The Royal Salt Mine of Wieliczka near Krakow, Poland. The rock salt deposits of Wieliczka and Bochnia have been mined since the 13th century AD. This large industrial enterprise has royal status and is the oldest of its kind in Europe. It is currently a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
the olive tree of Vouves; Crete.
According to a nearby cemetery, this olive tree with a trunk diameter of 15 feet may be 2900 years old.
The tree may have experienced the writing of the Iliad, the Golden Age of Athens, the rise of the Roman Empire, and the birth of Christ. It still produces olives.
Prehistoric Harry Rock, located on the stunning Jurassic Coast, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Dorset, England.
Amphoriskos, called the Blue Vase (Cameo Glass depiction, "Eros harvests grapes"), comes from Pompeii, in the first century AD.
Metropolitan Museum
Lotus swallow, details of spring fresco. 17th century BC.
Pompeii, Greece: Akrotiri of Thera. in Santorini
Aphrodite Anadiaomene. Greece, Hellenistic period 3rd-1st centuries BC.
Vesna Vulović is the only survivor of the 10,000-meter air disaster. On January 26, 1972, Yugoslavia Flight 367, which she was serving, was detonated and disintegrated by terrorists, and after a 27-day coma after a free-fall at an altitude of 10160 meters without a parachute, she miraculously survived... After a full recovery, she returned to work.
In 2016, Vesna died at the age of 66 from a "survivor's guilt" illness.
Afternoon tea at 93-year-old Chinese painter Qi Baishi, Beijing, 1957.
Qi was one of the most beloved and recognizable Chinese artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, and his work is now among the most expensive in auction history.
Al Herpin (January 1, 1862 [note 1] in Paris - January 3, 1947) was an American known as "the man who never sleeps."
He claimed that he had stopped sleeping since the birth of his first child at the age of 21, and that his mental and physical condition was fine, and after observation by the medical community, scientific and the press, he finally fell asleep peacefully in 1947 at the age of 85.