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The Altai Mobile Telephone system is the pre-cellular 0G radiotelephone service that was first introduced in the Soviet Union in 1963, and became available in the most large cities by 1965.

Motorola publicly demonstrated the world's first portable cellular Telephone and system on 3 April, 1973.  

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El sistema de telefonía móvil Altai es el servicio de radioteléfono 0G precelular que se introdujo por primera vez en la Unión Soviética en 1963, y que estuvo disponible en las ciudades más grandes en 1965.

Motorola demostró públicamente el primer teléfono y sistema celular portátil del mundo el 3 de abril de 1973.

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An Iraqi soldier burned alive while trying to get out of a flaming truck on the Highway of Death. Kuwait, 1991.

The signature of the author of the photo, Kenneth Jarek: “If I don’t photograph this, people like my mom will think war is what they see on TV.”

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Un soldado iraquí se quemó vivo mientras intentaba salir de un camión en llamas en la Carretera de la Muerte. Kuwait, 1991.

La firma del autor de la foto, Kenneth Jarek: "Si no fotografío esto, personas como mi madre pensarán que la guerra es lo que ven en la televisión".

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Plague Doctor Costume - 17-18th Century. The beak or its tip was filled with strong smelling medicinal herbs, which simplified breathing with a constant plague stench

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Traje de Doctor Plaga - Siglo 17-18. El pico o la punta estaba lleno de hierbas medicinales de fuerte olor, lo que simplificaba la respiración con un hedor constante de peste.

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Peeling a corrupt judge.

Gerard David's painting “The Court of Cambyses” was painted in 1460 especially for the Brugge Town Hall, where court hearings were held.

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Pelar a un juez corrupto.

La pintura de Gerard David "La corte de Cambises" fue pintada en 1460 especialmente para el Ayuntamiento de Brujas, donde se celebraron audiencias en la corte.

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Post-mortem photography was very common in the nineteenth century when "death occurred in the home and was quite an ordinary part of life." As photography was a new medium, it is plausible that "many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young children, were probably the only photographs ever made of the sitters. The long exposure time made deceased subjects easy to photograph.'" (The problem of long exposure times also led to the phenomenon of hidden mother photography, where the mother was hidden in-frame to calm a young child and keep them still.) According to Mary Warner Marien, "post-mortem photography flourished in photography's early decades, among clients who preferred to capture an image of a deceased loved one rather than have no photograph at all."

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 The original Siamese twins really were from Siam. When Chang and Eng Bunker were born in 1811 in a small town near Bangkok, they were medical marvels. The twins had fully formed, completely separate bodies, connected only by a small, four-inch bridge of flesh that ran between their stomachs.

They weren’t the first recorded case of conjoined twins to put themselves up for display, that honor as far as anyone can tell, goes to Mary and Eliza Chuklhurst who lived in 12th century England. But the Bunker brothers were so popular that they coined and made famous the phrase “Siamese twins.”

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