At the bottom is a picture of the same patient, 30 years later. He managed to outlive his doctor. Dr. Religa was a pioneer of heart transplantation in Poland, and even though the surgery was considered borderline impossible at the time, he took the chance, and the operation was successful.

Classes were taught in forests so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight

He had made a bet with a fellow drinker that he could leave the bar, go to New Jersey, and then get back in 15 minutes. He did nearly the exact same thing two years later, after a bar patron refused to believe he had done the first one.

Many of these people were born in the 1700s and some of them even lived through the American Revolutionary War

In houses with only one room, the box bed allowed a certain intimacy and helped to keep warm during the winter

Ta moko is the name for the permanent body and face marking by Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.

Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980. The volcano, located in southwestern Washington, used to be a beautiful symmetrical cone about 9,600 feet (3,000 meters) above sea level. The eruption, which removed the upper 1,300 feet (396 meters) of the summit, left a horseshoe-shaped crater and a barren wasteland

It was located at the Hood river junction on the Columbia river at the Washington/Oregon border

The youngest was 88 years old, and the oldest claimed to be 112 years old. They all became good friends

The ship is best known for grounding in 1910, which left the ship sticking completely out of the water. This is one of the most famous shipwreck photographs

He has a single horsepower air-cooled engine strapped to his back and holds a clutch, accelerator and engine cut-off switch in his hand. (Photo by F. Roy Kemp)

Women in that era were often expected to grow their hair to great lengths, and it was common knowledge that a woman’s crowning glory was her hair. Take a look at these photos of Victorian women who never cut their hair (1860-1900)

It is the largest meteorite to be discovered in North America and the sixth largest in the world. The meteorite is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City

which he caught at Catalina Island, California, 1903. (Caption by Library of Congress. Since then, even bigger specimen have been caught)

He was crossing Fifth Avenue and forgot that cars drove on the opposite side of the road from England, and failed to look to his left.

During this period it was refueled over 128 times by the pictured truck. The pilots: Robert Timm and John Cook from La Vegas. (1958)