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1900 - Eight Nation Alliance in China

10 Jun 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Farmer Chad

The Eight Nation Alliance was a a multi-national military coalition set up in response to the Boxer Rebellion in China.From left to right, soldiers of Britain, United States, Australia, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan....

Traveling made me choose my future

2 Jun 2019 1 minute read 0 comments salahchiva

  Maybe many say how ?? Yes travel opens up many opportunities whether job opportunities or access to many friendships I have traveled many times, discovered many places, met many friends and gained a lot of experience I also discovered myself And I...

Exploring the New Manchester Mill Ruins Part 2

26 May 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

Walking through the old ruins of this Mill from the 1800s reminds me how long we have been using bricks and mortar for building such structures. Though many parts of the structure have unique stonework and techniques that may be long lost by crafters...

How Browsers Work - A Technical Introduction

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...

Encrypting money every step of the way is a historic moment for the future

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...

The Great Pyramid of Giza - 7 Wonders of the World. Artworks by MondoWorks

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...

The patron of 22 May - Saint Rita

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...

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus - Artwork by MondoWorks

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...

The patron of 16 May - Saint Isidore

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...

The Temple of Zeus at Olympia

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...