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A Piece of Homework from Mesopotamia, Three and a Half Thousand Years Old
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One of Leonardo da Vinci's Favourite Inventions
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The most famous gates in Germany after the Brandenburg Gate are the Holstentor of Lübeck, fifteenth century (Lübeck was the capital of the Hanseatic League)
The most famous gates in Germany after the Brandenburg Gate are the Holstentor of Lübeck, fifteenth century (Lübeck was the capital of the Hanseatic League). Thirty cannon were mounted upon them, not one of which ever fired a shot
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Science
A Ring with a Dial from a Chinese Tomb, Four Hundred Years Old
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · The East · Geography · Heritage
In the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, statues of the Buddha, presumably 55 m, 37 m, 13 m, 5 m and 2 m in height, were carved into the cliffs
In the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, statues of the Buddha, presumably 55 m, 37 m, 13 m, 5 m and 2 m in height, were carved into the cliffs. All of them were destroyed by the Taliban "as they were objects of worship, which Islam forbids"
NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Heritage · Society
The world community, which protested loudly against the destruction of cultural heritage sites, could do nothing to stop the Taliban from blowing up a unique complex of Greco-Buddhist art
NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Faith · The East · Heritage
Buddha statues in Afghanistan, erected in the 6th century and blown up by the Taliban in 2000
1931, archaeologists beside a statue of the Buddha in the Afghan desert. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were raised in the 6th century. The largest of them, at 55 metres, was the tallest statue in the world. In 2000 the statues were blown up by the Taliban
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The Japanese Mark the Anniversary of a Surrender in the Russo-Japanese War
The Japanese mark the anniversary of a surrender in the Russo-Japanese War. For Shintoists, all countrymen who have fallen in Japan's wars are objects of veneration
NB! · Geography · Heritage · New York · Nature
The bed of the Niagara has been reinforced, the floor of the falls cleared, and the natural monument is at present under no threat
NB! · Geography
In 1973 it was decided to divert the water in the lower part of the river and remove the stones from below, the previous task having proved impracticable
NB! · Archive · Geography · Science · Nature
Engineers stopped the Niagara River before the falls in 1969 to clear rocks from its bed
In 1969 the Niagara River was stopped just above the Falls. Engineers intended to clear the riverbed of rocks, the accumulation of which threatened the very existence of the waterfall. In this, however, they did not succeed.