The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens on 5 April 1986, 1500 years after the original games ceased.

Twain is holding Tesla's experimental vacuum lamp, which is powered by a loop of wire which is receiving electromagnetic energy from a Tesla coil (not visible). Tesla's face is visible in the background.

When we think of the past, we often think of it in black and white. After all, most pictures that we’ve seen from the first half of the 20th Century are in monochrome, and because of this it’s easy to forget that color actually existed at all back then. Thanks to artist Marina Amaral however, we can now view history through a whole new lens with these stunning colorized photographs.