@Rainmaker1973
For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two
@Rainmaker1973
Clinging to her mattress through violent storms, supported with food and necessities by a ground crew, she stayed two years and eight days.
They don't come hard like this anymore. A real hero in my books 💯
@historyinmemes
Nuclear chemist Galen Winsor ate uranium live on TV to prove that the fear of radiation was exaggerated ☢️
He worked at power plants associated with the Manhattan Project.
(And died at the age of 82)
@fasc1nate
August 15th, 1961
The 19-year-old East German border guard Konrad Schumann is tasked with patrolling the construction site of the Berlin Wall.
He realizes that this could be his last chance to escape communism and jumps to freedom in Western Berlin
People always flee communism
@fasc1nate
Some pretty unusual causes of death from London (1632):
‘Suddenly’ 🤷…62’
‘Kil’d by several accidents’ 🤦♂️…46
‘Kings Evil 🤴…38
‘Piles’ 😳…1
What’s your pick of the bunch?
@creepydotorg
DID YOU KNOW? 🤔
Each king depicted on the playing cards represents a real historical figure.
Spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
@fasc1nate
Milton Hershey’s original $60 million gift in 1918, is now worth $14 billion and produces over $300 million in annual income [2016 Form 1990] much of which goes back into the Hershey community. It is one of the greatest examples of effective capitalism in American history
@fasc1nate
A soldier from East Berlin passes a flower through the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Berlin Wall, not just one but two concrete walls, spanned 27 miles and featured a "death strip" with watchtowers, anti-vehicle trenches, guard dog areas, floodlights, and trip-wire machine guns.
@Rainmaker1973
Avenue of the Baobabs, Morondava, Madagascar 🇲🇬
The centuries old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.
These giant, dry season-deciduous trees (members of the Mallow family), many of which are more than 800 years old with
@creepydotorg
Today we have a little debunking of the myth of "giants who never existed"
I present you the 18th century painting "View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum" by Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Canali, also known as Canaletto (left photo). And here on the right is a
@Rainmaker1973
Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchucks!
Speed and technique are impressive
It blew up the world at the time. To this day, no one can repeat this trick.
@creepydotorg
The photo shows an artifact that looks like a giant pan, found on August 31, 2021 by accident during road construction in Indonesia.
The bottom photo shows image from the walls of Karma-vibhanga in Borobudur Temple. The full panel consists of 3 fields. The middle panel depicts
@Rainmaker1973
Madagascar is not for beginners 😁
🐢 In the forests of Madagascar there are turtles with such fashionable colors
Apparently Balenciaga has reached into the animal world.
@Morbidful
At time 2:03 seconds of the video, the engineer of the Twin Towers, approximately 20 years before the event of 9/11, states that if a plane crashes into the Twin Towers, it cannot do any damage because it has a structure that can withstand 13 thousand tons , while the plane
کیسا عاشق ہے ترے نام پہ قرباں ہے مگر
تیری ہر بات سے انجان ہوا پھرتا ہے
شب کو شیطان بھی مانگے ہے پناہیں جس سے
صبح وہ صاحب ایمان ہوا پھرتا ہے
جانے کب کون کسے مار دے کافر کہہ کے
شہر کا شہر مسلمان ہوا پھرتا ہے
#امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور
#الیکشن_کراو_پاکستان_بچاو
@gunsnrosesgirl3
The first oranges were not orange color!
The first oranges came from Southeast Asia. They were a hybrid of tangerine and pomelo and were green color! In warmer regions such as Vietnam and Thailand, oranges are still green during the full ripening period.
@Rainmaker1973
🌊 The pufferfish has an amazing courtship ritual. The males use their fins to draw these circles with patterns. Then, they decorate them with shells and pebbles. 🌀
💞 If the female likes the landscape, she will respond to the male's advances.
🏞️ Besides its aesthetic appeal,
@Morbidful
The video of the Beirut port explosion that has hit me the hardest. A first hand perspective of what it felt like that has been circulating on social media.
@Rainmaker1973
Stroboscopic effect
The strobe light flashes a little faster than the frequency of the drops, so the drops seem to go up. If the flashing frequency were the same as the droplet frequency, the droplets would be frozen in the air in one place.
@Rainmaker1973
Chariots of the gods
Indian temples contain huge chariots made of granite, some so large that they can be seen from space. They could have used unusual technologies to move around, arousing the interest of researchers.
@Rainmaker1973
Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepuis (table-top mountain) or plateaux in South America. It is located at the junction of Venezuela 🇻🇪 Brazil 🇧🇷 and Guyana 🇬🇾
The name of Mount Roraima came from the native Pemon people. Roroi in the Pemon language means
@historyinmemes
Nikola Tesla described the creation of the modern smartphone in a 1926 interview with John B. Kennedy.
This man was basically science's Nostradamus, and he was also a clairvoyant, predicting globalized wireless communication nearly eight decades before it came to fruition.
@interesting_aIl
On the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean there is a beach so close to the airport that planes sometimes fly 10 meters above the heads of tourists.
@interesting_aIl
Robert Hansen, an FBI agent, was assigned the task of uncovering a spy within the FBI, but he turned out to be the spy himself. He had been secretly working as a double agent, passing classified information to the Soviet Union and later Russia, from 1979 until his arrest in 2001.
@creepydotorg
The Ogden Standard-Examiner of November 10, 1929, published an interview with Ralph Glidden, an archaeologist who had been excavating around California's Catalina Island for about 10 years:
"Irrefutable proof that light-skinned, fair-haired men of great stature lived on Catalina
@Morbidful
"We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency backed by gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced. .. .we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value
@ExcclesiaLatin
@historyinmemes
Every country teaches its citizens to think what they believe. I bet you would have a different opinion about them if you were born in Turkey..Think about that for a moment maybe?
@MAstronomers
You ever wondered why do "astronauts" have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Apparently it's for the best acting and performance. The Moon landing was nothing but one giant advertising charade for "Fossil fuels", made in the hollywood studio. 😁
@PhysInHistory
Library of Sakya Monastery - Tibet The library was found sealed in a 60-meter-long and 10-meter-high wall in Tibet containing 84,000 secret manuscripts (books), including 10,000 years of human history. Most of them will turn out to be Buddhist scriptures, they can also include
@gunsnrosesgirl3
Chinese craftsman Cai Guoqiang has invented and successfully launched an unusual fireworks display. The pyrotechnician named it "Stairway to Heaven", which is exactly how his invention looks like: fire stairs going up into the night sky. The Stairway to Heaven" firework was
@Rainmaker1973
Rakotzbrücke in different seasons 😍
Hidden in Kromlau’s Azalea and Rhododendron Park, just a two-hour drive southeast of Berlin, Rakotzsee (Rakotz Lake) is home to one of the most fairytale-like scenes you’ll ever see: Rakotzbrücke, a 19th-century stone bridge that creates a
@fasc1nate
In 2007 Putin met with Angela Merkel at his palace in Sochi. He brought his dog to meet Merkel who is afraid of dogs (bit by one in 90s, I think). He later said he didn’t know… lmao look at his smirk
@HasbulIah
Say, "O disbelievers,
I do not worship what you worship.
Nor are you worshippers of what I worship.
Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship.
Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship.
For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.
Al-Kafirun