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    1200s Old London Bridge: what do we know?

    It does indeed look like a retouched photo of the model with back and front drawn in. KD: this picture is quite intriguing.. The concrete reinforced arches look more alike the metro tunnels than the initial part of the bridge. Otherwise I don't think they would have withstand unbroken during...
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    19th century: Artificial Rain and Snow

    Here is another interesting document: Operational Defenses through Weather Control in 2030
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    Mud Flood, Dirt Rain, and the story of the Buried Buildings

    What's up with those 19th century photos, sky is usually altered, sometimes in a very funky way:
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    1896 Sutro Baths: treatment plant or swimming pool?

    Might be interesting fact in connection with the "ex power plant" version. New wooden Cliff House had an electric elevator installed: According to this mentioned 1896 book Sutro Baths, heights and Cliff house.
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    19th century: Artificial Rain and Snow

    Not quite exact, but some similarities in the title: Conjectures on the cause of rain, storms, the aurora, & magnetism; with a suggestion for causing rain at will. By G.A. Rowell
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    Ancient Romans built the General Post Office of Dublin

    the whole that area looks a bit "abandoned and rediscovered" on the paintings of Ferdinand Runk: The whole collection is here.
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    Poll | 1871: Chicago Fire Damaged Buildings. What caused these damages?

    interested photographs The page you requested was not found, and we have a fine guess why...
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    Railroad Construction: Light Ties or Strong People?

    Here is the link to the complete photo album in good resolution with a descriptions to each picture. It says that the wood ties were made mostly of larch and pine. Amazing album, but I have no idea why some photos were "photoshopped" ??
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    Iced Over Canals in Greenland

    NASA topographic scan gives some more ideas:
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    Urban Fires of the past vs. Wildfires of today

    We have Pennsylvania, California, now Oxford, UK: May all these cases be connected, what do you think ? Maybe there are other "explosions", I don't know, these 3 just caught my attention from the news recently...
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    Seattle regrading or unearthing? Which one was it?

    Looks like some kind of a cathedral ? May it be the St. James Cathedral, what do you think?
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    Pre-1857 King's fish-boat. What kind of ship is this?

    "This unusual fish-shaped boat belonged to Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, who was forced out of his kingdom into exile by the British in 1856. After the Uprising of 1857, the boat was sunk and this photograph staged to symbolically mark the end of the Nawab’s era." The above narrative...
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    Urban Fires of the past vs. Wildfires of today

    I have identified the car: it is 3rd generation of Toyota 4Runner and it has a glass made lenses.
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    Urban Fires of the past vs. Wildfires of today

    I can't recognize the car brand/model...but the design seems to be quite modern to have the headlight lenses made of glass.
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    SPQR this & SPQx that. Empires were everywhere.

    I have just visited the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini to take a look : The area I pointed in red was severely damaged, stains of dark paint are visible (blue arrows). It might not be the map at all.. The fragments in yellow (Pandolfo Malatesta, San Sigismonda, dogs, castle) are 100% painted...
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    San Francisco: 1906 vs. 1907, 1908 and 1909

    They still do have those middle-rail trams going :)
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    Urban Fires of the past vs. Wildfires of today

    Under what conditions do you think the plastic headlight lenses can stay intact and windshild glasses and alloy wheels got melted down as seen on the photos?
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    1900-1915 HD quality photos of the United States cities. Is that normal?

    I wonder what powered those type of carriages on th 2nd photo (electricity?):
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    1861-74: California State Capitol - construction or not?

    it depends on who do you think native Americans were...
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    1854-59 ship: SS Great Eastern a.k.a. Leviathan

    from this 1797 engraving it looks like they have added some kind of winter garden to the main house:
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