Hala Fruit : The fruit that looks like an exploding planet.
Traditional Hawaiian Cultures (since 300 CE), use Hala Tree for medicine, dye, and food. They apply and consume the roots to treat illnesses, and braid the leaves into a variety of household items.
Hala fruit has a mildly sweet, tropical flavor that is a cross between a mango and pineapple with a distinctive banana undertone. Some people compare the taste to jackfruit. It has an enticing floral aroma that most people enjoy.
Hala fruit grows from Pandanus tectorius, a towering tree related to Southeast Asia's fragrant pandan leaf, that is native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands. It grows in the coastal lowlands typically near the edge of the ocean.
The skeletal remains of a Roman woman around 45 years of age who died near the ancient waterfront of the Roman town Herculaneum, during the eruption of. Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The skeleton, unearthed from the ruins of Herculaneum in 1982, was named the "Ring Lady" because of the emerald and ruby rings found on the woman's left hand. Two gold bracelets and gold earrings were also found by the woman's side.
This skeleton has been depicted on the cover of National Geographic magazine in May of 1984. The magazine contained an article titled 'The Dead Do Tell Tales at Vesuvius' briefly describing the “Ringed” lady and the skeletal collection found on the beach of Herculaneum.
The Orient Express is one of the few true relics we have of 'Old World' splendor.
Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated in Europe until 2009. It's best remembered as the luxury travel line that carried wealthy aristocrats from Paris to Constantinople in the Roaring Twenties.
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Presently Venice-Simplon Orient Express train, a private venture by Belmond using original CIWL carriages from the 1920s and 1930s, continues to run from London to Venice and to other destinations in Europe, including the original route from Paris to İstanbul.
Around 2700 BC, in China tea agriculture began. People in ancient Asia ate tea for centuries, perhaps even millennia, before ever consuming it as a beverage. They would nibble on leaves raw, add them to soups, greens or ferment and drink them.
Dated back to China's Shang dynasty, in which tea was consumed as a medicinal drink. An early credible record of tea drinking dated 3rd Century AD, in a medical text written by Hua Tuo.
It first became known to western civilization through Portuguese priests and merchants in China during early 16th Century AD. Drinking tea became popular in Britain during 17th Century AD. British introduced commercial tea production to India, to compete with Chinese monopoly on tea.
Seiko TV watch also known as the Seiko T001. During its launch in 1982, watch immediately caught attention of many at time. And to this day, many people are still willing to pay high sums of money to get one of these watches.
Not just a time display, the Seiko TV watch includes an interesting feature where you can watch television on your wrist. Furthermore, the watch can also last up to five hours. Uniquely, the watch version also appeared in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.
The Guinness Book of World Records in 1984 recognized the Seiko TV watch as the smallest television in the world. In terms of price, the Seiko TV watch sold for over USD 400 back then, which is equivalent to about a thousand dollars today.
Hala Fruit : The fruit that looks like an exploding planet.
Traditional Hawaiian Cultures (since 300 CE), use Hala Tree for medicine, dye, and food. They apply and consume the roots to treat illnesses, and braid the leaves into a variety of household items.
Hala fruit grows from Pandanus tectorius, a towering tree related to Southeast Asia's fragrant pandan leaf, that is native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and Pacific Islands. It grows in coastal lowlands typically near edge of ocean.
Hala fruit has a mildly sweet, tropical flavor that is a cross between a mango and pineapple with a distinctive banana undertone. Some people compare the taste to jackfruit. It has an enticing floral aroma that most people enjoy.
Caldarium; a hot room found in 'Classical Roman Baths'. Caldarium consists of a room called Hypocaust, which is heated by furnace located under floor, and walls that reflect the heat.
Hypocaust is essentially a centralized heating system that produces hot air under flooring of room, which could also be transmitted to the walls using a series of pipes.
Hypocaust was raised above ground using pilae stacks which were pillars that supported layer of tiles. Layer of concrete was laid on tiles, finished with tiles of flooring of room above. It consisted of furnace from which hot air circulated through clay tiles into rooms above.
Papyrus of Ahmose or Mathematical Rhind (1500 BC); an oldest Manuscript written in Algebra and Trigonometry.
Manuscript shows that Egyptians used first-order equations and solved them in several ways. They also know quadratic equations and solve them. They also know numerical and geometric sequences and know quadratic equations like two :
X2 + y2 = 100,
Y = 3/4 x, where x = 8, y = 6,
This equation is origin of Pythagoras theorem, a2 = b 2 + c 2, and Egyptians used to call unknown number (koom).
Pythagoras developed his mathematical theories after travelling to Egypt and learning from Egyptian priests, and this has been proven in books of Greek historians and scholars such as Farpharius of Sour, Herodotus and Thales.
Egyptians had Algebra, Trigonometry, and Geometry about 2000 years before birth of Pythagoras and about 3000 years prior to al-Khwarizmi being born.
The largest animal rock petroglyphs in the world; known as 'Dabous Giraffes', located in Air Massif, Niger.
The carvings (6m in height) are believed to have been done between 12000-7000 BC, during African Humid Period (14600-5000 years ago), when this region was less arid, and Sahara was a vast savannah, that streched thousands of miles. There are also remains of petrified wood found in the area, which gave evidence that region could sustain animal and human life.
@penguin42 researchers used accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), a form of radio carbon dating, to gather data on the minute carbon particles trapped beneath the varnish layer and the rock surface.