used as protection against the sun's rays and only secondarily as decoration.
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