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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsylvania was the first all electronic computer. It was also massive: it consisted of 17,500 vacuum tubes and 500,000 different connections (that’s a lot of solder). All in all, it weighed a whopping 30 tons. Less than a century
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For the 1934 Italian “elections” this striking facade was draped over the local headquarters of the Facist Party Federation in Rome. The message is clear: SI SI SI… (YES YES YES…). Instead of voting for one of a selection of different candidates, on these ballots there was only a single candidate handpicked by Benito Mussolini for each position, and Italians could either choose “Yes” or “No’.
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This is a photo of a photo left on the surface of the moon in 1972. Lunar module pilot and astronaut Charles Duke left this portrait of himself and his family on the lunar surface after disembarking from the module during the Apollo 16 mission.
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This jaw dropping photograph was taken by the Egyptologist Harry Burton in 1923. It shows the door to one of the four shrines in King Tuankhamun’s tomb as Burton and his team found it—held shut by ropes that had been tied centuries previously, and a necropolis seal that depicts slaves kneeling before Annubis, the Jackal headed god of the dead.