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This old ginkgo tree located at Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in Zhongnan Mountain region of China. The temple was built in Tang dynasty in 628, with more than 1,400 years history. It’s said this ginkgo tree is planted by Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong himself.

This photograph shows the frozen corpse of sailor John Torrington.

Born in 1815, Torrington was a member of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, which embarked on a perilous voyage in 1845 with the goal of navigating the Northwest Passage—a fabled maritime route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Archipelago.

The Franklin Expedition, led by Sir John Franklin, was one of the most ambitious Arctic explorations of the 19th century. It set out with two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and a crew of 129 men, including Torrington, who served as a Royal Marine. The expedition's objective was to chart the Northwest Passage, but it became infamous for its disastrous outcome. The expedition was eventually stranded in the icy waters of the Arctic, and all members of the crew died.

John Torrington's story was brought to light during a search for the missing Franklin Expedition. In 1984, researchers discovered the remains of Torrington, along with those of other crew members, in a grave site on King William Island. The remains were remarkably well-preserved due to the extreme cold and the permafrost conditions of the Arctic.

The crypt of the Basilica-Cathedral of Saint-Denis, north of Paris serves as the birthplace of the divine light of gothic stained glass windows and is the main necropolis of French royalty.

This medieval crypt has the remains among many others from Louis XIV and Marie-Antoinette.