Category: History
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Santa exists! Believe it! (?!)
Christmas is gone and for many kids, the dream of Santa Claus was destroyed. Realizing that Santa is not real can be devastating for a kid. However psychologists clearly say that believing in Santa can be healthy for a kid. [1] [2] After all, his story is based on a TRUE story! And who brings…
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Ancient China can slide! But how?!?
Fifteenth-century Chinese engineers didn't so much reinvent the wheel as dispense with it altogether – opting to drag heavy stones for building the Forbidden City along a slippery artificial ice road instead of wheeling them. That, at least, is the upshot of the latest analysis of a 17th-century Chinese text. Such a method would be…
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Develop. Destroy. Develop. Destroy...
A nation is developing. And destroys its monuments in the process. (1) Why should we care? What is better tribute to these monuments than their total destruction in the process of progress? What good is a dead monument? Ancient people did not have "monuments"...
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Hitler & Swastika: The murder of a symbol…
Hitler did not only murder people. He also murdered a symbol. Swastika was for thousands of years a symbol of the movement of the cosmos, a symbol of good luck. Now no one can use it anymore. Now the world has stopped turning. Dark deeds have dark consequences... Can someone be brave enough? The world…
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The world as they knew it...
The world as they knew it (1). The world changes as our knowledge change. And yet it remains the same…. How can we see without seeing?
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