Meet Whang-od Oggay a 103 year old tattoo artist from the Philippines. She is the only remaining traditional Kalinga tattooist. You don’t take a tattoo choice to this woman. She first decides if you’re worthy and then she tattoos what she wants.

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🔥 A Pink Robin.

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🔥 A sleepy fox in the woods of Vosges, France.

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Janis Joplin at Woodstock, 1969.

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This 1,800-year-old portrait of a mother and her two children, painted on a gilded glass medallion in Alexandria, Roman Egypt.

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Really down bad at this point

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Nzambi Matee, the founder of Gjenge Makers based in Nairobi, said that the bricks she has made can be thrown against a wall and do not crack!

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Mountain Chief recording Blackfoot songs for the Smithsonian, 1916.

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Adolf Hitler was so embarrassed by this photo of himself in lederhosen that he had the picture banned, calling it beneath my dignity. Originally taken in the 1930s, this image only resurfaced after an Allied soldier found it in a German house in 1945.⁠

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This is a 2,000-year-old Egyptian floor mosaic depicting a dog and a knocked-over gold vessel, which typically held wine or water.

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A 1,400-Year-Old Chinese Ginkgo Tree that drops leaves leaving a Buddhist Temple in a yellow ocean.

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Salvador Dali walking his anteater through Paris, 1969.

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🔥 A Mexican sinkhole turned into a natural pool

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Adventures in Zhejiang, China.

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This 130,000-year-old skull of a Neanderthal that's been encased in stalagmites in an Italian cave.

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🔥 Asakura-shi, Japan!

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🔥 The aptly-named Blue Dragon River of Portugal.

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Smoky was a Yorkshire Terrier that served in World War 2 and is credited with 12 combat missions and surviving 150 air raids and a typhoon in Okinawa. She even saved her owner's (Corporal William A. Wynne of Cleveland, Ohio) life by warning him of incoming artillery shells and guiding him to safety.

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🔥 An arctic fox in Svalbard. This fella is mid-shed, losing his now scraggly white winter coat for something a little more lowkey.

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🔥 Norway!

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I have yet to start my work.

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Here is Hvaldimir, the white whale and the fisherman Joar who released him from the harness.

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🔥 Enchanting spots of Positano, Italy!

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Sometimes all you need is a hug!

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In 1977, a Chinese woman with no medical degree anonymously found a cure for malaria. 38 years later she was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine.

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Say it, just say it!

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Jack Johnson became the first Black man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908. He held onto the belt until 1915. For more than 13 years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious Black man on Earth.

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This image was taken in 1932 of an unknown man holding a troubling sign. As its name suggests, the Great Depression led to widespread depression on the individual level. Many people were without a source of income, which led to mass distress throughout the nation.

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🔥 Colorful flowery carpet in Netherlands!

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🔥 This cross fox!

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German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower, 1939.

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A 14-year-old girl has raised $14,000 for senior dogs who have been left behind with the goal of helping them find a forever home like she did when she was adopted.

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Petra, one of the 7 Wonders of the World.

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A happy quokka from Western Australia!

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In Turkey, people with reduced mobility can access this beach and the sea thanks to a special access reserved for them. A great initiative that we would like to see around the world!⁠

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US soldier with pictures of his girlfriend attached to his helmet, Cu Chi base camp, Vietnam in 1968.

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🔥 Jarvnpaa, Finland!

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Gene Simmons with his mother backstage in 1977

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Anti-Vietnam War protest in Harlem, 1967.

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Japan, 1940’s full body tattoo.

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The way these Bull elks are symmetrically crossing their antlers.

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A cuirass (a breastplate body armor) belonging to a French soldier who was part of the cavalry during the Battle of Waterloo.⁣

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Long before the days of Internet trolling, the Victorians had vinegar valentines. These rude little cards were mailed anonymously and often mocked recipients for a range of perceived faults.⁠

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The first known person with Alzheimer's Disease, Auguste Deter, at a mental hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, 1901.

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Professional violinist Dagmar Turner plays her instrument as surgeons remove a tumour from her brain. Surgeons asked Turner to play the violin to ensure that her musical abilities were not damaged during the procedure.

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Artist Norman Rockwell and Colonel Harland Sanders pose for a picture in 1973. Rockwell painted the Colonel's portrait around this time.

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🔥 Yellow penguin! The penguin’s strange coloring is due to a condition called leucism, which results in a loss of pigmentation.

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[Image] these always come in handy when you lose hope, you’re all doing amazing!

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Principal Fixes Insecure Student's Haircut To Get Him Back To Class

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Meet the Mola mola, the gentle giant of the ocean that's simply too big for life in captivity. When the Monterey Bay Aquarium tried to raise one, it grew to be 800 pounds in just 14 months and they found they just didn't have enough room to properly house it.

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What a pre-PowerPoint presentation looked like at NASA in 1961.

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Amazigh Moroccan boy, taken by Elias Adray Catrillo

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