Castel Sant'Angelo. Rome.

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East German children's computer schools were already equipped with IBM-PCs by 1988.

The IBM-PC in the 1980s had the following specs:

- 5.25-inch floppy drive with 1.2 MB capacity,
- Intel 80286 CPU running at 6 MHz,
- 20 MB hard drive,
- standard RAM of 512 KB,
- Basic programming language,
- EGA-standard monitor and video card (16 colors).

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Exchange rate of the ruble to other European currencies from a 1907 reference guide.

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The first woman at the wheel. Bertha Benz drives the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Germany, 1886

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Exquisite Ottoman-era birdhouses, resembling miniature palaces and mosques.

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An Indian made wealthy by oil, Oklahoma, 1920s.

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David Rockefeller with a souvenir gifted to him during his visit to the USSR, Moscow, 1973.

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The Vasa warship raised from the seabed after 333 years. Stockholm, Sweden, April 24, 1961

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The tallest wave ever recorded by humans was spotted near Japan's Ishigakai Island in 1971. It reached a staggering 85 meters in height.

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Execution in Japan, 19th century.
Felix Beato.

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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs holding the Apple I computer.

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Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanov (seated on the right side) in an electric car designed by Jean-Jacques Heilman, during a drive through the Bois de Boulogne. 1898.

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The longest prison sentence in history was handed down to Chamaiporn Thipchaso, a Thai national known in her country as the queen of underground business. On July 27, 1989, she and seven accomplices were each sentenced to 141,078 years behind bars for orchestrating multi-million-dollar banking frauds. In total, the single court ruling amounted to a staggering 1,128,624 years in prison.

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Serb soldier armed with a PPSh-41 submachine gun during the Bosnian War. 1992.

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For Lenin’s winter trips to Gorki and hunting excursions, one of his Rolls-Royces was fitted with a caterpillar track system. The development of such vehicles began even before the revolution by Adolf Kegresse, who had served in the tsar’s auto fleet. He had previously adapted Mercedes, Packards, and Russo-Balt vehicles with tracks.

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The largest leaf ever discovered from a dicotyledonous plant (in the Amazon rainforests, South America).

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"3a on board — 58 megatons." The cockpit of the Tu-95V turboprop strategic missile-carrying bomber during the detonation of the 58-megaton thermonuclear aerial bomb «Kuzkina mat», 39 kilometers from ground zero. Site: the Sukhoy Nos nuclear test range, October 30, 1961.

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The staircase at Balamand University in Lebanon

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Albert Einstein, 1920.

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A pack of zebras, 1890s.

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CRITICAL: During the construction of the Great Wall of China in the 3rd century BCE, around 400,000 people died. Among the dead were slaves and soldiers—many of whom were buried within the wall itself. Over the centuries, the structure was repeatedly rebuilt and repaired, and the version we see today was largely restored during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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