This was the menu served to the third-class passengers aboard the Titanic on the day the ship sank:
This is a statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, that was found inside the pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb:
And here's what the statue looks like today:
This photo from a Seattle lumberyard in 1919 show just how high stacks of lumber could go in those days:
Speaking of lumber, one of the more creative ways bootleggers would hide alcohol during Prohibition was inside trucks lined with wood, complete with a tiny trapdoor:
These are the contestants in the 1930 Miss Lovely Eyes beauty pageant, a contest where woman had to wear an absolutely terrifying mask so that only her eyes were visible:
The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in US history, resulting in the deaths of over 3,000 people. In the aftermath of the disaster, you could literally see where the Earth split along the San Andreas Fault:
Here's another picture of a San Francisco street split in two:
This behemoth is the world's largest telescope, the FAST telescope located in China:
In 2010, 30 intact champagne bottles were found inside a ship that had sunk in the Baltic Sea more than two centuries before, around 1780:
This is what the "back" of the Hoover Dam looked like prior to being flooded with water:
And this is what that same side looks like today:
This is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in the early 1980s:
A fruit named Hala looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.
A perfect bridge that looks like a red romantic moon thanks to the reflection
“Chocolate nobody opened for 2 years”
“Me and my bf have the same mole on opposite hands.”
The snow that gracefully slips off the car like a blanket
Conjoined cherry tomatoes.
“This moth in my garden.”
The beautiful and structured way these trees lined up
A perfectly round natural stone at the beach
“Some of my hair after chemo grew back black, in the opposite direction, and is a different texture.”
A rock tower balanced on little rocks that creates the illusion of a stairway
This paint was never factory mixed, and now we can see all the colors it needs to be created.
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It's for cleaning under your fingernails.
Minimum wage for the period, just for a little perspective:
February 1, 1968 $1.65
August 30, 1964 $1.30
August 30, 1963 $1.25
November 15, 1957 $1.00
People are continually talking about taking away funding and outright closing libraries, so I would guess that they want people to understand the actual benefit (not that it will sink in till they're gone)...
they track everything you read and research as well.
Much as your credit card company and bank track every place you go and everything you buy.
We all saw that but he lived another 5 years, dying at about 137 years old
he's still alive in that picture
A plume moth. Very pretty!