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Benitho Talerand

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Cartoon Maker/Comics|Photographe Amateur|One of The first Haitian 🇭🇹on This app .Follow me for historical& amazing pictures •Des photos et vidéos historiques fascinantes du monde entier.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · 12h

Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury photographed together backstage at The Los Angeles Forum on the 8 July 1980.

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In 1919, a tank holding approximately 13,000 tons of molasses burst in Boston. The burst released a 25 foot tall wave of molasses that ripped through a Boston neighborhood at 35 mph (56km), destroying a number of buildings, injuring 150, and killing 21 people.

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A photograph of General High Brady, captured in his 80s during the late 1840s. Born in 1768, when the American colonies were under British rule and King George III reigned, he is among the earliest-born individuals ever photographed.

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Russia’s Great Imperial Crown, 1762

Made for Catherine the Great, with 5,000 diamonds and a giant spinel, it crowned tsars until 1917.

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Michelle and Barack Obama on their wedding day, October 1992

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Salvage crew uncovers $1M treasure from a 1715 Spanish shipwreck lost in a hurricane, coins untouched for 310 years

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · 6d

Victorian era wedding, 1897.

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Silver figurine depicting either a dragon or a tiger, 18th century China.

Written on the back is a the Chinese idiom that literally means "to flaunt military might" and is used to describe someone who is arrogant, boastful, or tries to intimidate others by showing off their strength or authority.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · 7d

A 900-year-old medieval stone church, Glendalough village, Ireland.

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Hillary Clinton listens intently as her husband denies having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, USA, 1998.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · 9d

The Oseberg Ship (c. 820 AD), unearthed in 1904 near Tønsberg, Norway, is one of the most magnificent archaeological discoveries of the Viking Age.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · 9d

A village in Italy that has remained unspoiled since the Middle Ages, dating from the 1300s.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · 9d

Contrary to popular belief, few limb amputations during the American Civil War were done without anesthesia. A post-war review found that 99.6% of surgeries performed were done under some form of general anesthesia.

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Leichester, England in 1950s when coal was main source of energy

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A man standing on the first cables during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1935

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · 10d

On August 7, 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit performed a high-wire act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

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This is a 1916 propaganda map created by the Allies during World War 1, showing what would happen to the United States if the Central Powers won.

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Boxer Muhammad Ali gets distracted by Puerto Rican dancer, singer, and entertainer, Iris Chacón in an exhibition match against local boxer Cholito, Puerto Rico, 1976.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · Apr 28

Coca Cola cans, from 1936.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · Apr 10

U.S. Navy sailors take a break to swim off the side of an aircraft carrier, using torpedo nets as a barrier to keep sharks at bay.

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · Mar 14

Lioconcha hieroglyphica is a species of saltwater clam, it has brown angular markings, often with the appearance of cuneiform characters from ancient scripts, or hieroglyphs

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · Feb 11

John Truden, multiple heavyweight ski championship winner, early 70s.

Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · Feb 4

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Benitho Talerand @benithologie214.bsky.social · Jan 29

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