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Armor of an Officer of the Imperial Palace Guard, China 18th century
Wait one. I think I've got one of those in our hall closet. Let me go check. 
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Well as long as it not an army of them, we can all sleep snugly in our beds...
(PS They do look like my Jim-Jams!)
Pass the bottle...
(PS They do look like my Jim-Jams!)
Pass the bottle...
Ching Chong Ding Dong
I thought that too, jim jams for sure.Well as long as it not an army of them, we can all sleep snugly in our beds...
(PS They do look like my Jim-Jams!)
Pass the bottle...
I wonder if it's got chainmail or other armoured padding underneath?
A hydropowered scoopwheel used by the ancient Romans at the Rio Tinto mines in Spain.
To remove water from deep underground mines, the Romans used no less than 16 wheels working in pairs and stacked above one another.
The wheels could lift water from 80 meters below the surface.
To remove water from deep underground mines, the Romans used no less than 16 wheels working in pairs and stacked above one another.
The wheels could lift water from 80 meters below the surface.
Interesting stuff indeed. I think Riotinto is still a copper mine today.A hydropowered scoopwheel used by the ancient Romans at the Rio Tinto mines in Spain.
To remove water from deep underground mines, the Romans used no less than 16 wheels working in pairs and stacked above one another.
The wheels could lift water from 80 meters below the surface.
Didn't think this was still possible!
Amazed that the turret could rotate at all and the speed with which it moved was...intimidating.
Yeah I had assumed after sitting for so long that they'd be frozen in place. Now we just need to see them firing again! 
That's a museum in Los Angeles.
I've visited a few battleships and that's the cleanest I've seen.
I've visited a few battleships and that's the cleanest I've seen.
On the set of "A Bridge Too Far", two Scotsmen, Sean Connery and General Urquhart.
That's what she said.
Children on a camel ride at Moscow zoo (1924)
Sgt. Norwood Dorman, of the 36th Field Artillery Regiment, stops to rest at an Italian World War I memorial in Brolo, Sicily. 14 August, 1943
It was a time of great dreams...
1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived together in Vienna
Stalin Hitler Franz Josef Freud Trotsky & Tito walked the same streets in Vienna 1913. The emigres drank in the same cafes & would have seen the Kaiser driven thru the streets.
But only Stalin & Trotsky met & hated each other.
Stalin Hitler Franz Josef Freud Trotsky & Tito walked the same streets in Vienna 1913. The emigres drank in the same cafes & would have seen the Kaiser driven thru the streets.
But only Stalin & Trotsky met & hated each other.