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This ancient Egyptian cat case may have at one point housed a mummified cat. It is constructed out of bronze and dates back to Egypt's Ptolemaic era - around 300 B.C.
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The M28 "Davy Crockett" analag scope. In the age of pre-digital targeting systems, coordinates had to be input manually into this scope before firing an M388 warhead.
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The full Eremotherium Giant Ground Sloth skeleton on display at the Charleston Museum.
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The B-25 GF-2's navigator compartment- located right behind the pilot and copilot.
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This is where a B-25's bombardier would have sat during a flight. A 30mm machine gun is mounted for defense, and below that is a Norden bomb-sight.
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The B-25 GF-2's cockpit- showing the pilot and copilot positions as well as the instruments. Located just aft of the cockpit is the navigator's compartment.
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Check out a ghost from the Second World War, once lost, but now has a home at Owens Field Airport in Columbia, South Carolina. This B-25C is the only known intact aircraft remaining from the fleet...
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Fig Island Fig 1 (Ring Complex) Fig 2 (Hexagon) Fig 3 (Crescent)
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Anyone who has flown over the Edisto region of South Carolina may have noticed some unusual ring-shaped structures in the marshes below. These "shell rings" constructed by Native Americans thousands...