"Lab grown diamonds, before they are cut and polished"
"An 11th century Viking well under a local shop in Dublin"
"On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy"
"My barbershop still uses their original cash register from 1904."
"The tomb of Qasr Al-Farid in a remote part of the Saudi Arabian desert dates from the 1st Century AD and was built by the Nabataean Kingdom, who also built Petra in Jordan. It remains largely unvisited"
"Artists once turned stone into silk"
"This oak tree was struck by lightning and split into three"
"In India there is a tribe who learned to make living bridges out of ficus tree roots. They take 15-30 years to make, some are over 500 years old and 15-250 feet over rivers and gorges. Unlike normal bridges they grow stronger over time"
"Saturn's moon, Mimas, looks identical to the Death Star. This is pure coincidence as Star Wars released in 1977, while the first high quality image of Mimas was taken in 1980."
"Computer graphics in 1998 compared to 2018."
"The German Government recently announced its own Version of the US SPACE Force. This Picture is from the Opening Ceremony."
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