The Space Shuttle riding atop NASA's modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, while the Concorde slices across the sky in the background. At Washington Dulles International Airport in 1986
A trepanned neolithic skull of a woman that had a prosthetic ear made from seashell attached, found at Roque d'Aille in France and dates from 3000-2000 BCE. The skull shows evidence the woman had survived the "open brain" operation and gone on to live for many years