Kumbukumbu za ulimwengu (World Archives)

Kumbukumbu za ulimwengu (World Archives)

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The underground town discovered to be the deepest is said to be 1000 feet deep
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The mummified body of two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, also called "The sleeping beauty.” She died of pneumonia in 1920, and her distraught father had her embalmed. But here is the weirdest thing, In a 2009 National Geographic documentary, they found her eyelids moving and blue eyes shining in the dark. But how is this possible after being mummified for over a hundred years? (Time-lapse footage is here.) bit.ly/3wEGEJP
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Felix the Cat dolls leaving their Acton factory, 100 years ago.
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Felix the Cat dolls leaving their Acton factory, 100 years ago.
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The mummified body of two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, also called "The sleeping beauty.” She died of pneumonia in 1920, and her distraught father had her embalmed. But here is the weirdest thing, In a 2009 National Geographic documentary, they found her eyelids moving and blue eyes shining in the dark. But how is this possible after being mummified for over a hundred years? (Time-lapse footage is here.) bit.ly/3wEGEJP
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1955. Flinders Street Station, Melbourne.

Photo source: The Argus
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George St, looking S

1893 - 2024

Then: Horse-drawn traffic clip-clops past St Andrew's Cathedral, Town Hall, and excavations for the construction of the Queen Victoria Building. The QVB would open five years later on 21 July 1898.

Now: Light rail, increased greenery, the occasional bicycle, widened pedestrian access, and opportunities to just sit and chat, occupy George St alongside three of Sydney's finest buildings.

(Fred Hardie c/- State Library of NSW/A.Pages)
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Irony as people wait in a breadline in Ohio, during The Great Depression, 1937.
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