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Most beautiful leg contest held in Paris in 1936

Most beautiful leg contest held in Paris in 1936

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Bottle for Anti-Hysteria Water (1850-1920)

This was from the foundry at Santa Maria Novella, Florence. The water was taken with a cup of coffee with a third of a cup of water and a little sugar. This created an aromatic drink that calms nervous excitation.

Monasteries often produced such simple remedies and cures for general sale. In the 1800s, hysteria was a broad diagnosis applied to women with ‘nervous’ condition

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Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 versus dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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The picture on the left is when the Titanic left the port in 1912 while the picture on the right is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before its sinking. 

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The above are pictures of the ENIAC or the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was initially designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory

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