List of oldest surviving ships en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
The Barbados 'Screw Dock'. Mechanical ship lift / dry dock. The oldest 'surviving' shiplift in the world. Quite a piece of engineering. [3264 x 1836] [OC]
List of oldest surviving professional wrestlers (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
The Barbados 'Screw Dock'. Mechanical ship lift / dry dock. The oldest 'surviving' shiplift in the world. Quite a piece of engineering imgur.com/a/GxLY4
List of oldest surviving professional wrestlers (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
The Barbados 'Screw Dock'. Mechanical ship lift / dry dock. The oldest 'surviving' shiplift in the world. Quite a piece of engineering; I've never seen a design like this. [3264 x 1836]
List of the oldest known surviving free-standing buildings, before and including the Colosseum of Rome in 70–80 CE. The oldest three are in France and date from 4850–4500 BCE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
Worlds oldest surviving clipper ship "The City Of Adelaide" (built 1864) Irvine, Scotland (Now moved to Australia)(800x534) imgur.com/aYQ986n
The Oldest Surviving Los Angeles Restaurants… A Master List of the Vintage, Historic and Old School thelosangelesbeat.com/201…
Re-launch of the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, the world's oldest surviving merchant vessel, July 21, 2013, Mystic, Connecticut. [1765×1223]
List of oldest surviving professional wrestlers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
World's oldest surviving clipper ship, City of Adelaide, finally on her way home maritimematters.com/2013/…
TIL there is a $325 book that lists the oldest surviving copies of Latin literature and where they can be physically found now. Most of the famous works like Caesar's Gallic Wars, can't be traced from any document earlier than AD 800 and barely survived extinction. amazon.com/Texts-Transmis…
Trying to locate the oldest surviving former slave ship for research purposes
Does anyone know if there were old slave ships that survived into 1890s? I realize that their slave days would have been long over, but I need to find a ship that wasn't lost or destroyed prior to that date. Any details you could provide would be greatly appreciated-- even if the ship changed hands, was renamed, and went into service for another industry!
Mary & Eliza Freeman Houses, built in 1848 in Bridgeport, the two oldest surviving homes built by free black Americans, before the abolition of slavery
The oldest verified surviving Papal letter is the “First Epistle of Clement”. It was written around 70AD or 96AD by Pope Clement I and was addressed to the Christians in the Greek city of Corinth. It is also one of the oldest existing Christian documents outside of the New Testament. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir…
TIL: The oldest surviving book in the world is made of gold and was found by someone digging a trench for a canal only 70 years ago in Bulgaria wiganlanebooks.co.uk/blog…
The oldest commissioned ship and the worlds last surviving 1st rate, the HMS Victory at Trafalgar in 1806. [1271x952] imgur.com/DjmWv
[3264x1836] The Barbados 'Screw Dock'. Mechanical ship lift / dry dock. The oldest 'surviving' ship... /r/AbandonedPorn
The 'Old Gentleman of Raahe' - one of the oldest surviving diving suits in the world, made in the early 18th century. In Raahe Museum, Oulu, Finland reddit.com/gallery/lxx0fg
TIL that Thomas Edison produced a film called Fred Ott’s Sneeze, a 5 second film where Fred Ott, one of Edison’s assistants, sneezes. It is the oldest surviving film with a copyright. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fre…
Three men were onboard a ship playing dice on deck when the oldest man angrily jumped off the front of the boat. The younger man said..
You keeled my father. Prepare two die.
*I sent this to my brother and he replies: Was his name Inyougo?
^(What a freaking professional)
The Baha'i temple in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, IL. It combines traditional Persian architecture with modern Western design. Completed in the 1940s, it's the oldest surviving Baha'i temple in the world.
Iowa, one of the oldest ships in the game, still nasty and incredible fun reddit.com/gallery/qywj9a
Example of jokes found in "Philogelos", the oldest surviving joke book from the roman empire
View of Boston, the oldest surviving aerial photograph ever taken. October 13th, 1860
The Turin Papyrus Map (1150 BC), oldest surviving topological map in the world. It shows locations of precious mineral mines in Ancient Egypt [750 × 587]
TIL The Epic of Gilgamesh is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature and the second oldest religious text. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi…
USS Texas (BB-35) - The oldest surviving
dreadnought. Commissioned in 1914, she now
resides as a museum ship at San Jacinto State
Park, and was the first "Battleship Museum" in the
United States. imgur.com/UMMH7
Oldest surviving buildings of Timurid Empire (14th century) imgur.com/a/hpA7QPc
View of Boston, the oldest surviving aerial photograph ever taken. October 13th, 1860
One of the most intact surviving Roman structures and the oldest lighthouse in the world, the ancient Tower of Hercules.
A fight scene between shape-shifting beings in Lotte Reiniger’s 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed' (1926). The oldest surviving animated feature film.
What the HELL is The Sinking of the Lusitania? (Behold, the oldest known surviving animated documentary! Released in 1918, this propaganda short about the tragic sinking that killed nearly 1200 people took almost two years to make and, at twelve minutes, was the longest cartoon at the time.) youtube.com/watch?v=D5oft…
Altar of Fire (1976) - This film records a 12-day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual. [00:45:03] youtu.be/Q37pwnxV7dk
Grave of Timothy Stanly. Dated 1648, the oldest surviving tombstone in the Ancient Hartford burying ground.
Possibly one of the oldest surviving iconographic image of Shiva
TIL that Henry Allingham, one of the last surviving veterans of WWI and one-time oldest man on earth, was called away from eating lunch to design the key countermeasure to Nazi magnetic mines - he did this in only 9 days. He attributed his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen…
TIL The oldest surviving monument to the American Civil War is inscribed in German. It commemorates the men of the 32nd Indiana volunteers, also known as the "1st German regiment", who gave their lives for the Union in 1861. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32n…
TIL The First sporting event ever filmed was in 1894 James "Gentlemen Jim" Corbett fought Peter Courtney in 6 one-minute rounds at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. This small piece of Round 1 is all that remains and is the oldest surviving footage of a sport being filmed. youtube.com/watch?v=fk8Rd…
TIL that the parliament of Iceland, the Althing, is the oldest surviving parliament in the world, having been founded in 930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt…
