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Relic of St. Maximilian Kolbe:Catholic Martyr Killed at Auschwitz’s in place of another man. This is a first-class relic, in the form of hairs from his head and beard, preserved without his knowledge by two friars at Niepolkalanow who served as barbers in his friary between 1930 and 1941.
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Fokker Dr.I with the colors and numeration of Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron. Designed from a captured British Sopwith Triplane, the Dr.I saw widespread service in 1918. It became famous as the aircraft in which the Red Baron gained his last 17 victories, and was killed...
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Discovered in a cave in southern Poland in the 1980s, this prehistoric boomerang was made from a mammoth tusk and estimated to be 18,000 years old. But new analysis has uncovered that the boomerang is between 39,000 to 42,000 years old, making it the oldest known boomerang in history.
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In 1949, artists from Iran and Italy gathered to create the history's first statue of a Persian king made in the West: Nader Shah, known in Europe as the "Napoleon of the East." Six years later, a 14-ton statue arrived from Rome at his tomb in Mashhad, where it greets visitors today.
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