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Apollo 11 astronauts (L to R) Collins, Aldrin and Armstrong wearing sombreros and ponchos are swarmed by thousands in Mexico City as their motorcade is slowed by the crowd. The 1st stop on a Worldwide Goodwill Tour, they would visit 29 cities in 24 countries over 38 days; Sept 29, 1969
 
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Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years.

It was 4 p.m. on August 10th of 1628, and the Vasa ship had barely left the docks of Stockholm harbor on its maiden voyage. Only 1300m into its voyage, a light gust of wind toppled the ship over on its side. As water flooded through the gun portals of the ship, it sank in the shallow waters of Stockholm harbour and lay there at 32m, forgotten. In 1956, it was found by Anders Franzen, a Swedish marine technician, and amateur naval archaeologist. It was salvaged between 1959-61 and can be found today in the museum that was specially built for it.

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The use of different measuring systems on either side of the vessel caused its mass to be distributed asymmetrically, heavier to port. During construction both Swedish feet and Amsterdam feet were in use by different teams. Archaeologists have found four rulers used by the workmen who built the ship. Two were calibrated in Swedish feet, which had 12 inches, while the other two measured Amsterdam feet, which had 11 inches.
 
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Boy on the left was not vaccinated and has severe smallpox while boy on the right was vaccinated and had mild smallpox. This photograph is from a collection of lantern slides used by Philadelphia physicians to illustrate the risk of not vaccinating. Early 1900s
 
I was born in Queenstown Tasmania and done an apprenticeship at the Mt Lyell Copper Mine.
The mine was established in 1893 and smelted it's own Copper bearing ore.
To facilitate the smelters, the trees surrounding Queenstown were cut down to feed the smelters.
What we might call strip felling today.
In cutting down all the trees, the soil was exposed to extreme erosion courtesy of 2500mm/98" average rain per year.
All the soil was washed away so no trees could regrow. Those that did get a foothold were killed by the acid rain
generated by the toxic fumes spewing out of the furnace chimney stacks
Queenstown was left with what today is called a moonscape.
Before Man arrived, this was the countryside surrounding Queenstown Tasmania

The Miners arrived

Queenstown today
 
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These are knife grinders in France, circa 1902. They worked lying down to save their backs and had dogs sit on their legs for warmth....

They were called ventres jaunes (‘yellow stomachs’ referring to the yellow dust released by the grinding wheel). By laying face down, these yellow stomachs would save their backs from being hunched over all day. Workers were encourage to bring their dogs to not only keep them company but to act as heaters to keep them warm by having the dogs lie on their legs.
(Photo is from the web-site of, French knife maker, Claude Dozorme - ” The Wolf ”).
https://www.dozorme-claude.fr/en/a-knife-story
 
The hell of Serra Pelada gold mines in Brazil through photographs, 1980s

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The hell of Serra Pelada mines in Brazil through photographs, 1980s

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Because they work in mud, the gold diggers were called “mud hogs”.

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Because of the use of mercury in the gold extraction process, large areas around the mine are considered dangerously contaminated.


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During its peak, the Serra Pelada mine employed some 100,000 diggers.
 
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Amon Göth (portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List) was an Austrian SS officer and war criminal. He shot people from the window of his villa if they appeared to be moving too slowly. According to witnesses 'would never start his breakfast without shooting at least one person' [1943]

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His daughter who was born Jennifer Göth to a Nigerian father and an Austrian-German mother, grew up in foster care. At the age of 38, Teege unexpectedly found out about her family history, by picking up a book in a Hamburg library that happened to be her mother Monika Hertwig's biography and where she discovered that Amon Goth was her grandfather, which caused her to plunge into a severe depression. She decided to combat her depression and come to terms with this revelation by writing her book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.

Her book was a success and became a New York Times bestseller. Translations of the book, which was originally published in Teege's native language, German, have been made into Danish, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/26/inenglish/1506423248_083165.html
 
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February 1912. Port Royal, South Carolina. "Children from 8 yrs. old up went to school for half a day, shucked oysters for four hours before school and three hours after on school days, and on Saturday from 4 a.m. to early afternoon. Maggioni Canning Co." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
 
On Friday 27th January 2012 World Heritage Cruises vessel ˜Eagle" pulled 145 Horsehead water club skiers breaking their own record of 114 skiers made on Sun March 28th 2010, the old world record of 100 skiers (in Cairns QLD) had stood for 24 years.
The most ever skiers behind one boat for the required one nautical mile distance.
The event took place on Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania.
 

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