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Virupaksha temple almost like Bagan in Myanmar - Hampi, Karnataka - my journey through Asia

22 May 2022 5 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Hampi, which means "champion" in English, is today just a tiny village situated in an amazing place dotted with boulders along the banks of the Tungabhadra River, but in the 14th century it was the great capital of the Vijayanagar empire. When you...

AESCHYLUS, 525 - 456 BC: The Father of Greek Tragedy

21 May 2022 8 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger - youTransgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men. These are the words of Aeschylus, the first of Ancient Greece’s great tragedians. He brought wit...

Largest Buddha and "Hell Garden" - Wat Muang Temple in Thailand - my journey through Asia

20 May 2022 3 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Great Buddha or Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin Wielki Budda czyli Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin The original Big Buddha was destroyed by the Burmese in the 18th century. The monumental statue was then located in Ayutthaya, the former Thai capital. They wan...

The Boy Who Cried “The Bubble has Finally Bursted”

19 May 2022 4 minute read 0 comments ryaine169

  When in 1991 the origin of Blockchain was traced, it was mentioned in a research paper by Dr. Stuart Haber and Dr. W. Scott Stornetta “How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document”. The term blockchain can be defined as a decentralised, cryptic database on...

The Causes of the United States Panic and Bank Run of 1819

14 May 2022 14 minute read 1 comment Probs Cheatin

In earlier sections, we examined the consequences the Revolutions of 1848 had on European politics, society, and economic structures; also how the armed conflict affects our world today. We will now travel back in time during the early 1800s and acro...

Popa Taung. Where the view of the mountain is nicer than the top - My trip around Myanmar

9 May 2022 2 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Mount Popa is an extinct volcano near the city of Bagan. This place is known primarily for the monastery located on the top. It is a sacred place for the Burmese and one of the most interesting attractions of this country. Góra Popa, to wygas...

The 40 Year Love Letter [for my mother's mother]

8 May 2022 5 minute read 0 comments MarvinScottMarvin

Her name was Sylvetta. The boys all called her “Legs.” She was born and raised in the middle of North America, practically nowhere. Nowhere that you've ever heard of, anyway. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the boys all went off to war. Ther...

Representative differences and similarities between World War I and World War II

8 May 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Mask69

The First and Second World Wars have much more in common than is popularly recognized. You can also talk about certain differences and changes with respect to destiny or the specific time. Both in the First and in the Second World War there is the ba...

(JaiChai) "Empires and Leather Straps"

2 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

The Mongols built an empire with this humble yet game-changing, technological invention: the humble stirrup.     "The Stirrup" 3D.gif   *A rare, signed, higher resolution and non-watermarked version of this image is available for download at: ht...

The Bedlam Mass Pit

1 May 2022 9 minute read 2 comments Mask69

Introduction The plague is a contagious infectious disease that had its maximum expansion in Europe during the fourteenth centuries and later, more precisely during the years 1346 and 1361, where at least a third of the European population died. This...