Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Monday, November 7, 2011
Strange Deaths in History
2 posts from the outside source in 2007 (credit to original writers!). Maybe there are colleagues who are able to post the original, original is 40's cause of death, but here I chose 23 of them the most bizarre.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Curse of Tutankhamen
In 1922, a Wealthy British man named Howard Carter discovered the burial site of King Tutankhamen's burial site in the Valley of Kings. There are many Valuable Relics of gold, items, and even foods That are buried in this location.
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history,
Mysterious,
Mystery,
The Curse of Tutankhamen,
Tomb
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Nostradamus and the Prediction
No matter how people talk about Nostradamus and astrology, prophecy books have been reprinted for over 400 years.
The following is the prophecy of Nostradamus.
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history,
Nostradamus,
Nostradamus and the Prediction,
Prediction,
World
The Lost City of Petra
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt decided he wanted to be an explorer. Born in Switzerland in 1784, he was twenty years old when he managed to get himself hired by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. As part of his preparation to explore the western parts of that continent, the Association decided to have him spend two years in Syria preparing for the trip by learning the Arabic language. Burckhardt hoped that if he could master the language and customs there, he might be able to pass himself off as an Arab and avoid the suspicions and mistrust that western visitors to that region often encountered.
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7 Wonders,
Ancient 7 Wonders,
history,
Petra,
The Lost City of Petra,
World
10 City of Lost Civilizations
This is the 10 cities that ever existed, but in the civilization whichlater disappeared. whatever it is, let us refer to ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Light House of Alexandria
This light house of Alexandria was one of the wonders among all the seven wonders of the world, which was constructed to serve a practical purpose. Besides being a marvelous example of architectural elegance, it ensured a safe return for the sailors to the Great Harbor.
THE STATUE OF ZEUS
The statue of the Greek god Zeus at Olympia, one of the world's greatest statues, was created in about 450 BC by the renowned Greek sculptor Phidias. It is in honor of this god that the Ancient Olympic games were held. During those times truce is declared and wars are stopped. Players and athletes from all over the places traveled to a place in Greece called Peloponnesus.
The Temple of Artemis
1100 A.D.: A troop of Crusaders stops at a muddy little village in Asia Minor. Their leader looks around. Confused he dismounts. This place is not what he expected. He read in the ancient texts that this was a large seaport with many ships docked in its bay. It isn't. The sea is almost three miles away. The village is located in a swamp. There are no ships to be seen. The leader accosts a nearby man.
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7 Wonders,
Ancient 7 Wonders,
history,
Temple,
The Temple of Artemis,
World
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Your fearful form is the work of the deathless gods. To spare the flat and fertile lands they placed you in your depression. A rocky island from which they banished the sand. They placed you as a neighbor to the pyramids...Who vigilantly watches the blessed Osiris... -Inscription from the second century A.D.
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7 Wonders,
Ancient Egypt,
history,
Sphinx,
The Riddle of the Sphinx,
World
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The city of Babylon, under King Nebuchadnezzar II, must have been a wonder to the ancient traveler's eyes. "In addition to its size," wrote Herodotus, a Greek historian in 450 BC, "Babylon surpasses in splendor any city in the known world."
The Mausoleum of Maussollos
The famous tomb of the king Maussollos of Halicarnassus known as the Mausoleum of Maussollo , which served as tomb for the satrap (a local governor) of the Persian empire and his wife (who was also his sister) was considered by the ancient Greeks one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
7 Wonders of the Ancient World
This is the seven wonders of the world that never existed in ancient times....
Khufu's Great Pyramid
It's 756 feet long on each side, 450 feet high and is composed of 2,300,000 blocks of stone, each averaging 2 1/2 tons in weight. Despite the makers' limited surveying tools, no side is more than 8 inches different in length than another, and the whole structure is perfectly oriented to the points of the compass. Even in the 19th century, it was the tallest building in the world and, at the age of 4,500 years, it is the only one of the famous "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" that still stands. Even today it remains the most massive building on Earth. It is the Great Pyramid of Khufu, at Giza, Egypt.
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7 Wonders,
Ancient Egypt,
Egypt,
history,
Khufu's Great Pyramid,
Pyramid
Saturday, October 22, 2011
The Tower of Babel
Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly."
Stonehenge and the Rings of Rock
Stonehenge maybe, in many peoples' minds, the most mysterious place in the world. This set of concentric rings and horseshoe shapes on the empty Salisbury Plain, is, at the age of 4,000 years, one of the oldest, and certainly best preserved, megalithic (that means large, often ancient, stone) structures on Earth.
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7 Wonders,
history,
Stonehenge and the Rings of Rock,
World
Friday, October 21, 2011
Superstition A King
He strongly believe in superstition. Although in his day the case is not something strange superstitions. But for a king Yemeni ruler of the Arabian peninsula, such as Hamid Yehia, trust it sounded odd. Both among its people and its neighbors.
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history,
Mysterious,
Superstition,
Superstition A King,
World
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (John F Kennedy / JFK)
A number of documents and transcripts of conversations about the planned assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was found. Will the mystery and the mastermind behind the murder was revealed?
Ba'albek
Ba'albek is one of the most mysterious archaeological sites in the world, because many of his puzzles that have not been successful only disini.Salah unanswered is how the builders move and arrange the stones block weighing 1200 tons
Ancient Model Aircraft
Are the odds prehistory of the concept of modern aircraft can only be found in Egypt and India alone? the answer is of course not.
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Ancient Model Aircraft,
history,
Model Aircraft,
Technology,
Temple,
World
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Michelangelo
Bounaroti Michelangelo (1475-1564) is a sculptor, painter and builder of the famous Italian Renaissance, a great artist is versatile and well rounded. Expertise in the field of sculpting, painting, building, and poetry gathered together at the same time on him.
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