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Skull of a crowned athlete with a gold wreath from Agios Nikolaos, Crete. The flesh disintegrated with time, but the wreath stuck and remained on the skull. Hellenistic Period.

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Erika Kornelia Szeles, was a 15-Year-Old Hungarian Resistance member who fought against the Soviets in the 1956 revolution.

During a resistance operation, Erika was mortally wounded in a street fight with Soviet soldiers on November 8th, 1956.

Color by @EmilWallner (https://nitter.moomoo.me/EmilWallner)

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Oldest Austrian soldier of WW1, a 79-year-old Gaspar Wallnöfer, veteran of Habsburg campaigns in Italy in 1848 and 1866, September 1917

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Glazed ceramic sculpture of a bactrian camel with pack saddle. China, Tang dynasty, 700-750 AD

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Elijah Wood with his scale double Kiran Shah on the set of Fellowship of the Ring, 2001

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Queen Isabel II, veiled, 1855 C by Camillo Torreggiani. Masterful use of light and shadows to make it look like real lace.

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