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Have a Morning Stroll | a New Route & an Unusual Tomb ahead

9 Feb 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr

My hiker friends promised to take me to see a new tomb at dawn. So, cheerful and curious, while the sun was still a long way from full sunrise, we set off on a dark road. Sometimes I walked and sometimes I ran. The morning air was pleasant. I enjoye...

The end of the end of a Republic

7 Feb 2022 15 minute read 7 comments Probs Cheatin

The next historical event that we will use to illustrate the powers of the money changers will be the creation of the Roman empire and the falling of the Roman Republic including the life and death of Julius Caesar. The story of Caesar's life and dea...

Chernobyl and Pripyat (Прип'ять), a ghost town

5 Feb 2022 4 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Pripyat is the so-called "nuclear power plant" - this is the name of the cities in Russia where the majority of residents work in the nuclear power industry. The "atom city" was built during the Soviet Union and was the 9th "atom city" in present-d...

The Amityville Horror's Review - RyanReynoldsChallenge (14/48)

4 Feb 2022 5 minute read 2 comments Ykretz

The Amityville Error I don't know how this is humanly possible to do 2 of the worst movies in the world in a row. And to be honest, Blade Trinity had way more qualities than this one. After a long time trying to convince my Girlfriend to watch this m...

Historical background to Ukrainian crisis

4 Feb 2022 1 minute read 0 comments apollo354

  First, let’s go back a little bit in history to understand the current situation. At the end of the cold war, the USSR was divided between the previous soviet republics which made sense for most of Eastern Europe with important exceptions like Bela...

Borobudur Temple or "Temple Hill" - my trip around Indonesia - Java

30 Jan 2022 4 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Late discovery Późne odkrycie The existence of the temple was found out only in 1814, when, on the initiative of the British governor Thomas Stamford, Raffles was discovered. During his trip around Java, he heard about a great structure hidden...

Life has not changed here for centuries - Jaisalmer Fort, Rajasthan, India - my travels in India

27 Jan 2022 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Golden Fort in Jaisalmer Złoty fort w Jaisalmer Jaisalmer is a small city located in Rajasthan in the Thar Desert. As it is in the desert, there is not much entertainment. There is a magnificent golden fort, one of the largest in the world, and a...

The Powerfull Symbol

26 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Alther

  From time to time, the existence of human life is filled with various symbols that can represent something that exists in human life. Whether in terms of religion, science, shortening sentences, or representing symbols of all kinds of other things....

Why the Most Prominent Greek Thinkers of All Time Were Highly Critical of Democracy

26 Jan 2022 3 minute read 4 comments Zacharias

  25 January 2022: In the dialogues of famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato, significant challenges are presented to the fundamental political concept of democracy. In book six of Plato's Republic, Plato gives the accounts of Socrates on why democr...

A Brief History Of The Incredible, Dependable Zipper!

22 Jan 2022 3 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

It's hard to believe but a little thing we generally take for granted didn't actually go mainstream until the late 1930s and onward. This little thing originally known as the 'Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure' in its 1851 patent,  morphed into...