History

The richest person that has ever walked on this planet was Mansa Musa, or Musa I from Mali. When he was the reigning emperor of Mali, he had a fortune that would be worth about $400 billion today.

U.S. intelligence officials commissioned mockups of Hitler in possible disguises.

A pilot drives an experimental Rolls Royce machine known as the “Flying Bedstead.”

Artist Chungkong from the Netherlands specializes in recreating movie posters into a minimalistic style. Here are some of the best designs from his collection that gives true meaning to the phrase “less is more”.

Champion watermelon eater at 4th of July celebration, Brooklyn, 1935.

In 2012, in the north-west of Peru, a tomb was discovered during excavations by a Polish archeological group. The burial relating to the Indian culture of Wari (later the Empire of the Incas), was a real find for scientists because it was not looted.

Die Hard.

My grandfather was pretty rich from real estate in the coastal province of Zhejiang in China until the Japanese invaded. He and his family relocated to the inland wartime capital and worked as a telegraph operator for the war.

Thanks to the technology of the researchers at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, people can transform photos into 15th-century classical portraits.

I feel truly blessed that I got to exist on this Earth with Betty White at the same time.

There’s nothing wrong with taking a nostalgic journey on a Monday. If you don’t have a smile on your face by the time the gallery is over then you probably didn’t grow up in this era…

It's not clear who first invented microscopes, but they emerged around the 1590s with few of the bells and whistles they have today.

“My dad, 80s fighter pilot”

Me and my Grandmother on our trip to the Holy Land, (1977)

From shooting lawn darts at each other to riding backwards in the station wagon, this is all the fun stuff that’s considered dangerous now.

In 1955 Dodge introduced La Femme a car designed by men, for women...

In 1989 Michael Galinsky was a Religious Studies major at NYU. He took a photography class and started taking pictures at a local mall for an assignment because he was also interested in anthropology.

Awesome photos that capture the nostalgia of the past.