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This mirror portrait was taken 110 years ago in Japan.

In 1971, the Soyuz 11 space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan. When rescuers opened the hatch, all three cosmonauts were dead. A valve had opened 104 miles above Earth, exposing them to the vacuum. They remain the only humans to die in outer space.

Helen, an American Indian telephone and switchboard operator, Montana, 1925.

After she was publicly flogged and her daughters raped by Roman soldiers, Queen Boudica of the Iceni destroyed 3 entire cities. Londinium burned with such ferocity that a blackened scorch-layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon

Classic Veracruz culture in Mexico: A ceramic sculpture dating to 400 to 800 AD

Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

Laika, the first living animal to orbit Earth inside the Soviet Sputnik 2 capsule on November 3, 1957, No provisions were made for her return, and she passed away in space within hours of launch from overheating and panic

A 2,300 kg iron meteorite was found carefully wrapped in linen and buried alongside human remains in an ancient temple in Casas Grandes, an archaeological site in northern Mexico attributed to the Mogollon culture. National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Boy uses his dog to speed thru the streets, London, England, 1930s

Mt. Rushmore before and after it was carved. (1920s and nowadays).