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The SS Great Eastern (1858) was so enormous it couldn’t be launched normally - engineers had to slide it sideways into the Thames. It remained the largest ship on Earth for 40 years.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 7 days ago
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This doesn't feel safe. Why does an urban driver need a truck this big?

The truck could run over the bicyclist and not even know it.

u/CitizenJosh — 9 days ago
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I found this Victorian dolls jug the other night at an 1850+ landfill site in England

u/Danielfinds — 11 days ago
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The Aqueduct of Segovia, built in the 1st century CE from 20,400 granite blocks without mortar, towers nearly 30 metres high as people pass beneath its 167 massive arches.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 12 days ago
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23 yr-old Hans Zimmer poses with the massive Moog synthesizer originally built by Robert Moog and used by Wendy Carlos for "Switched-On Bach." (Purchased from Chris Franke of Tangerine Dream)

u/onwhatcharges — 16 days ago
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History’s most powerful nuclear weapon, the Hydrogen bomb, known officially as RDS-220 and informally as Tsar Bomba.

u/Safe-Board-5477 — 14 days ago
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Enormous Hungarian swords from the 14th century are currently exhibited at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. The centerpiece, notable for its size, measures an impressive 270 cm (8 feet 10 inches) in length.

u/notyourregularninja — 1 month ago
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Today in 1871 the Royal Albert Hall in London was opened by Queen Victoria. The is the famous iron and glass domed roof being constructed near Manchester, around 1870.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 23 days ago