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2022-05-26 23:58:12 Floating Market

This is a market where goods are sold from boats. The photo shows such a market in Banjarmasin, a city in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, in November 2016.

The floating market is a reflection of the culture of the Banjarmasin people and is a major attraction for tourists visiting South Kalimantan. Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-26 23:50:52 The Lighthouse of Alexandria

The lighthouse allowed ships to approach the harbor without much trouble, and the observation point on top of the unique construction made it possible to monitor the waters and notice the enemy in time.

The height of the ancient lighthouse was 140 meters.The Alexandria Lighthouse was built on the east coast of the small island of Faros near Alexandria, the main seaport of Egypt, built by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.It is also known in history as the Faros Lighthouse. Such a large-scale construction required enormous resources. Not only financial and labor, but also intellectual. Ptolemy I solved this problem rather quickly. Just at that time he conquered Syria, enslaved the Jews and took them to Egypt. He subsequently employed some of them to build a lighthouse (in 299 B.C.).

Thus, a truce, a huge amount of manpower, and other favorable circumstances, enabled him to begin construction of the grandiose wonder of the world. Although the exact date of the beginning of th Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-25 08:31:11 Samurai

Samurai (Jap. 侍, also used in Japanese as "bushi" (武士)) - in feudal Japan, secular male feudal lords ranging from large ruling princes (daimyo) to petty nobles. Although the words "samurai" and "bushi" are very close in meaning, "bu" (warrior) is a broader concept and does not always refer to a samurai. An analogy is often drawn between the samurai and European medieval chivalry, but this comparison is largely incorrect.

The word "samurai" itself comes from an ancient indefinite form of the verb "to serve" (Jap 侍ふ saburau); that is, a samurai is a human servant. Samurai were not only warrior-knights. They were both bodyguards of their daimyo and at the same time his servants in everyday life.

The main weapons of the samurai were the two Japanese swords, the daisyo. In the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries these were the katana and wakizashi. In addition, the samurai had to wield a long bow. The samurai's armor consisted of many plates tightly fitting together. Открыть/Комментировать

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2022-05-24 20:00:01 ​ 20-centimeter lashes

A Chinese woman has grown 20-centimeter lashes and broke the world record she set earlier. On May 20, 2021 Guinness Book of Records specialists measured the lashes of Yu Jianxia and fixed a new world record. On average, the length of her eyelashes was 20 centimeters, but the longest eyelash on the upper eyelid of the left eye was 20.5 centimeters long.

In 2016, a Chinese woman entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the first time as the owner of the longest lashes in the world. At the time, they were more than 12 centimeters long. "I realized that my eyelashes were constantly growing, in 2015. They were gradually getting longer and longer. I went to doctors to find out why my lashes were longer than other people's. They couldn't explain it and were amazed," Jianxia said. She added that she never uses mascara or eyeliner - her long lashes make her eyes look spectacular even without makeup.

Yu tried to find a scientific explanation for what was happening and looked for a reason in genetics. But none of her relatives have such long eyelashes. Then Jianxia reasoned that her peculiarity was a gift from Buddha. Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-24 18:00:14 A challenge for people with an IQ above 125

How many animals did you see in the picture? Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-24 14:00:01 ​ The world's smallest skyscraper

In 1912 oil was found in the vicinity of Wichita Falls, causing a sharp influx of settlers into the city. In addition to living quarters, there was a need for office buildings. Then engineer J. McMahon proposed the design for a building 480 feet (about 146 meters) high, asking $200,000 for the work. A year later construction was completed, but the building was only 12 meters tall. It turned out that the engineer had specified the height in inches instead of feet in the design, which the customers did not pay attention to. As a result, the investors' attempts to get their money back through the court were unsuccessful.

The building initially irritated residents, but in the 1920s it gained some notoriety through a mention in Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not! At the same time it was called "The World's Smallest Skyscraper". Meanwhile, oil reserves near the city were depleted, and the Great Depression finally undermined the city's economy. For several years the building was not used at all. The house many times changed owners, there were offices, then hair salons, then cafes. Repeatedly the building was planned to be dismantled, but the citizens began to actively advocate its preservation. In 1986, the "skyscraper" was given to the Wichita County Heritage Society. Открыть/Комментировать

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2022-05-24 09:44:37 ​ History of the telephone

The first telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.Before electromagnetic telephones were invented, there were mechanical acoustic devices to transmit speech and music over a greater distance. This distance was greater than that of ordinary direct speech. The earliest mechanical telephones were based on transmitting sound through pipes or other physical media.

The acoustic tin can telephone, or "lover's telephone," has been known for centuries. A classic example is a children's toy made by connecting the bottoms of two paper cups, metal cans or plastic bottles with a tight string.

For several years in the late 1800s, acoustic telephones were sold commercially as a competitor to the electric telephone.

Talking handsets have long been common, especially in buildings and aboard ships, and they are still in use today. Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-23 21:06:36 ​ Runic Stone

Although the largest number of rune stones left behind by the Vikings in the IX-XI centuries, the oldest rune stones dated to the IV century, the most recent - the XIX.

Most of the rune stones are in Scandinavia, the rest are scattered in places visited by the Scandinavians during the Viking Age. Berezan runic stone of XI century was found on the island of Berezan near the Dnieper-Bug estuary.

Runic stones often had images on them, but they should not be confused with the purely pictorial stones, where there were only images. Открыть/Комментировать