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👨‍🚀 Alan Bean during the Apollo 12 spacewalk on the moon's 🌖 surface, 1969 @facethenation
Dog savior during the flood in Pittsburgh, March 19, 1936 @facethenation
Somewhere along the Persian Corridor. US Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the USSR on the way through a mountain pass, 1943 @facethenation
Construction of Theodore Roosevelt Dam in 1909. It was the largest masonry dam in the world for its time with a height of 280 feet (84 m) and a length of 723 feet (216 m) @facethenation
Apollonius of Perga was a Greek geometer and astronomer known for his theories on the topic of conic sections.

The work of Apollonius of Perga has had such a great impact on the development of mathematics, that he is known as "The Great Geometer". In fact, in his book Conics he introduces terms, such as parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola that are still used today.

📕 The Conica of Apollonius of Perga were translated into Arabic in 1070. These two pages form the colophon of the manuscript. The Arabic translators were Hilāl ibn Abī Hilāl al-Ḥimṣī and Thābit ibn Qurrah.

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This 1899 photo by diver and photography pioneer Louis Boutan. The first ever underwater photograph @facethenation
Shulman's Market at the corner of N & Union Streets in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, with a 1931 Chevrolet car parked in front @facethenation
🍪 The muffin delivery man, 1900s. Some of England’s first street food was sold by fellows like this, who had roam the streets, ringing a bell 🛎 and carrying their wares on their head @facethenation
William Harley and Walter Davidson, the founders of the Harley Davidson Motor Company, 1910 🏍 @facethenation
Railway to the Shāh Abdol Azīm Shrine, near Tehran, 1886 @facethenation
Indian troops at a gas mask drill during World War I, 1918 @facethenation
Persian cossack brigade in Tabriz. Russia invades northern Persia under the pretext of protecting her subjects and nation interests on March 26, 1909 @facethenation
Happy french girl and her cat ☺️🐈, 1959 @facethenation
Concert by radio in Leipzig, 1923 @facethenation
Henri Fabre became the first person to successfully pilot a seaplane over water on March 28, 1910 @facethenation
On March 29, 1881, snowdrifts in Minnesota were higher than locomotive @facethenation
Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Bearcats pulls in the rebound against the Kansas State University Wildcats, 1958 @facethenation