This Bronze Age petroglyph at Tanum is thought by many to be the oldest depiction of a maypole.
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The Giro Boat, the boat that flies, was one of the craziest ideas from 1961

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This video displays the love and the evil of different kinds of women. Look at this woman who's ready to encourage her husband against all odds, while the camera-lady takes no interest in this photographic moment.

Notice her see this one in a lifetime chance for an amazing picture, only to turn around as if she'd seen nothing..

A flexible double-bladed rapier concealed in a silver ring snake sheath, made during the 19th century in Toledo, Spain
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A lidar survey of farmland in eastern Ireland has detected multiple prehistoric monuments, including Bronze Age structures and five Neolithic cursus monuments, which are long and narrow earthwork enclosures built some 5,500 years ago that farmers may have used for rituals or to mark seasons.

archaeology.org/news/12359-240430-ireland-cursus-monuments

(James O'Driscoll/© Antiquity Publications Ltd.)

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A really informative and inspiring video about the Texan Homestead Heritage community that aims "to be as self-sufficient as possible in as many ways as possible."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVBkciLcZVA

‘Lucky Tread’ bicycle tyres from 1890 on a wooden rim

An inspiring video of a man living off grid who also "has the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LEoW81mUXU

A 600-year-old medieval hat from Lappvattnet. The hat, which is made of felted sheep’s wool, was preserved in a bog. Now housed at the Västerbottens Museum in Sweden.

Rescue training in aerated water. This is extremely tough!

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Homeless woman, 34, found living inside Michigan rooftop grocery store sign where she had set up an office with a desk, computer, printer and coffee maker
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13404433/family-fare-midland-Michigan-homeless-woman-living-roof.html

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If these were real... bring them back

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https://arkaim-center.ru/sites/default/files/3D/index.html

A virtual tour of bronze age Sintashta settlements, including some of the Kurgan burial mounds.

Viking ☀️ Sunstone

"Olaf I Tryggvason was a bold leader of Vikings. He lived from approx. 960-1000AD, becoming King of Norway in 995. He unified much of Norway and Denmark. He had in his possession a magical device, a sunstone, which aided him in his endeavors according to the Sagas of St Olaf.

He like so many Vikings that came after him were able to traverse thousands of miles of open ocean in way that modern science was not able to completely understand. The evidence of their achievements is overwhelming, however the methods they used were shrouded in mystery. Sun-compasses, Shadow Boards, Currents and dead reckoning were all thought to be possibilities. There was a more fantastical option as well, the Magical Viking Sunstone.
Many have thought the myth of the sunstone was just another legend. It was a magical device that allowed the possessor to know the location of the sun, no matter how cloudy the sky was. The stone could also tell where the sun was during twilight". (source)

Viking Sunstone from the Alderney (pictured)

"In conjunction with a shadow board, you could tell which way was north. The Sunstone would be a truly powerful device in a time before magnetic compasses. Doubly valuable to a nation of seafaring warriors sailing vast distances in the often cloud covered North Sea.

Modern Science dismissed such as mere legends, of course. Right up until they discovered one in the shipwreck of the Alderney, an Elizabethian warship that sank in 1592. Although she sailed well beyond the times of the Vikings she did sail in the time before all the vagrancies of magnetic navigation were mastered. The Sunstone was found with the Navigation equipment, & is believed to have been used to correct or back up the magnetic navigation devices.

Although the sands & chemical reactions had clouded the Sunstone, they were able to determine that it was a piece of Icelandic Spar. One of the optical properties of Icelandic Spar is it actually doubles the objects passing through it." (ibid)