This is Norma Smallwood, the winner of the 1926 Miss America pageant:
This is what it looks like 16 stories beneath New York City:
Specifically, this is what it looked like in 2013 during construction of the East Side Access tunnel. The project was completed this year.
There's a bridge specifically for crabs in Christmas Island, Australia. A crab bridge. A cridge:
Millions of these crabs migrate every year, and this bridge keeps 'em safe.
This is what Leonardo da Vinci's “The Last Supper” looks like in person:
This 2,000-year-old Roman shoe looks like it could've been made today:
And this is what the bottom of that shoe just might look like:
This is what the base of a wind turbine looks like before it's filled with concrete:
This picture, taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839, is generally accepted as the first "selfie":
Basically, he probably took the first self-portrait ever. Bob had to sit for 15 minutes to get this picture.
This is how big the Hubble Space Telescope is compared with a few human beings:
This was taken in 1989, when the telescope was being prepared to be shot into space.
This, my friends, is what a perfectly spherical egg looks like:
The "American section" of a German grocery store contains a lot of popcorn, hot sauce, and mustard:
This is what a knife looks like after being sharpened over and over again for 30 years:
This is Ahmet Ali Çelikten, a man who is generally considered to be one of the first Black pilots — and perhaps the very first:
He first flew for the Ottoman Empire in World War I. His contemporaries included Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot from the United States.
Horn sharks have very cool spiral egg cases:
This is what stem cells look like after they've been collected and are ready to be transplanted:
Some towns have specific areas designated for online marketplace meetups:
During World War II, the "Mona Lisa" was packed away and removed from the Louvre to ensure its safety:
Hundreds of thousands of works of art were stolen throughout the war, with many of them lost forever.
This is a Javan rhino, an extremely endangered species of rhino of which there are only about 76 left on Earth:
In actual good news, 10 years ago, there were only 50 Javan rhinos. As you can tell by his smile, my man up there is doing work.
This was the menu aboard the Titanic days before it sank:
• Don't insult other visitors. Offensive comments will be deleted without warning.
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nah just doesn't like to obey the ccp, and will most likely end up in a re education camp
Saalburg Museum, Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany.