01: The Imperial Orb, Sword, and Scabbard of the Holy Roman Empire. The orb was made in Germany around 1200, the scabbard in Italy in the second half of the 11th century, and the sword between 1198 and 1218 in Germany. The gold plates on the scabbard depict kings and emperors from Charlemagne to Henry III.
02: A village in Pakistan where trees are covered in spider webs after a flood attracted all the spiders to higher ground.
03: An Irish fisherman discovered the skull of a giant deer species that went extinct 10,000 years ago. 
04: A very ancient anchor from Tatuí, Brazil, with a heavy stone inside, secured with wood and rope.
05: A painted limestone from ancient Egypt with copper eyes inlaid with crystal, known as “The Squatting Scribe,” made during the 4th or 5th Dynasty, around 2600-2350 BC.
06: A spider from about 100 million years ago, as terrifying as today’s spiders. This piece of amber contains a well-preserved spider eating a juvenile wasp, capturing the moment when both predator and prey were engulfed by tree sap.
07: A creature from Borneo with the peculiar name “Earless Monitor,” which indeed looks like a dragon from mythology!
08: A family portrait from 1905 showing four generations, looking eerily haunting!
09: Two brave Armenian women posing with rifles before fighting against the Ottoman Empire in 1895, not only courageous but also quite beautiful!
10: An elongated skull from Peru with a surgically implanted metal plate, estimated to be from about 2000 years ago. The surrounding fractures have healed and fused, indicating a successful surgery.
11: The rumbling sound of about 50,000 starlings flying in formation, creating a “black sun.”
12: Young men arrested for homosexuality in Mexico in 1935 posing at the police station.
13: Every year, flocks of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to the southern United States.
14: Can you imagine what this is? This is what the skeleton of a freshwater otter looks like.
15: Such symmetrical “flaws” are rare in nature, truly breathtaking!
16: A tree from 1500 in South Africa, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth.
17: A World War II watch that survived with its owner.
18: This ring, made from a sapphire, possibly belonging to the Roman Emperor Caligula, features an engraving of his favorite queen consort, dating back about 2000 years.
19: Easter Island in Chile is famous for these striking Moai statues, known as “heads.” They average 14 tons in weight and are about 4 meters tall, with their purpose still a mystery.
20: A photograph from 1962 of high school students skipping class to see The Beatles, now 60 years later, the rebellious youth have aged.
21: A street that looks like it’s carpeted, quite interesting.
22: In 1940, a sailor who had been at sea for a year finally returns home, imagine the psychological impact on his baby.
23: These Amazonian water lilies are sturdy enough to support two children playing on them.
24: The Punt Gun was a super-large shotgun used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large quantities of waterfowl for commercial fishing operations.
25: A church in Iceland with the Northern Lights in the background.
26: I hope never to encounter a sawfish while swimming!
27: Adèle Mara, born on April 28, 1923, in Michigan, was a beautiful and bold singer and dancer. Sometimes a blonde, sometimes a brunette.
28: In the 1940s in the United States, the “bullet bra” was popular, with various Hollywood actresses adopting the fashion of wearing tight sweaters over bullet-shaped bras, a favorite of stars like Marilyn Monroe, reflecting the women’s fashion style of the time.
29: One of the first photographs taken by Allied soldiers inside Hitler’s bunker (Führerbunker) in 1945.
30: If given the chance, definitely visit Cappadocia in Turkey and take a hot air balloon ride.
31: A poor Atlantic puffin returns to its burrow with a beak full of sand eels, only to be met by a giant seagull mid-way. The seagull steals its food, but luckily the puffin remains unharmed. Nature has no sense of justice, survival of the fittest.
32: At the end of the 19th century, women working in Danish brothels used a cleansing device with a cartoon crank on the side, the mechanism of which is left to the imagination.
33: At a rice mill in Habra, India, people are pulling golden paddy to dry it.
34: A father visiting his child on the battlefield during World War I.
