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NOTRE DAME - AFTER THE FIRE
NOTRE DAME - AFTER THE FIRE From a complete catastrophe, Notre Dame’s fire gave birth to an unparalleled opportunity for archaeologists and scientists to work on the building’s heritage.
By Paul Asling4 years ago in FYI
Cool Facts About The English Language That Will Probably Make You Hate It Even More
On the first day of my high school Spanish class, a girl behind me said, "Why do we have to learn Spanish? It's so much harder than English." Obviously, this tone deaf comment is exactly one that a frustrated language learner (especially one that is a teenage girl) would make. However, even I, a fellow teenage girl at the time, saw the flaw and inappropriate nature of the comment. It wouldn't be for a few years though, in my college linguistics class that I would actually learn just how wrong she was.
By Alisan Keesee4 years ago in FYI
THE TALE OF THE DEVERILL ROMAN VILLA
Have you ever fantasised about finding buried treasure? For London-based designer Luke Irwin, that dream came true when he exposed the remnants of a Roman villa in the garden of his home.
By Paul Asling4 years ago in FYI
The history of rice in Japan
The findings play an important role in the debate over how and when rice cultivation spread from central China. Rice is believed to have been cultivated along the Yangtze River in central China around 8000 BC. It is believed that rice was first brought from China to Japan via the Korean Peninsula between 300 and 100 BC.
By Sameer Boy4 years ago in FYI
The Mentality Prison
Well just in case you don’t know what mentality is then just understand that it is the way you think, and it can be different from one person to another but generally you can classify persons in different groups. You have the pessimists who always think negatively, the optimists who always think positively the narcissist and many other groups. In society, we tend to see different groups emerge based on status, you have the hardworking people who believe that everything is possible and you have the unlucky persons who feel like things are never going to work out at all. You can really see all the diversity in the way we as humans think on a daily basis, I’m not sure if we are predisposed to think in a certain way or if its the experiences we go through which shape our thinking but experiments have shown that even when you put two persons under the same conditions, their way of thinking could be totally opposite. This is to say that you can’t really mold a person’s mentality into what you want, all you can do is expose them to the right stimuli and hope for the best.
By real Jema4 years ago in FYI
Mukbangs Are Destroying YouTube
Mukbangs, videos of people eating in front of a camera, have exploded in popularity on YouTube over the last five years. But why? To find out I went to speak with some local mukbangers and experts about this growing trend. Among those interviewed were: The Famous Paul, Pueblo Bonito Burrito, and Jay-Zeezer.
By andy lawson4 years ago in FYI
The POW Who Was Shot Nine Times and Still Survived
Can we cheat death? Probably not. But one man came close. His name is Wenceslao Moguel. Moguel was tried and sentenced to death after being accused of being a rebel during the Mexican revolution.
By Prateek Dasgupta4 years ago in FYI
The Gathering Storm: The Forces Roiling the World of Anne Boleyn By Howard Bloom
What was the role of sex in the romance of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIIIth? Did their courtship do what Pierre Louis de Maupertuis decrees—finding the shortest distance between two points? Or did it do something far more ambitious? Did it create the longest distance between two points? Did it harness the hurricanes of history? Or, to put it differently, is the story of Anne and Henry simple and thrifty or expensive and complex? You be the judge.
By Jimmy Stars World4 years ago in FYI
The Supreme Master, Ching Hai & Her Cult of Quan Yin
The Supreme Master, Ching Hai & Her Cult of Quan Yin Ching Hai, aka the Supreme Master, is a millionaire businesswoman behind a global chain of vegan restaurants called Loving Hut. According to the University of Oxford political science professor Patricia Thornton, the origin of Ching Hai's fortune is unknown, but I have an idea. More about that later.
By Cynthia Varady4 years ago in FYI
LIFE INSIDE A MEDIEVAL BROTHEL
In the primary stages of civilisation, when people learned to trade, they soon recognised they could trade commodities for sex. And a scheme of exploitation was born and still exists to this day. In medieval times, the world became more civilised and cities and towns were growing fast. It’s where the idea of brothels took form and began one of the utmost injustices done to women.
By Paul Asling4 years ago in FYI
The History of Coffee
If there's one thing that can safely be said about coffee, it is that the world simply cannot get enough of it. Coffee beans have been a driving part of many economies for centuries and their use has spread throughout the entire planet.
By andy lawson4 years ago in FYI
History of New Year’s Day
HISTORY OF NEW YEAR’S DAY We have the ancient Romans to thank for celebrating New Year’s Day on January 1. It wasn’t always that way. Previous civilizations celebrated it in March to observe the “new year” of growth and fertility.
By Bill Petro4 years ago in FYI