Recommended Tags: History. That's the one to use to place your article in this subcategory!
24 May 2019 4 minute read 6 comments geostima
So as you are likely already aware, you are currently looking at this web page using some kind of browser application, be it the conqueror Chrome, the feisty Firefox or some other window which simply makes the internet viewable on a device. We all ha...
23 May 2019 2 minute read 0 comments xglh
On January 3, 2009, Bitcoin was officially born, and every "first attempt" became a commemoration day. Yesterday was Bitcoin Pizza Day. On the day 9 years ago, a programmer bought two big pizzas with 10,000 bitcoins. Since then, every year on Ma...
23 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments kennbmondo
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the An...
22 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments ptaku
22 May The Catholic Church mentions Saint Rita of Cascia - patron of difficult and hopeless matters. The name Rita comes from the Italian name Margarita. Rita was born in 1381 in the Italian town of Rocca Porena, near Cascia in Umbria, as the only...
18 May 2019 2 minute read 1 comment kennbmondo
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria. The structure was designed...
16 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments ptaku
16 May The Catholic Church mentions Saint Isidore - Patron and keeper of farmers and the cities of Madrid and Zaragoza. Isidore was born in Madrid around 1080, but his family moved to the countryside. The family was very poor, but honest and very p...
15 May 2019 3 minute read 0 comments kennbmondo
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BCE, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple of the Doric...
15 May 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Not much stands anymore from the 1800s, though these Brick walls from an old textile mill during the Civil War still stands. I got to go behind the chainlink fencing protecting the mill with a tour guide and walked through the rooms that once were us...
14 May 2019 3 minute read 0 comments kennbmondo
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a term given to it by ancient Hellenic culture. The Hanging Gardens were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens cont...
14 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments ptaku
14 May The Catholic Church mentions Saint Matthias Apostle. From the Acts of the Apostles, it appears that Matthias was one of the first disciples of Jesus. He was chosen by the Apostles instead Judas, after his betrayal and suicide. Matthias was gra...
