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Ancestor of the Blockchain

20 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Chriss

Hello everyone!  Blockchain: Protocol and Institutional Technology as we know it is relatively new in our modern history. But if we take the time to look back thousands of years, we can find a similar Protocol. Even though technological advances were...

Castles in Poland - small but happy - Castle in Zawada

19 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

    A neo-Gothic castle in the village of Zawada on the Zawadka River, on the Rzeszów-Tarnów route. Nothing unusual, but it captivates. Only one of the four cylindrical towers has survived. A chapel, a brick gate and a farm building hav...

🇮🇪 ST. PATRICK'S DAY, 17th MARCH - Celebrating Ireland

17 Mar 2021 1 minute read 5 comments YouveBeenGreeked

While I'm working on my next Greek history blog (it is coming, don't worry), and since British history isn't my specialty (yet?), I thought I'd share a few videos about Ireland and Saint Patrick, since today is Saint Patrick's Day! This is just a one...

Jumping Over Fire | Persian Ceremony | On the Last Wednesday of The Year

17 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr

Chaharshanbe Suri (Wednesday Fire Feast) is one of the Iranian festivals that is held on the evening of the last Tuesday of the year (Esphand) and Wednesday night, and lighting a fire and jumping over it is its main feature. https://en.wikipedia.or...

Bavaria 1 kreuzer, 1859

16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Andrii Androshchuk

1 kreuzer, 1859, Kingdom of Bavaria (1806 - 1918) period of the reign of king Maximilian II (1848 ~ 1864). BASIC INFORMATION Krause number: KM# 858 Country: Bavaria Denomination of the coin: 1 kreuzer Years of minting: 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862,...

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia

15 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoCelt97

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk is a sprawling true story of how European explores came to Central Asia in search of buried empires and treasures in the old cities...

Weekend Nature Walk: A glacial lake and a forest covered in artist's bracket

15 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

I had another free day this weekend and decided to head out to a forest reserve I had never visited before. The reserve has mixed stands of pine and hardwood that ring along the slopes and valleys that border the reserve's central lake. The undulati...

Hele Mali | The Sea Shanty of Black Persian Sailors & Fishermen

14 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr

 The song " Hele Mali ", a famous traditional performance of the "Rastak" group, which promotes Iranian folk music from all over the country, in fact, is the sea shanty of the fishermen and sailors in southern Iran who sing it while working rhythmica...

The Reign of Empress Rachel: Crusader Kings 3, AAR #11

13 Mar 2021 10 minute read 0 comments bengy

The Eleventh of the After Action Reports (AAR) following my direction of the Irish Empire, tracing the dynasty of the Briain dynasty through the Middle Ages. The previous AARs can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7,...

Happy Song of Botorai | Persian Folk Music of Rastak Band

13 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr

The story of the Rastak group began in the summer of 1997 when a creative Persian musician named Siamak Sepehri started a band with the help of music students and young researchers, all of whom had concerns about preserving and disseminating Iranian...