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Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)

Saguaro cacti dot the Sonoran Desert landscape at Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Formerly Saguaro National Monument cactus

Can You Drink Water from a Cactus?

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Happy, smiling, flying pig

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

Eye. Eyelash. Eyeball. Vision.

7 Vestigial Features of the Human Body

Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

Christmas tree, holiday, pine

How Did the Tradition of Christmas Trees Start?

TB-1

aircraft

Also known as: ANT-4

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design by Tupolev

In Tupolev
…notable Soviet airplanes including the TB-1 (ANT-4), the world’s first all-metal, twin-engine, cantilever-wing bomber and one of the largest planes built in the 1920s. Two Tupolev aircraft from the early 1930s, the giant, eight-engine ANT-20 airliner (Maksim Gorky) and the ANT-25 bomber, set world records for size and long-distance flights,…
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